[Tex/LaTex] PDF version issue when including PDF figures

pdfxetex

I keep getting the following line in my log file

** WARNING ** Version of PDF file (1.5) is newer than version limit specification.

with reference to each image I'm trying to include in my document. The images are inserted easily enough but I'm just a little miffed about this message. I used Inkscape to create the images, and when I was exporting them to PDF, the only option I had for versioning was 1.4. I'm also using XeTeX to compile the document.

How can I get rid of these messages?

Best Answer

Try this in your preamble for pdftex:

\pdfminorversion=4

for XeTeX edit the configuration file dvipdfmx.cfg which can be found for TeXLive in /texmf/dvipdfmx/ and replace the first line with

V 4

It also maybe the other way round, then change it from 4 to 5

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V  6

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[Tex/LaTex] Getting xetex to complain when a character is missing

If you set \tracinglostchars=2, then the message is printed also during the run on the terminal

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./lostla.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian,
 icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, or
iya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji,
 lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, pol
ish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbianc, slovak, sloven
ian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded
.
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file lostla.aux.
Missing character: There is no ā in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no आ in font cmr10!
[1] (./lostla.aux) )
Output written on lostla.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on lostla.log.

If I also add \usepackage{fontspec} I get instead only

Missing character: There is no आ in font [lmroman10-regular]:mapping=tex-text!

Update

With TeX Live 2021 (and an up-to-date MiKTeX), you can get an actual error by setting \tracinglostchars=3. This works with both XeTeX and LuaTeX.

\tracinglostchars=3

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

tām आ ṁ

\end{document}

On the console you'll get

! Missing character: There is no आ (U+0906) in font [lmroman10-regular]:mapping
=tex-text;.
l.5 tām आ
          ṁ
?
! Missing character: There is no ṁ (U+1E41) in font [lmroman10-regular]:mapping
=tex-text;.
l.5 tām आ ṁ

?

(Thanks to ShreevatsaR for pointing to the recent update.)

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