[pdftex] Acrobat 5.0 / consequences for pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:34 PM 4/9/01 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
>On 2001-04-09 14:29:07 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> sigh. i was hoping it would be possible to avoid using a \pdfversion=1.4 
>> primitive. probably not
>
>In that case I would like a \pdfversion=1.2 primitive too. There

that would be there already then, since 1.2 is just an assignment Since tex
does not have a data type like that, it would probably be 

\pdfversion{1.2}  % a token list

>are enough 3.x Readers out there and on some platforms (e.g.
>OS/2) you can't get newer Readers (unless you use GhostScript).
 
I remember that it was discussed as primitive, but i've forgotten the
outcome,   

Hans
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