[poppler] poppler PDF version compatibility

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon May 28 09:19:55 PDT 2012


El Dilluns, 28 de maig de 2012, a les 11:06:14, Lucas Vieites va escriure:
>   Hi,
>   I'm comparing the features of xpdf-poppler (the package provided by
> OpenSuse 12.1, which uses libpoppler 0.18.0) and Adobe Reader 9.5.1
> (provided by the same distribution).
>   The most important thing I need to compare is the compatibility of both
> document readers regarding the PDF document versioning. The Wikipedia page
> for PDF [1] shows this list with the relations between Acrobat Reader
> versions and versions of PDF:
> 
>    - 1993 – PDF 1.0 / Acrobat 1.0
>    - 1994 – PDF 1.1 / Acrobat 2.0
>    - 1996 – PDF 1.2 / Acrobat 3.0
>    - 2000 – PDF 1.3 / Acrobat 4.0
>    - 2001 – PDF 1.4 / Acrobat 5.0
>    - 2003 – PDF 1.5 / Acrobat 6.0
>    - 2005 – PDF 1.6 / Acrobat 7.0
>    - 2006 – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.0
>    - 2006 – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.2
>    - 2008 – PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 3 / Acrobat 9.0
>    - 2009 – PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 5 / Acrobat 9.1
> 
>   Is there any way to obtain a similar list for poppler (at least of the
> latest versions).

Other than looking at the code, no.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
> 
>   Please reply to email too, as I'm not subscribed to the list,
> 
>   Thanks in advance,
> --
> Lucas Vieites
> lucas.vieites at gmail.com


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