Acrobat Designer 7

I have a form created in AA Designer 7 that is not backward compatible with Acrobat 5 or older versions of Acrobat Reader. When you open it with AA5 you are prompted to upgrade (given a link) and that is not an option. The form will open and I've tried just to save it in AA5 with the hope of "down-grading" it but AA5 will crash when I do that.
Question: Anyway to make it backward compatible?

Based on the comments of the others, recreate the form using AcroForms (these are the form tools under the TOOLS>Advanced Editing menu). When you save, use Reduce File Size or PDF Optimizer rather than the save buttons. Those allow you to make the form backward compatible. Don't bother with any of the AA7 specific form features or they will be deleted when made backward compatible.

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Hi slightlyleft,
Thanks for your post. However, this Forum is meant to discuss
issues related to acrobat.com and not acrobat. To post an issue
related to acrobat please visit the acrobat forum :
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbeda8b/
You may also open a web case with Adobe Support. To do so,
please visit the following link :
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/support/index.cfm?event=portal

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It looks like I scanned over your email a little too quickly and missed a
VERY important point. You mention that your form will be "bundled with Acrobat 7.0 Professional". This is VERY important.
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