[XeTeX] unexpected improvement with XeLaTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 26 Dec 2009, at 13:43, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> due to a bug with hyperxmp and xelatex (that I'll report later), I have
> accidentally discovered that the xdvipdfmx version included in TL2009
> (and maybe in TL2008) provides much better compression rates using the
> -V 5 option.
> 
> How can I set that all xelatex generated files use PDF 1.5 as their
> minor PDF version?

See the V option in the dvipdfmx.cfg configuration file.

JK