Cairo can use 1.5 why still 1.4 in LO ?
(In reply to comment #0) > Cairo can use 1.5 > why still 1.4 in LO ? > What would be the advantages of using 1.5? Note that PDF/A-1 is based on 1.4
indeed, 1.4 is OK for transparencies PDF is advancing quikcly in Professional envoriments, latest Adobe products are 1.8 or 1.9 ?
I would even suggesting to use 1.7 Extension Level 8, it's the latest one Reference to the version: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Adobe.27s_versions Read this great article : http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/history/6 Adobe devnet pdf reference http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
(In reply to comment #3) > I would even suggesting to use 1.7 Extension Level 8, it's the latest one > Again, what are, in concrete terms, the advantages? And no, "because the numbers are bigger" doesn't cut it. ;)
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > I would even suggesting to use 1.7 Extension Level 8, it's the latest one > > > Again, what are, in concrete terms, the advantages? And no, "because the > numbers are bigger" doesn't cut it. ;) Maybe it doesn't count, but it's good to have modern version. Anyway, even if we would like use the new version, we would need to add/rewrite a lot of things. See e.g. this http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/source/gdi/pdfwriter_impl2.cxx#n1333 Moreover, if we look on this file http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/source/gdi/pdfwriter_impl.cxx and search for "todo" we will see how much work it would be.(what i wrote above).
Can we mark this as WONTFIX with a whiteboard status of PATCHESWELCOME. This way we acknowledge it most likely won't be done but if a developer ever has free time (haha...?) they can take a look at this and see if they can come up with a patch?
(In reply to comment #6) > Can we mark this as WONTFIX with a whiteboard status of PATCHESWELCOME. This > way we acknowledge it most likely won't be done but if a developer ever has > free time (haha...?) they can take a look at this and see if they can come up > with a patch? Yeahhh well, of course. This was just an idea to improve LO. Have no problems with it. Do so please.
Yeah and I definitely understand the appeal of using latest software but in this particular case it just seems like a ton of work for little (relative), real value. Thanks for the input
Looks like this was fixed after all. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=99ac4ee05b039166eedfe361fb985682fd92dd13 author Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> 2018-04-24 09:57:00 +0200 committer Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk> 2018-04-27 15:41:42 +0200 "Change default PDF version to 1.5"
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