[tpicco]

I have Adobe Professional Acrobat 6.9 and Quark 6.5.

Some advertisers send me their ads as 7.0 PDFs... at least that's what I think is happening, because when I try to import them, snooty ol' Quark tells me it cannot be imported because it is an "unrecognized version."

OK... obviously I should buy Acrobat Professional 7.0. but are there any other workarounds? The PDFs open in 6.0. but when I do a save-as, they still won't import. In Acrobat Professional 6.0, there seems to be no way to save it back to an earlier version.

Right now, I just tell the printers to position it for me, but as a control freak art director, I hate that.

Do I HAFTA buy Acrobat Professional 7.0?

[siMac]

I don't see the reason for passing via Quark, you can specify trim, crop, bleed and otherwise define positioning of a PDF in Acrobat Professional, page by page if necessary. You probably shouldn't be accepting PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) files for prepress use anyway, 1.3 is the accepted standard (required for ISO PDF/x-1a), but properly made 1.4/1.5 files can be used by capable service bureaus.

If you must put them in Quark it is possible to save as an older PDF version using Acrobat's PDF Optimizer function, which effectively 'redistills' the file.

[tpicco]

thaaaaaaaaank you