Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX PDF-1.7 in TeX Live 2025

[Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX]

I am using 
$ xetex --version
XeTeX 3.141592653-2.6-0.999997 (TeX Live 2025)
kpathsea version 6.4.1
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There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
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For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the XeTeX source.
Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew.
Compiled with ICU version 76.1; using 76.1
Compiled with zlib version 1.3.1; using 1.3.1
Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.13.3; using 2.13.3
Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.14; using 1.3.14
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 10.2.0; using 10.2.0
Compiled with libpng version 1.6.46; using 1.6.46
Compiled with pplib version v2.2
Compiled with fontconfig version 2.16.0; using 2.16.0

and 

$ xdvipdfmx --version
This is xdvipdfmx Version 20250205 by the DVIPDFMx project team,
modified for TeX Live,
an extended version of DVIPDFMx, which in turn was
an extended version of dvipdfm-0.13.2c developed by Mark A. Wicks.

Copyright (C) 2002-2025 the DVIPDFMx project team
Copyright (C) 2006-2025 SIL International.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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(at your option) any later version.
I tried the following file
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Ligatures=Common]{Minion Pro}
Hello world!
\end{document}
and the resulting PDF is still version 1.5
$ pdfinfo test.pdf 
Creator:          XeTeX output 2025.07.06:1115
Producer:        xdvipdfmx (20250205)
CreationDate:    Sun Jul  6 11:15:08 2025 EEST
Custom Metadata: no
Metadata Stream: no
Tagged:          no
UserProperties:  no
Suspects:        no
Form:            none
JavaScript:      no
Pages:           1
Encrypted:       no
Page size:       595.28 x 841.89 pts (A4)
Page rot:        0
File size:       3086 bytes
Optimized:       no
PDF version:     1.5

What I am doing wrong?
A.S.
----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece


 

    On Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 11:13:55 PM GMT, David Carlisle 
<d.p.carli...@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 

On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 23:49, Dominik Wujastyk <wujas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just checked a PDF I made about ten minutes ago, and got 1.5
$ pdfinfo incremental_SS_Translation.pdf
Creator:         LaTeX with hyperref


xelatex/xdvipdfmx defaults to 1.7but with hyperref it goes back to 1.5 with 
xelatex, which is probably a bug in the hyperref  xetex back end file we'll 
check....
compare this with and without the commented line
\documentclass{article}

%\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
x
\end{document}

David