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>> [PT] Why does my 2011 XeTeX tell me that the PDF version >> generated by my 2006 Adobe Acrobat Professional is too recent ? > > Because it is? > > I'm not sure what kind of answer you hope to receive. Your Acrobat > package is producing a version of the file format that XeTeX doesn't > support. Support doesn't magically appear just because a certain number > of years have passed, and being disappointed about that fact will not > cause it to stop being true. Disappointed ? No, surprised. It is quite clear from the Wikipedia entry that XeTeX has undergone considerable development since its inception in 2004 : > XeTeX was initially released for Mac OS X only in April 2004 with built-in > AAT and Unicode support. In 2005 support for OpenType layout features was > first introduced. During BachoTeX 2006 a version for Linux was announced, > which was ported to Microsoft Windows by Akira Kakuto a few months later, and > finally included into TeX Live 2007 for all major platforms. XeTeX is also > shipped with MiKTeX since version 2.7. As of the inclusion in TeX Live, XeTeX > supports most macro packages written for LaTeX, OpenType, TrueType and > PostScript fonts without any specific setup procedure. Version 0.998 version > announced at BachoTeX 2008 supports Unicode normalization via the > \XeTeXinputnormalization command. and it wass therefore a great surprise to discover that it could not handle a version of PDF that was specified six years ago. XeTeX is a PDF-specific engine : it is therefore surely not unreasonable to ask why it does not / cannot support a version of the PDF specification that is itself six years old. Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
