Importing Adobe PDF files

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-656ca .html

Here's the way I deal with a Multi-Page PDF that I would like to edit in Illustrator:
1) open the PDF in Acrobat Pro, then extract all pages as single files to a folder of your choice: View >Tools > Pages... Extract; or use the Tools Panel ;
2) then open the pages that need changes in Illustrator, drag and drop multiple if you want; save your changes; *
3) then go back to Acrobat and "File > Create > Combine Files into a Single PDF", selecting all of your single pages as the source.
* If you need to see your pages easily without having to open each one individually, try using Bridge with a large thumbnail setting

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