Question about making pdfs from Illustrator files

Hi, can someone tell me how to solve the following problem? I am preparing pdfs that will be loaded onto a website. At the moment, I make pdfs of each Illustrator file (corresponding to each page of the document). Our current IT guy then processes the pdfs so that when someone accesses them on the website, they can simply scroll down from one page to the next. We are changing our IT set up, however, and our new IT guy suggests that it would speed things up if we could prepare a single pdf file that contains all the pdfs relating to a single document. Does anyone know if there is the facility to do this within Illustrator? (We seem to remember it could be done in the old Freehand software.) Many thanks

Since artboards were introduced in CS4 you can create multipage pdfs directly from Illustrator.
Tiling pages in Illustrator makes a single page pdf of all your pages, so stay away from that.
Otherwise you would go into acrobat and stitch them together in either a pdf or pdf portfolfio file.

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