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April 22, 2009
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Acrobat Versions and PDF Standards

  • April 22, 2009
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I need a mapping of which versions of Adobe Acrobat correspond to which versions of the PDF specification. I need this to assist  our customer's standards registry/product registry correlation. I do not need anything older that Acrobat 6.FYI, the current PDF standard is Version 1.7.

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April 23, 2009

I discovered that the Acrobat 9 FAQ had a section on Standards, so I have the answer for Acrobat 9 (PDF 1.7). Does anyone have the FAQs for Adobe 6, 7 or 8?

Thanks - Bill

April 28, 2009

FYI - From WikiPedia:

  • (1993) – PDF 1.0 / Acrobat 1.0
  • (1994) – PDF 1.1 / Acrobat 2.0
  • (1996) – PDF 1.2 / Acrobat 3.0
  • (1999) – PDF 1.3 / Acrobat 4.0
  • (2001) – PDF 1.4 / Acrobat 5.0
  • (2003) – PDF 1.5 / Acrobat 6.0
  • (2005) – PDF 1.6 / Acrobat 7.0
  • (2006) – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.0
  • (2008) – PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 3 / Acrobat 9.0 (The one for the ISO 32000 standard conformance)