[OS X TeX] pdf graphic too new to be included

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:04:55PM -0500, Gary L. Gray wrote:
> 
> On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:34 AM, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:23:04PM +0100, Denis Chabot wrote:
> >
> >The highest allowed version is a configuration option, which is
> >set in texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex. You can set
> >it for a particular document with a line
> >
> >\pdfoptionpdfminorversion=5
> >
> >in the preamble.
> 
> Should one be changing this? If it is ok to change it, why wasn't it 
> set to a higher version in the first place? :-)
> 
> -- Gary

This is the familiar tradeoff: newer version -> more features,
less compatibility. 1.3 is compatible with Acrobat 4, 1.4 with
Acrobat 5, 1.5 with Acrobat 6.

PDF/X, which is a specification for prepress-safe pdf, requires
(at most) 1.3. It makes sense to aim for compatibility with the
oldest version that supports the features that you can't live
without.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg
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