Re: Acrobat version bug?

[~graffiti]

That's probably because you've saved the file in 7 AFTER applying the password. Therefore it's now a version 7 file.

Apply the password then use File>Reduce File size instead.

[_Love__...@adobeforums.com]

I have discovered what I think is a bug in Acrobat 7.

I have been distilling PDF's for a print vendor as a lower version (Acrobat 3, Acrobat 4, Acrobat5).

When I check it in Document Properties -- Description, all is good, the correct PDF version shows.

Then I apply the password. Now when I check Properties -- Description, the version jumps up to PDF Version 1.6/Acrobat 7.x. There is no way to make it revert back to the lower version.

Is this a known bug?

[Bernd Alheit]

That isn't a bug. When you change the document (password security) and save the document it reverts to version 1.6.

[_Love__...@adobeforums.com]

Graffiti, you have to save it AFTER applying the password, or the password isn't saved.

What does File > Reduce File size do for me? I'm not concerned about the file size. The print vendor does not have vers. 7 and cannot open vers. 7 files in his prepress application.

[_Love__...@adobeforums.com]

Bernd, saying it's not a bug doesn't make it not a bug.

The program should allow a password to be applied without changing the PDF version. The password involves making changes to the file. The PDF version relates to the compatibility of Acrobat versions.

[Aandi_...@adobeforums.com]

It's not a bug when a program is working as designed, no matter how
stupid the design is.

A bug is *only* where a program doesn't match the design.

Aandi Inston

[_Love__...@adobeforums.com]

Aandi, if it isn't documented (and I wasn't able to find anywhere that Adobe states that password protected documents can only be saved as PDF Version 1.6), and if the program does not perform in a logical manner, I'd say you have a bug. Perhaps we should agree to disagree.

[Aandi_...@adobeforums.com]

I think so. Illogical design is not a bug, in my book, but disagreeing
further won't fix any bugs or change any designs.

Aandi Inston

[Bernd Alheit]

and I wasn't able to find anywhere that Adobe states that password protected
documents can only be saved as PDF Version 1.6

Follow the suggestion of graffiti and you can save a protected document in a previous version. Don't use File>Save.

[William_...@adobeforums.com]

If you do not want to use the File>Reduce Size, you can also use the PDF Optimizer to do the same thing. In both cases you should also get a warning if the security level you selected is higher than the file compatibility you are trying to maintain. Both the Reduce Size and PDF Optimizer are the ways to save files to prior versions. If that is not satisfactory for you, I guess you will just have to reinstall and old version of Acrobat and do the security setup there.

[Ian_M...@adobeforums.com]

Top and bottom of it is that Adobe don't want you to save the PDF to a lower version, they would rahter all your recipients upgrade too!

They do however realise that backwards compatibility is a 'necessary evil' commercially, so they have implimented it, but hidden it in an option that is not immediately obvious to the casual user. If this were not the case the option to save to a lower version of Acrobat would be somewhere on the Save As dialogue.

[de_...@adobeforums.com]

Also depsite the warning that the pdf has been created in a newer version, 9 out of 10 time there will be no problems opening the newer pdf in an older pdf viewer. People get overhyped about this.

[_Love__...@adobeforums.com]

de Siem, it's not opening it in a reader, but in a prepress application called PitStop (?) that is the problem.

All who responded, thanks for taking the time to reply. The File > Reduce Size method appears to have worked, and I apologize for being a skeptic about it.

[de_...@adobeforums.com]

Well I was speaking more in a general matter. Indeed if you set up preflight rules using pitstop or even acrobat it becomes a different more specialized matter.