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I just purchased Acrobat 9.0 Pro. We have a workgroup of 7 staff, 3 use Acrobat 5.0, 2 Acrobat 8.0 and 1 - Acrobat 9.0 Pro. The issue is that when we use 9.0 and try and save docs, then those working in 5.0 cannot open them. We have tried everything, optimisation PDF/X/A/E, etc. Still nothing, those using 5.0 cannot open the 9.0 saved documents. It states that the files have been damaged. Is there anything that can be done? Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Yes, the natural answer maybe to upgrade everyone to 9.0, but I don't wish to. One of the main reasons is that many of our clients do not have 9.0 reader.
Any advice?

I had the same problem when I installed Acrobat 9.1.2 ... others with Acrobat 5.0 received the "damaged" message trying to open the files. I found this was fixed by re-saving the file in Acrobat 9.1.2 using the "Document", "Reduce file size", "Make compatible with Acrobat 5.0 and Later", "Save". This works fine and the users with Acrobat 5.0 can open the file for editing/viewing.
This is tedious to do for every file printed.
I attempted to fix my problem ongoing by setting the Distiller settings that are supposed to be used by Acrobat. In Distiller V 9.1 "Settings", "Edit settings", "Compatability", picked "Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3), "Save As". Distiller now displays "Compatibility: Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3)".
However, when I then print from Acrobat 9.1.2 the resulting file's "Properties" displays "PDF Producer: Acrobat Distiller 9.0.0 (Windows)" and "PDF Version: 1.5 (Acrobat 6.x)". And the file can not be opened in Acrobat 5.0
This appears to be a problem with Distiller not correctly saving the PDF 1.3 parameters (it appears to save PDF 1.5 by default); I have contacted Adobe directly but have not received a reply.

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