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We have to set the Acobat version to Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4) in our PDF files.
The PDF Version properties change even after they are set using any of the following 3 methods:
1.      Document > Reduce File Size and then Save As
          (In my past experience - if you only “save” the file, it doesn’t save some of the settings)
2.      Also set them using - Advanced   > PDF Optimizer and then Save As.
3.      These properties were originally set in the Adobe PDF Settings in the Word file before the PDF was created:
Compatibility : Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)
When I close the file and re-open, the version is not what I set – it doesn’t save.
Is there something that has to be set in Adobe to save the PDF Version property??
I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro v9.
Thanks -- Karen

If you use Save or Save as (except the new AAx move of Reduce File Size and PDF Optimize to the save as menu) you will get a current version based on your Acrobat. To get a prior version you have to either create it with compatibility set in the print driver or PDF Maker or you have to used Reduce File Size or PDF Optimize to get a prior version. Maybe that is why they moved those two items to the save as menu so folks would realize that option.
If you save the file (other than with one of the 2 options mentioned) the version will revert to your current version. It sounds like you may be doing that in some way and losing the type. You can check by opening the PDF in a text editor (like WORD) and looking at the first characters of the file -- should read PDF 1.4. If it does, then you were successful. Of course, do not save the file from the text editor.
Since you are using AA9, DO NOT use Save As. Use either the Reduce File Size under the Document menu or the PDF Optimize under the Advanced>Print Production menu as I recall. Then close Acrobat, but do not save again. If you do, you will be right back to an AA9 document.

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