[XeTeX] PDF V1.6 too recent

[Philip TAYLOR]

Martin Schröder wrote:

> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/023983.html

which reads (in part) :

> And how does one tell xetex to produce PDF 1.6?

"Produce" is the opposite of "consume".  As was clear from
my original post, I would like XeTeX to /consume/ PDF 1.6 and
not (necessarily) produce PDF 1.6.  If the former can be
achieved only be enabling the latter, so be it, but that
is by no means evident from the message to which you refer.

Philip Taylor