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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5897:
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I don't know. It's been that way since 2008 when it became an Apache project. I
don't remember if there is a history of the pre-Apache project. A possible
explanation is that PDF/A is related to the 1.4 level, or that some features
require at least 1.4.
> 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
> Attachments: empty.pdf
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> 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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