Version Switches for Acrobat documents

When I read a PDF manual, such as the one for Lightroom 2, I am very irritated by the repetitive "Control X Windows Command X Mac" and such phrases.  I think it is irritating and distracting enough to make it more difficult to learn the content.  The same happens in lots of books about Photoshop and other programs.
When I buy a new car, and read the manual (I know no-one does, but I do), there are paragraphs and even pages which do not apply to my car, but only to the more or less luxurious model.  If you get to read the manual as a PDF file, it is just the same.
I only have the reader.  Does Acrobat for authors have a way of setting version switches at the beginning of a document?  The reader would indicate at the beginning of the document which version he needs to view or print - Windows or Mac, for instance.
Then authors could have a flag to show which phrase, paragraph or page should be shown or printed for each version.  The printed version would be shorter, reducing printing costs.
Is this already possible in Acrobat, or could it be considered as a new feasture to make Acrobat even more irrisistable?
Bryan Stone

There's currently no way to do in Acrobat what you described. What you can do is have two versions of the same document combined into a single PDF and on the first page you instruct the user to select which of the two they want to view. You can even add buttons that print just one of the two. It's also possible to put each version in a separate file and put the two files into a catalog.

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