[EXT]Re: PDF version 1.7 by default?

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sun, 9 Feb 2025 10:27:55 +0000 schrieb Philip Taylor via
tex-live:

> On 09/02/2025 10:17, Ulrike Fischer wrote: 
> 
> I see quite a lot documents containing \pdfminorversion=7 to get
> around the warning "PDF inclusion: found PDF version <1.6>, but
> at most version <1.5> allowed" mentioned by Bruno. 
> 
> Would "get[ting] around th[at] warning" not require
> "\pdfminorversion=5" (or less) rather than "\pdfminorversion=7",
> Ulrich ?

No. It means that you are trying to include a 1.6-PDF graphic into a
1.5 PDF document. 

To avoid the warning you need either to downgrade the version of the
PDF graphic (which is often not easily possible if it is from an
external source) or upgrade the version of your main document.


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/