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I'm using Acrobat 6.0 on Windows 2000 and have some questions regarding two issues.
Issue 1: I am confused about how to use 6.0 to generate files that are compatible with older versions of Acrobat. I've configured the Distiller in the following two ways:
1) Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings > General > Compatibility > Acrobat 3.0 (PDF 1.2)
2) Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings > Advanced > Save Adobe PDF settings inside PDF file
Question: Are these the only settings that I need to configure to ensure that people with older versions of Acrobat can open the files that I generate with Acrobat 6.0?
Issue 2: After configuring the settings as described above, I created a PDF file whose properties are "PDF Version 1.2 (Acrobat 3.x)".
The document contains about 500 URLs, so I then selected "Advanced > Links > Create from URLs in Document".
After I did this and re-checked the properties of the document, I noticed that they changed. They now read "PDF Version 1.5 (Acrobat 6.x)"
Questions:
. Does this mean that the reader will need a newer version of Acrobat to open this particular document?
. What is the general rule regarding compatibility and this particular feature? (If I optimize this file to be compatible with V4 and later, will the links still work for people with that version of Acrobat? What about people with V3.0? Will the links work for them?)
(I hate to ask these questions but I can't find the answers otherwise and can't have multiple versions of Acrobat on my PC to test these files.)
Thanks for any help. Barbara
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