Comment 36 for bug 170369

Something that haven't been commented in this report is that if multiple pages are implemented, Inkscape could compete as well in the "presentations" field (like PowerPoint alternative): If all pages can be exported as PDF it can be combined with other tools (like http://impressive.sourceforge.net/). There is also a very interesting project about presentations using Inskcape: http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/.
Also, all pages could be exported as APNG, SMIL, etc. to create animations. I think this particular feature could be really useful for many animators and web designers.
I also think that only a simple interface showing "miniature" pages at the bottom (or as a list) can be created to jump from one document to another (simulating pages) in a single window. The only problem is that saving the whole document would generate several files. All files could be stored in a single directory, serialized. In that way, when opening the first file, it could search on the directory for consecutive files and ask if it should be loaded as a "multiple page" document.
My suggestion is to work first on the interface (with the approach which I just explained). Later versions, could implement saving it into a single SVG file.
I also tried this plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-pages/, but I don't feel that is the approach it should be taken (using layers), which IMHO is not easy to manage.