[tex-live] Set PDF file version

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 17:33:17 CEST 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Steven Woody<narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My pdflatex produces pdf files with version number of 1.5.  For some
> reason, I want to change the pdf version number to 1.4.  Because
> texlive-2008 does not have a pdftex.cfg file, so I guess I should go
> for the pdftexconfig.tex file.  But after opened the file, I don't
> know what option I should touch:
>
> \pdfoutput=1
> \pdfcompresslevel=9
> \pdfdecimaldigits=3
> \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
> \pdfpageheight=297 true mm
> \pdfhorigin=1 true in
> \pdfvorigin=1 true in
> \pdfpkresolution=600
> \endinput
>
> Could you help?  Thanks.
>

Then after more searchings, I tried put \pdfminorversion=4 into the
pdftexconfig.tex.  But nothing changes on my generated PDF files.  Do
I use the correct method? And, will the pdftexconfig.tex immediately
take effect after modified?

Thanks.

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narke


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