Creating interactive PDFs for Mac preview?

I use InDesign CS3 on a PC and creating interactive PDFs for my clients. I just found out that when the interactive PDF is opened using the preview, all layers are displayed at the same time... Is it possible to produce an interactive PDF that works of the same aperture and read by Acrobat and an excerpt? Help, please!

As much as you cannot believe that it is a problem, it is indeed a problem. The reason that the application overview of Mac OS is so light and fast is that she is not completely and correctly implement the complete PDF language specification. Preview is OK, open the simple PDF files made from simple Word documents, e-mails, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations, but it often miserably fails on all that is graphically rich with significant amounts of and/or complex live transparency. There is nothing Adobe can do about it, other than to warn the creative professionals and other users Macintosh of the problem. Adobe Reader is free, whereas in reality, the problem is minimal if the user is ready to install the player.

Note that PDF is a fully documented ISO standard. It is not a question of not having Apple does not have access to the PDF language specification or having to reverse engineer any technology. At this point, Apple seems to believe that his product preview is good enough for the majority of its customers.

Note that the preview for iPhone and iPad iOS version is even more problematic than the MacOS version!

-Dov

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