[pdftex] Acrobat 5.0 / consequences for pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:23 PM 4/9/01 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
>On 2001-04-09 14:14:32 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> the obvious question is, how much of the Acrobat5 features can pdftex
>> support while keeping the PDF files readable by Acrobat3? Is it all
>> hidden in extra keys which old readers will ignore?
>
>Could be. But older readers will choke once they see the PDF1.4
>in the header. Or you use the versioning feature and produce 1.3
>with additional 1.4 objects. Don't know what 1.3-viewers will do
>with this...
 
This can be overloaded by explicitly adding a version entry to the catalog.
[new feature since one can edit for instance a 1.2 file into a 1.4 one]

Hans
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