In versions of BI Publisher earlier than 11.1.1.7, the PDF utilities required that all PDF input documents be PDF version 1.4. Starting with the 11.1.1.7 release, users can pass PDF documents of later versions to the BI Publisher PDF utilities.
BI Publisher generates the output PDF version based on the input PDF version as follows:
PDF version 1.4 and earlier generates PDF 1.4
PDF version 1.5 and later generates the same output version as the input version
Note:
The version specification here is referred to as "PDF 1.7," however, there are very few differences between PDF 1.7 and ISO 32000-1. Therefore BI Publisher's support for PDF 1.7 can also be considered as support for ISO 32000-1.
For more information about these standards, see the Adobe website at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
and the International Organization for Standardization website at