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Why do you think you need PDF 1.3? That version of PDF was generated by Acrobat 4, back in 1999. Pretty much any modern software (and almost ten years old is by no means modern in the software world) should be able to process PDF 1.4. <br />
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Also, chances are that your PDF still is PDF 1.3 compatible, it's just labeled with 1.4. What counts is actually what is in the file, and not what label an application put on the file. <br />
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So again my question: Do you really need PDF 1.3?
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Why do you think you need PDF 1.3? That version of PDF was generated by Acrobat 4, back in 1999. Pretty much any modern software (and almost ten years old is by no means modern in the software world) should be able to process PDF 1.4.

Also, chances are that your PDF still is PDF 1.3 compatible, it's just labeled with 1.4. What counts is actually what is in the file, and not what label an application put on the file.

So again my question: Do you really need PDF 1.3?

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Apparently we are using Quark like 4 or something and it only will allow 1.3 for what we are trying to do... Which is pull in a particular pdf for a particular record in design merge...
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Apparently we are using Quark like 4 or something and it only will allow 1.3 for what we are trying to do... Which is pull in a particular pdf for a particular record in design merge...

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Thank You ~ We ended up converting to eps and using that... &nbsp;I need to start programming in java iText seems great... I know a few of the free toolkits and programs I've used have been based on it.
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Thank You ~ We ended up converting to eps and using that...  I need to start programming in java iText seems great... I know a few of the free toolkits and programs I've used have been based on it.

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Anyone know of a free solution (command line) that can convert PDF version 1.4 to 1.3?<br />
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I am using pdftk to burst a 3000 page document, but it automatically converts the pdf from 1.3 to 1.4 - because it based on iText I think ~ looked for older versions no luck....<br />
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Anyone know of a free solution (command line) that can convert PDF version 1.4 to 1.3?

I am using pdftk to burst a 3000 page document, but it automatically converts the pdf from 1.3 to 1.4 - because it based on iText I think ~ looked for older versions no luck....



command line convert pdf 1.4 to 1.3

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