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Dov Isaacs wrote someplace:
>Leonard's response notwithstanding, the simplest way of assuring
>that PDF files produced by Acrobat 6 can be fully accessed in
>Acrobat Reader 5.0 or 5.1 is to use Distiller job options that
>limit the PDF version to PDF 1.4 or earlier!
To Dov's point, I would add (or emphasize) that the ONLY way to
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For the time being (and I suspect this will last for quite some
time), we must "segregate" our projects (and machines, and
training) into 5.05 and 6.0 versions. I love buying new
computers, of course, but our accountant is not so enamored.
While I can't offer any magic bullet that will make this situation go away, I can in fact offer a solution that may make your accountant happier, at least if you're working in a PC environment. In my "other" life as a QA specialist as well as my personal use for experimenting with different environments I have become very fond of a product called VMWare. It can very easily make the segregation of different environments a trivial task. Depending on your particular environment that might mean a copy on the affected workstations or a copy of one of their server products. There are some other similar products available but I happen to prefer this one, perhaps because I used it first, but the concept is viable whichever of them you happen to choose. It won't solve the problem of having to keep staff current on both versions, but it will make it simple for them to switch into which ever environment they need at the time.
Later...
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Melvin Backus
Principal Wizard
Sleepy Dragon Enterprises
www.sleepydragon.net
