[XeTeX] Problem with includegraphics of pdf file version 1.5 which was fixed when converting to version 1.4

Mike Maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Tue Dec 11 22:55:27 CET 2012


On 12/11/2012 4:19 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 11.12.2012 um 20:44 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
>
>> Fortunately, I discovered a work-around:
>>    pdf2ps Bad.pdf Good.ps
>>    pdf2ps Good.ps Good.pdf
>> Apparently the round-trip strips out whatever the offending structures are.
>
> ps2pdf uses the ps2pdf14 shell script by default. This sets the PDF version:
>
> 	exec "$ps2pdfwr" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 "$@"

The odd thing is that both the original Bad.pdf and the new Good.pdf claim to be version 1.4 (at 
least that's what Adobe Acrobat reports).
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	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
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