: Illustrator PDF Version Question I have a question about PDF versions. I have a bunch of PDFs that are saved as version 1.3. I realize that's an ancient version but thats not my call haha.

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I have a question about PDF versions. I have a bunch of PDFs that are saved as version 1.3.

I realize that's an ancient version but thats not my call haha. When I open them and make any changes and hit save as....the versioning defaults/stays at 1.3 (which is great, that is what I want and what I would think Illustrator would do).

However, I opened a PDF that was saved as a 1.6 and made some changes, hit save as, and it defaults to version 1.4 for some reason.

As I said earlier, it would make sense to me that whatever version the PDF was originally created at, that's what Illustrator would default to when you hit save as.

I'm just trying to figure out how Illustrator decides what version to save the PDF as when you hit save as.

And just to be clear, I realize you can manually change the PDF version when saving the PDF but if I have a bunch of files to make changes to. I don't want to have to worry about checking the version every time I save a file.

As I said before, sometimes Illustrator retains the original version in the Save PDF screen and sometimes it changes it.

I can't seem to figure out why.

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