Do PDF's created under Linux differ from PDF's being created under Windows?

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I see.
Topic subject and first post said that PDFs would be different on Linux than on Windows which was surprsing.

So it is just different programs generating PDFs differently, which is much more likely given they will often use vendor specific code to do that.

Which also makes it very difficult to check what is actually different.

Aren’t such tools just generating PDFs?

I’ve worked with Scribus for many years (for brochures and such) and always used its PDF to send the content to the printing company.

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Easy way to add simple text annotations to an image?
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And also leverage ScribusGenerator Python script to customise Scribus outflow.
Another ploy is to uses quarto .. advanced markdown … and try SVG output.

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I had not heard of that before.
Very interesting, will look into this.

Thanks a lot!

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On Fedora, I install “poppler-utils” package, in there is a command “pdfinfo”, it’s helpful because it can tell you what program created the pdf, what version of pdf was used. On my Fedora 42, things like Libreoffice seem to be creating pdf’s of version 1.7. If I go to Linkedin and download my profile from their portal as a pdf, I see it’s a version 1.4 pdf. So they’re going a bit older maybe for some compatibility reasons. So there are different pdfs and versions all around the place.

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