Freeware that Will Let You Save .PDFs to a *Lower* Version?

[Ben Alias]

Is there any freeware that will let you view a PDF file and then let
you "Save As ..." the file to a lower version? (Like many word
processing programs do.) E.g., suppose you have a PDF made with Adobe
version 6.x, and you want to save it in Adobe Acrobat 5.x format or
4.x format.

Why would someone want to do this? In my case, because I belong to a
non-profit group where people are using their home computers, and some
of those computers only support v. 5, so the v. 6.x PDFs are
unreadable and unprintable on their systems. So they are asking me to
print out everything for them, etc. Some of these people are Mac
users running OS 9.x.

OT: If there is no freeware that does this, is there *any* software
that does this? Just curious, and I have never seen this problem
discussed before, so I thought I would ask.

C'ya.

Ben

 

[Susan Bugher]

Is there any freeware that will let you view a PDF file and then let
you "Save As ..." the file to a lower version? (Like many word
processing programs do.) E.g., suppose you have a PDF made with Adobe
version 6.x, and you want to save it in Adobe Acrobat 5.x format or
4.x format.

Why would someone want to do this? In my case, because I belong to a
non-profit group where people are using their home computers, and some
of those computers only support v. 5, so the v. 6.x PDFs are
unreadable and unprintable on their systems. So they are asking me to
print out everything for them, etc. Some of these people are Mac
users running OS 9.x.

Are these PDF files that people are downloading? If so can't the files
be viewed as HTML in Google and *saved* as HTML?

Susan
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[Peter Gordon]

Is there any freeware that will let you view a PDF file and then let
you "Save As ..." the file to a lower version? (Like many word
processing programs do.) E.g., suppose you have a PDF made with Adobe
version 6.x, and you want to save it in Adobe Acrobat 5.x format or
4.x format.

Anybody know of a utility which will allow me to
view PCL files on my monitor. I run winXP

Thanks

Hope you get an easier method than this.
In the ghostscript library (in gs7.04\lib)
are utilities for converting pdf to postscript
and pdf to postscript. You could convert the
pdf file to postscript and then convert it back
to a lower level of pdf.

Read the Gostscript licence. In essence, it is
free for non-comercial use. It's an excellent
program, but the documentation is a nightmare.

 

[(ProteanThread)]

Are these PDF files that people are downloading? If so can't the files
be viewed as HTML in Google and *saved* as HTML?

Susan

take one of the utilities that sets up a printer out port as pdf writer,
recreate the pdf that way (done that several times by mistake and it
seemed to work)

 

[Jim]

Is there any freeware that will let you view a PDF file and then let
you "Save As ..." the file to a lower version? (Like many word
processing programs do.) E.g., suppose you have a PDF made with Adobe
version 6.x, and you want to save it in Adobe Acrobat 5.x format or
4.x format.

Like (ProteanThread) said, you can "print" from Adobe Acrobat Reader to
another PDF creating program.

I like CutePDF Writer:
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

 

[fromnuaa]

the best pdf creator is:
(1) PrimoPDF
(2) pdfcreator 0.8.1

 

[Antoine]

the best pdf creator is:
(1) PrimoPDF
(2) pdfcreator 0.8.1

Could you indicate why prefer PrimoPDF to PdfCreator ?
Thanks.

 

[xxx]

promPDF is more stable, but pdfcreator is more powerful...

 

[Daniel Mandic]

Why would someone want to do this? In my case, because I belong to a

non-profit group where people are using their home computers, and some
of those computers only support v. 5, so the v. 6.x PDFs are
unreadable and unprintable on their systems. So they are asking me to
print out everything for them, etc. Some of these people are Mac
users running OS 9.x.

Hi Ben!



I cannot understand why some "some of those computers only support
v.5"?




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[mike555]

Is there any freeware that will let you view a PDF file and then let
you "Save As ..." the file to a lower version? ---snip--

=== you can do that on this website.. http://convert.neevia.com/
=====

 

[David]

I cannot understand why some "some of those computers only support
v.5"?

They do not have IE V6 on their machine.

 

[Daniel Mandic]

Why would someone want to do this? In my case, because I belong to a

non-profit group where people are using their home computers, and some
of those computers only support v. 5, so the v. 6.x PDFs are
unreadable and unprintable on their systems. So they are asking me to
print out everything for them, etc. Some of these people are Mac
users running OS 9.x.

Hi Ben!



I cannot understand why some "some of those computers only support
v.5"?




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Daniel Mandic]

They do not have IE V6 on their machine.

Hello!



I thought the thread is about PDF Documents not Internet Explorer!?




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Mark Kolber]

cutePFD writer. Free. No banners. No advertising. Flawless. I run it
in tandem with full Adobe Pro and use cutePDF more often.

Mark Kolber
Denver, Colorado
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[Gary R. Schmidt]

Hi Ben!



I cannot understand why some "some of those computers only support
v.5"?

Read the OPs message again. To save you the effort, I'll quote the
relevant bit: "Some of these people are Mac users running OS 9.x"

For that matter, they could be running Solaris/SPARC and they'd have the
same problem, Adobe don't seem to want to support any OSes other than
Windows and Linux.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[David]

Hi Ben!



I cannot understand why some "some of those computers only support
v.5"?




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

Because Version 6 requires Internet Explorer 6. If that is not
installed the Adobe PDF reader will not install.

 

[Daniel Mandic]

Because Version 6 requires Internet Explorer 6. If that is not
installed the Adobe PDF reader will not install.

You are answering postings from me which did not appear to me, as I
wrote them, in this group.

I have posted: "I thought this thread is about PDF and not Internet
Explorer"
But it seems, that postings from me do not reach this newsgroup. I
tried alt.alt.test, too. No Chance to poll messages wrote by me!

???



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[David]

You are answering postings from me which did not appear to me, as I
wrote them, in this group.

I have posted: "I thought this thread is about PDF and not Internet
Explorer"
But it seems, that postings from me do not reach this newsgroup. I
tried alt.alt.test, too. No Chance to poll messages wrote by me!

???



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

It did reach me but was later in the list as I read it. This post
answers your query as well.