[iText-questions] Re: how to generate pdf1.3 documents?

Carsten Hammer Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:06:09 -0800

I have a problem with some of the generated pdf files to print through a fiery rip. (Stack overflow because of offending command and so on..) The fiery rip only knows pdf1.3. However the problematic files run well on acrobat4.0. But as the metadata of the pdf file itext generates claims to be pdf1.4 format my collegues think it might be something in the pdf file that is not allowed in pdf 1.3. Perhaps adobes acrobat4.0 is just more robust than fierys software. Another possibility is that I just discovered a bug (in the fiery pdf rip).

Can I set the metadata information about the pdf version? Would it be possible to extend itext that way that I set the pdf version in a writer object (or document object?) and then every method is extended to know the pdf version it conforms to - if I use a method that conforms to a higher pdf version an exception is thrown - ? If this would be possible I could always make sure the written document is conform to a certain pdf version or is not written or in the case of pdf 1.4 it is always written.

Best regards,
Carsten Hammer

Paulo Soares schrieb:

As if transparency was the only new thing in 1.4. Thinking better that's
probably right. I'm not adding transparency to iText this weekend, though.
iText does a few 1.4 bits but you'll have to look hard to find them. Most of
the times the PDF is compatible with 1.2 and I use it to generate PDFs to be
read by Reader 3.0 in OS/2 with no particular care.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] how to generate pdf1.3 documents?

At 6:07 PM +0100 3/21/03, Carsten Hammer wrote:

What should I do to generate a PDF 1.3 conforming file using itext?


Since iText doesn't support any of the PDF 1.4 features - it
would be pretty hard to generate anything BUT 1.3 (well, possibly
earlier, but...)


Leonard
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