PDF version 1.7 by default?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2025-02-09 at 00:14:50 +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

 > Am Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:46:07 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha via
 > tex-live:
 >
 > > whenever Adobe releases a new version of the standard,
 >
 > PDF standards are no longer released by Adobe. PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0
 > are ISO-standards.

ok, I should have written 'released' instead of 'releases'.  But who
recommended to make 1.7 the default?  And why?

With this recommendation minor version numbers are meaningless.  Does
version 2 require meaningful minor version numbers?  You mentioned 2.0
already.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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