Printing to Acrobat 5.0 from Indesign CS3

Hi
I dont get it!! Do i need to install the entire Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (1.4) when wanting to print to Acrobat 5.0 from Indesign when choosing .ppd?
thanks!

Yes i just want to make a pdf 1.4 file.
When choosing print in ID i want to choose
Printer: Postscript file
PPD:PDF 5.0 (1.4)
But do i need to install the entire Acrobat 5 to do that? Ore can i just install Adist5.ppd and thats it? And how do i do that?

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