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I'm a software developer/tester and I'm currently testing a new software we are using to manipulate/upload PDF files to our website. The software opens the PDF, counts the number of pages, displays the page numbers in a listbox, then lets users select which pages from the original document they would like to upload as a new document.
That is working just fine.
Where I could use some help is getting sample .PDF files created in Adobe 9, 10, 11, etc (1.7 ext 1, 3, 5 ,etc). I want to test each version because we've had issues with a previous 3rd party software where it would not handle later versions (anything past 8, I believe). I have Adobe 8.1 on my development machine right now and unfortunately I need to keep it the same version to handle PDF creation for other projects which can't handle the later versions.
I've googled and googled and there doesn't seem to be a site that just has sample PDF files formatted in the various versions. Can anyone point me in the right direction or host a few small PDF files? If possible it would be better if they were at least 2 pages so I can test the extract pages feature.
Thanks,
James

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