[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-5897) Can't create an empty PDDocument with specific PDF version

["Tilman Hausherr (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5897:
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Why do you need something like that? Old viewers should be able to display PDFs with higher versions, as long as these don't use unsupported features.

> Can't create an empty PDDocument with specific PDF version
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>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5897
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5897
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.3 PDFBox
>            Reporter: Asger Hautop Drewsen
>            Priority: Major
>
> Currently `new PDDocument()` creates a version 1.4 PDF.
> Changing the version afterwards with `.setVersion(...)` only works if the version is greater than or equal to 1.4.
> It would be nice if there was a constructor for `PDDocument` where you could specify the PDF version especially since you can't downgrade it to a lower version after it has been created.



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