Backward Compatibility of Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended

Question

if I make a pdf with a swf or mov. file in Acrobat Pro Extended, can someone with Acrobat 6 or 7 see those features when they open it up?
Where is there a chart for these version differences on the website. I could not find it readily.

Answer 1

It depends. How are you inserting the mov/swf file in Acrobat 9?
Once you click the insert video/flash button in Acrobat Pro Extended, you'll see a dialog with lot of text (read it :-)). Essentially, by default the .mov would be converted to flash video and embedded in PDF file. This would be viewable only in Acrobat/Reader 9 and users on a lower version will get a message to update their program. On the plus side, the video would be played natively by Acrobat/Reader 9 and users would not need any player like Quicktime installed to view the video.
On the same dialog, there is an option (link) to "create legacy multimedia content". If you choose that option you can create files with video that can be viewed using Reader 5/6 but would require user's machine to have a native video player installed.