[XeTeX] PDF minor version

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 16 15:44:20 CEST 2010


Hello,

for debugging purposes I need a lower PDF minor version number
for the PDF file generated by XeTeX.

* Unhappily neither xetex nor a \special are able to
  change the PDF minor version number.
  Thus take this as feature request.

* The only way I know is using
  "xetex -no-pdf", followed by "xdvipdfmx -V <number>".
  "xdvipdfmx --help" shows:
    ...
    -V number     Set PDF minor version [4]
  However xdvipdfmx generates PDF-1.5 by default.
  Thus this is a bug report.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek


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