\pdfmajorversion

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Sun Oct 20 23:15:20 CEST 2019


On 20/10/2019 22:13, Karl Berry wrote:
>      I think (even though only 1 or 2 are valid now) we should allow any
>      integer here
> 
> Well, maybe any whole number >= 1. I don't think we need to accept
> 0 or negative. Surely (?) even standards committees won't be that stupid.
> 
>      A macro layer
> 
> Validators/readers will also surely complain.
> 
>      I'm not sure that it should be an error in the engine code.
> 
> I tend to agree.

OK, I'll alter that as I work on this.

> Thanks for working on this. (And what an endless amount of trouble it
> will cause, but as usual we are powerless.) -k

Like I say, the C code is a lot more tricky: we have to pass along the 
major and minor versions, and everything currently assumes 
pdfminorversion = pdfversion ...

Further updates once I have something more extensive sorted.

Joseph



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