Choosing a pdf version

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October 30, 2013
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How do I convert a Word doc into an earlier version of pdf - eg 1.3?

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Lisa Marya,

If you cannot do it through Word, I am afraid you will have to do it in Acrobat.

If you have Acrobat, you may use File>Print>Acrobat Distiller, then select Properties>Adobe PDF Settings, then Edit Conversion Settings and select Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3). Or something like that in your version.

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LisaMaryaAuthor

Participant

Thank-you for your help. I'm dismayed that I'd have to buy Acrobat, despite having paid a monthly sub.

But I'll leave this forum!

pwillener

Legend

I am just curious: why would anybody want to/need an older PDF version than the newest (1.7)? Are there really people out there who use software that cannot read PDF 1.7?

When I create a PDF (e.g. with Acrobat), the default format is always something terrible old, like 1.3, and I have to manually change it to 1.7 (because I know that none of the recipients use Acrobat Reader 4.0).

My suggestion: ask in the CreatePDF forum what the default output format is. I bet it's something old like 1.3.