What's covered

• Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 Release Notes
• Distribution methods
• System Requirements 
• Languages 
• Resolved Issues  

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 Release Notes

Release date:  April 13, 2010 

The Adobe® Reader® and Acrobat® 9.3.2 update is a quarterly update which includes functional improvements as requested by customers and security updates encountered during the previous quarterly period. 9.3.2 address a number of customer workflow issues, security vulnerabilities, and more stability. 

Adobe recommends that you install the latest applicable update

• Adobe Reader 9.3.2 
• Adobe Reader 9.3.2 MUI 
• Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Standard 
• Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Professional 
• Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Pro Extended 

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Distribution methods

Note: This Update can be applied to Adobe Acrobat version 9.3 or 9.3.1 on Windows and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1 on Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.3 or 9.3.1 on Windows and Adobe Reader 9.3.1 on  Macintosh and Adobe Reader MUI 9.3 or 9.3.1 on Windows

• Update via the automatic product update system (Windows and Macintosh Only).
• Manually download the Incremental update for Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 (Windows and Macintosh) from Adobe support.
• Manually download the Incremental update for Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Windows and Macintosh) from Adobe support.
• Manually download the full Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Linux and Solaris) from Reader Download Center
• For more information regarding enterprise Administrative Install Point (AIP) installations, please click here. 

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System Requirements 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Windows®) 

• Intel® 1.3 GHz processor or equivalent 
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows Server® 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2; Windows XP® Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit) 
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 
• 335MB of available hard disk space (additional space required for installation) 
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.0 with Service Pack 1, 7.0 or 8.0; Firefox 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Macintosh) 

• PowerPC® G4, G5 or Intel processor 
• PPC: Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.8. Intel: Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.6.3 
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 
• 405MB of available hard-disk space (additional space required for installation) 
• Safari® 3.0.4 or later 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 MUI (Windows) 

• Intel 1.3 GHz processor or equivalent 
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate or Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit) 
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 
• 335MB of available hard disk space (additional space required for installation) 
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.0 with Service Pack 1, 7.0 or 8.0; Firefox 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Linux) 

• 32-bit Intel Pentium® processor or equivalent 
• Red Hat® Linux WS 5, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP2 or Ubuntu™ 7.10 
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment 
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 
• 150MB of available hard-disk space (additional 75MB required for all supported font packs) 
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or later 
• Firefox 2.x or 3.0 
• OpenLDAP and CUPS libraries 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Solaris) 

• 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent 
• Solaris™ 10 u5 or OpenSolaris™ 2008.11 
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment (GNOME only for Solaris 10) 
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 
• 200MB of available hard-disk space (additional 75MB required for all supported font packs) 
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or later (on Solaris 10; also works with GTK 2.4.9) 
• Firefox 2.x or 3.0
• OpenLDAP and CUPS libraries 

Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Professional, Standard and Pro Extended (Windows) 

• Intel 1.3 GHz processor or equivalent
• Microsoft Windows XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 or 3 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Server 2003 (with Service Pack 2 for 64-bit); Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2; Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit) 
• 256 MB of installed RAM (512 MB recommended) 
• 2.14 GB of available hard-disk space 
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution 
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.0 with Service Pack 1, 7.0, or 8.0; Firefox 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6 
• Video hardware acceleration (optional) 

Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Professional (Macintosh) 

• PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel processor 
• PPC: Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.8. Intel: Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.6.3 
• 256 MB of installed RAM (512 MB recommended) 
• 1.42 GB of available hard-disk space 
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution 
• Safari 3.0.4 or above 

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Languages 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Professional (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Standard (Windows) 

• English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian (Reader also includes Catalan and Basque) 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 MUI (Windows) 

• English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Linux and Solaris) 

• English, French, German, Japanese 

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Macintosh), Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Professional (Macintosh) 

• English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian and Turkish 

Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Pro Extended (Windows) 

• English, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish 

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Resolved Issues  

PDF Maker

2560751: Word document uploaded on the acrobat.com service runs into a timeout situation

PDFMaker does not work properly while creating hyperlink annotations for footnotes in a word document (when convering a word document to a PDF). This issue is fixed

Root: fixes an issue found in 9.2 

Viewer

 2558546:  Loading pdf multiple times in same process caused memory leak in windows browsers

Memory leaks have been signficantly reduced

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.0.0 

Security 

2468381: Watermark visibility remains unchanged for a policy protected document (with watermark) when using it as background or foreground

Watermarks should not be visible for policy protected documents when they set in the background or foreground. This issue is fixed

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.2

2501756: Long term validation data for the OSCP response is not being embedded in the signature at signing time which results in invalid signatures that should be valid.

This issue is fixed.

Root: fixes an issue found in 9.2

2518893: PPKlite plugin crashes when validating digital signatures

This issue is fixed.

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.2 

3D 

2460950: Reader in the browser crashes when viewing some PDF files

Reader crashes when 3D PDF files are viewed in a browser. This issue is fixed.

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.1.3

2525795: Performance degradation experienced after setting preferences to "Render points as cross-hairs when opening a PDF file

This issue is fixed

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.2

Trust Manager  

2537842: A PDF file trusted for Javascript still shows the Yellow bar and does not execute the javascript

If a user trusts a PDF with Javascript always, that trust only lasts for the session. Once Reader is closed and reopened, the yellow bar shows up again, This issue is fixed

Root: fixes an issue found in 9.3

2537849: When a PDF is added as a privileged location in Enhanced Security, Acrobat deletes the entry 'cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript'  under Key-\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\

If Javascript is enabled for a PDF and then another file is added to the previleged location, it causes deletion of 'cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript'  entry under Key-\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\. This issue is fixed

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.3

2558503: Adding a privileged location host from the Options button on the JavaScript injection Yellow Message Bar populates 1/2 of the privileged location keys it should.

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.3

2558529: bDisableTrustedSites and bDisableTrusted folders does not consistently prevent Options button from appearing on Yellow Message Bar for certain workflows.

Disabling user config of priv locations does not prevent the Options button from appearing on the YMB. This issue is fixed

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.3

2553890: Reader removes the “cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript” value and places it in the “cUnsafeJavaScript” key with the same value when the same exact web site value is place in the Trusted Hosts UI for Enhanced Security

A URL when added to “cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript” and Trusted Hosts in Enhanced security dialog would cause Adobe Reader to remove “cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript” value and place it in the “cUnsafeJavaScript” key with the same value. This issue is fixed

Root: Fixes an issue found in 9.3 

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