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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 05:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glen Mazza <grm7793@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Valid version of the PDF specification?
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OK -- PDF 1.4 it is.  I agree with supporting Acrobat
V5.  However, I don't see backwards compatibility
concerns as much of an issue here, given the Acrobat
Reader is free and pretty easy to download. 

Thanks,
Glen

--- Jeremias Maerki <dev.jeremias@greenmail.ch> wrote:

> Do you have a particular reason for this? A feature
> that you need from
> 1.5? Most of the people I know who are users of
> Adobe Acrobat are still
> with version 5 which uses PDF 1.4. Only a small
> number of people have
> upgraded their Acrobat Reader to version 6. Start
> time of AR6 is a PITA
> so I personally love to stick with v5 as long as
> possible.
> 
> One problem I see is that as soon as you state PDF
> 1.5 in your PDF file
> you will get warnings in Acrobat versions 5.x. That
> might annoy some
> people. I understand that PDF 1.3 is now outdated,
> but I'd prefer to
> stay with PDF 1.4 for the time being.
> 
> On 09.10.2004 03:28:29 Glen Mazza wrote:
> > Team,
> > 
> > Which version [1] of the PDF spec does FOP follow?
> 
> > Can HEAD use the most recent, version 1.5 from
> August
> > 2003?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Glen
> > 
> > [1]
>
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki
> 
>