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/Version /1.4 in newly generated PDFBox PDF

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Trivial
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 3.0.0 PDFBox
    • 3.0.0 PDFBox
    • Writing
    • None

    Description

      Strictly speaking not even a bug, merely a nuisance, but it might indicate an underlying issue in version handling.

      When generating a HelloWorld.pdf as in this stack overflow question, the resulting PDF starts like this:

      %PDF-1.6
%öäüß
1 0 obj
<<
/Type /Catalog
/Version /1.4
/Pages 2 0 R
>>

      This Version value 1.4 makes no sense in a freshly created PDF with a %PDF-1.6 header and will be ignored by a standard conform PDF processor.

      So it should not be there to start with.

      Its presence might indicate, though, that internally PDFBox has a non-appropriate idea which PDF version it is wanting to communicate to a processor. If so, that should also be cleared up.

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        1. HelloWorld.pdf
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          Michael Klink

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          relates to

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PDFBOX-4952 PDF compression - object stream creation

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              tilman Tilman Hausherr
              mkl Michael Klink
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