How to open a PDF with Acrobat 5?

I'm trying to open a pdf. I get an error message saying file is damaged and can't be opened but I have no problem opening  it with Adobe ReaderX. What is wrong?
Thanks!

There's something in it that isn't comaptible with Acrobat 5 or it would open it. I know Acrobat 5 is what you have, but frankly, it's obsolete. You can download a 30 day trial of Acrobat XI and open it, then save it as Optimized for 4 and up, but if you plan to continue using Acrobat... you're going to need a version that's newer than 2003.
That shows the Reader versions that went along with Acrobat (because the Acrobat downloads themselves aren't available anymore).
5.0 and 5.05 were designed for oprating systems that haven't even been supported by Microsoft since 2006.

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