From ba2bae4accae4fa1f58bee82190fb7575aceaf72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:24:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use 1.2 as the version if we can't read it from the header

The code was using 1.0, but we use /FlateDecode, which didn't appear
until 1.2.
---
 libqpdf/QPDF.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index d82813d0..16641247 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ QPDF::parse(char const* password)
 	QTC::TC("qpdf", "QPDF not a pdf file");
 	warn(QPDFExc(qpdf_e_damaged_pdf, this->file->getName(),
                      "", 0, "can't find PDF header"));
-        this->pdf_version = "1.0";
+        // QPDFWriter writes files that usually require at least
+        // version 1.2 for /FlateDecode
+        this->pdf_version = "1.2";
     }
     if (atof(this->pdf_version.c_str()) < 1.2)
     {