Question before I purchase

I am looking to purchase Adobe Ilustrator. I currently have Adobe Acrobat Pro on my computer. Do I need to have the Acrobat Pro there? Or can I give it to a friend to use?

Question before I purchase

If you will be needing to make a multiple page document of pdf files, you will be needing

Acrobat Pro. Illustrator can open one pdf file page but it stops there.

Question before I purchase

Thank you.

Illustrator can open a multiple page pdf with a script and there are multiple page pdf have been something you can do with Illustrator for many versions
in CS 4 it is much easier since it has Multiple art boards, which can behave like multiple pages.

However do not give Acrobat Pro to your friend you may have very good use for it especially since it has a good integration with Illustrator.

Just to thow in another vote: If you do print-centric stuff, Acrobat Pro is a real life saver, so by all means, keep it around. Illustrator tries its best, but since it isn't a page layout program after all, you will find you need to do some things in Acro.

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