PDF version 1.7 by default?

Boris Veytsman borisv at lk.net
Sun Feb 9 00:45:33 CET 2025


RK> From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
RK> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:46:07 +0100

RK> there is no need to buy new equipment and software whenever Adobe
RK> releases a new version of the standard, especially if none of the new
RK> extensions have anything to do with printing.

I strongly suspect that sending an 1.7 or 2.0 PDF to the printer
nominally compatible with 1.5 only would be just fine.  Still, nobody
wants to pay the cost of a printer run that goes bad, so setting pdf
version to the specified level seems to be a good idea.

-- 
Good luck

-Boris


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