Acrobat 9 implementation of PDF Spec

Hello,
Acrobat and Reader 9 have been available for a while now, but the documentation of their implementation of the PDF specification is not. At least I cannot find it on
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
It is still the old 8.1 documentation. When will the new Acrobat 9 one be online? I am especially interested in the rich media and 3D additions to the ISO standard.
Alex

Hi Don,
Have you tried updating to v 9.5.5 and checked.
Which OS and browser are you using?
Have you checked the behavior with a new sample form on the browser?
Regards,
Rave

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Thank you for sharing with us (for future reference, there is an ideal forum for discussion of PDF spec issues here): http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/pdf_language_and_specifications
You are right that the document belongs to ISO. A final standard is just that - final. There is, so far as I know, no provision for corrections to it except a new standard. In fact people have been sitting round a table for years now working on ISO 32000-2. I imagine it will fix all the typos, and introduce new ones to confuse and annoy developers for years to come.
In fact, it's entirely possible that this is fixed in ISO 32000-1. I believe Adobe have the right only to post the final draft not the actual standard. If you want to put down your CHF 238 you can purchase the actual standard and compare. (But still, your only mechanism for correcting it would be to join your national standards body and participate in the 32000-2 deliberations. Not that that is a bad thing to do.)

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found a possible error in the pdf spec PDF 32000-1:2008:
page 385, Table 165 – Annotation flags
8 bit position - Locked (PDF 1.4)
In pdf 1.4 there was no flag 'locked' at the 8bit position.
(there are also lots of spelling mistakes but don't want to nit-pick ;-)

Actually, that is correct. As reflected in the PDF 1.5 reference, Section H.3, Notes on 8.4.2:
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Dear everyone
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