On Friday, 26 September 2025 00:39:07 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > $ grep -n PDF- tmp.pdf
> > 1:%PDF-1.1
> > 447:%PDF-1.1
> > 
> > I'm too lazy to check right now whether that is valid syntax,
> 
> I'm sure Deri knows.  :)

Doesn't look like it, and PDF 1.1 is very old, on my system the same command 
finds "%PDF-1.7" so I know man is using groff/gropdf, the above is not.

> > reading the 750 page PDF specification is always a bit of challenge,

ISO 32000-2:2020 (PDF 2.0) is now over 1000 pages, and they have not provided 
an  index since PDF 1.4!!!

Cheers

Deri

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