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I've been having problems creating PDFs that can be opened in Acrobat 5. While using InDesign CS4, I'm trying to print to the Adobe PDF driver using the Press Quality setting, which as it states "can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 and later." However, when someone tries to open the resulting PDFs in Acrobat 5, they get a message saying "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." They open just fine in Acrobat 9.
I have been able to export to a PDF and get it to open successfully in Acrobat 5, but unfortunately this is not an option with one file I'm working on (I need to print color separations as a PDF and then pull it into PitStop Pro to make adjustments). Does anybody have any ideas as to why Acrobat 5 isn't able to read these PDFs?
Running Windows Vista Business with SP1 on a Lenovo with an Intel Core2 Duo processor and 3GB of RAM.
Thanks.

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