diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFCatalog.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFCatalog.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFCatalog.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFCatalog.java	2012-06-10 00:21:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -47,6 +47,30 @@
    */
   private int pagemode;
   
+        /* page layout SinglePage
+        */
+   public static final int SINGLE_PAGE = 0 ;
+        /* page layout OneColumn
+        */
+   public static final int ONE_COLUMN = 1 ;
+        /* page layout TwoColumnLeft
+        */
+   public static final int TWO_COLUMN_LEFT = 2 ;
+        /* page layout TwoColumnRight
+        */
+   public static final int TWO_COLUMN_RIGHT = 3 ;
+
+        /** 2-letter language abbreviation.
+        * default is none (=unknown)
+        */
+        public String lang ;
+  
+  /**
+   * The page layout
+   * @since 2012-06-09
+   */
+  private int pagelayout;
+  
   /**
    * This constructs a PDF Catalog object
    *
@@ -59,6 +83,8 @@
     super("/Catalog");
     this.pdfPageList = pdfPageList;
     this.pagemode = pagemode;
+    pagelayout = SINGLE_PAGE ;
+    lang = new String() ;
   }
   
   /**
@@ -69,6 +95,15 @@
     this.outlines = outline;
   }
   
+  /** One of SINGLE_PAGE (default), ONE_COLUMN, TWO_COLUMN_LEFT, TWO_COLUMN_RIGHT
+   * @param play
+   * @since 2012-06-09
+   * @author R. J. Mathar
+   */
+  public void setPageLayout( int play) {
+    pagelayout = play;
+  }
+  
   /**
    * @param os OutputStream to send the object to
    * @exception IOException on error
@@ -98,6 +133,36 @@
     os.write(PDFDocument.PDF_PAGE_MODES[pagemode].getBytes());
     os.write("\n".getBytes());
             
+    // the /PageLayout setting, added 2012-06-09 by R. J. Mathar
+    os.write("/PageLayout ".getBytes());
+    switch(pagelayout)
+        {
+        case SINGLE_PAGE :
+                os.write("/SinglePage".getBytes());
+                break;
+        case ONE_COLUMN :
+                os.write("/OneColumn".getBytes());
+                break;
+        case TWO_COLUMN_LEFT :
+                os.write("/TwoColumnLeft".getBytes());
+                break;
+        case TWO_COLUMN_RIGHT :
+                os.write("/TwoColumnRight".getBytes());
+                break;
+        }
+    os.write("\n".getBytes());
+            
+        if ( lang != null)
+        {
+                if ( lang.length() == 2)
+                {
+                // the /Language setting, added 2012-06-09 by R. J. Mathar
+                os.write("/Lang ".getBytes());
+                os.write(PDFStringHelper.makePDFString(lang).getBytes());
+                os.write("\n".getBytes());
+                }
+        }
+            
     // finish off with its footer
     writeEnd(os);
   }
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFDocument.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFDocument.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFDocument.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFDocument.java	2012-06-10 00:01:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -282,6 +282,17 @@
     return this.info;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * <p>Get the PDFCatalog object, which contains language, page layout
+   * etc</p>
+   * @return the PDFCatalog object for this document.
+   * @since 2012-06-10
+   * @author R. J. Mathar
+   */
+  public PDFCatalog getPDFCatalog() {
+    return this.catalog;
+  }
+
 
   /**
    * This writes the document to an OutputStream.
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFInfo.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFInfo.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFInfo.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFInfo.java	2012-06-09 19:01:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 package gnu.jpdf;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.util.Date ;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat ;
 
 /**
  * <p>This class stores details of the author, the PDF generator etc.
@@ -152,9 +154,9 @@
     // now the objects body
     
     if(author!=null) {
-      os.write("/Author (".getBytes());
+      os.write("/Author ".getBytes());
       os.write(PDFStringHelper.makePDFString(author).getBytes());
-      os.write(")\n".getBytes());
+      os.write("\n".getBytes());
     }
     
     if(creator!=null) {
@@ -186,6 +188,14 @@
       os.write(")\n".getBytes());
     }
     
+        /* generate date, added 2012-06-09, R. J. Mathar
+        */
+        Date today = new Date() ;
+        SimpleDateFormat dfPdf = new SimpleDateFormat("'D:'yyyyMMddHHmm") ;
+      os.write("/CreationDate ".getBytes());
+      os.write(PDFStringHelper.makePDFString(dfPdf.format(today)).getBytes());
+      os.write("\n".getBytes());
+    
     // finish off with its footer
     writeEnd(os);
   } // end write
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFOutput.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFOutput.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFOutput.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFOutput.java	2012-06-09 15:39:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
    *
    * @param os The output stream to write the PDF file to.
    * @throws IOException if there is an I/O error.
+   * @since 2012-06-09 Use 1.5 instead of 1.2 PDF versioning
    */
   public PDFOutput(OutputStream os) throws IOException
   {
@@ -86,7 +87,8 @@
     //
     // Note: As the encoding is fixed here, we use getBytes().
     //
-    baos.write("%PDF-1.2\n".getBytes());
+    // baos.write("%PDF-1.2\n".getBytes());
+    baos.write("%PDF-1.5\n".getBytes());
     
     // This second comment is advised in the PDF Reference manual
     // page 61
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFPage.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFPage.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFPage.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFPage.java	2012-06-10 15:49:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
      * problems.
      *
      * @param orientation a PageFormat orientation constant: 
-     * PageFormat.PORTRAIT, PageFormat.LANDSACPE or PageFromat.REVERSE_LANDSACPE
+     * PageFormat.PORTRAIT, PageFormat.LANDSACPE or PageFormat.REVERSE_LANDSACPE
      */
     public void setOrientation(int orientation) {
                 pageFormat.setOrientation(orientation);
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
 
     /**
          * Returns the pages orientation:
-     * PageFormat.PORTRAIT, PageFormat.LANDSACPE or PageFromat.REVERSE_LANDSACPE
+     * PageFormat.PORTRAIT, PageFormat.LANDSACPE or PageFormat.REVERSE_LANDSACPE
          * 
          * @see java.awt.print.PageFormat
          * @return current orientation of the page
@@ -473,6 +473,21 @@
         os.write(Integer.toString((int)pageFormat.getHeight()).getBytes());
         os.write("]\n".getBytes());
 
+        /* the /CropBox for the page size
+        * The cbox measures from the upper left corner of the rectangle (in X11-windows style)
+        * added 2012-06-10, R. J. Mathar
+        */
+        Rectangle cbox = getImageableArea() ;
+        os.write("/CropBox [".getBytes());
+        os.write(Integer.toString(cbox.x).getBytes());
+        os.write(" ".getBytes());
+        os.write(Integer.toString((int)pageFormat.getHeight()-cbox.y-cbox.height).getBytes());
+        os.write(" ".getBytes());
+        os.write(Integer.toString(cbox.x+cbox.width).getBytes());
+        os.write(" ".getBytes());
+        os.write(Integer.toString((int)pageFormat.getHeight()-cbox.y).getBytes());
+        os.write("]\n".getBytes());
+
         // Rotation (if not zero)
 //        if(rotate!=0) {
 //            os.write("/Rotate ".getBytes());
@@ -577,6 +592,9 @@
             // Our default procset (use addElement not add, as we dont want a
             // leading space)
             set.addElement("/PDF");
+            /* additional element /Text added by PDFFont.getFont() if needed, R. J. Mathar, 2012-06-09
+            set.addElement("/Text");
+                */
         }
 
         /**
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStream.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStream.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStream.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStream.java	2012-06-09 18:22:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
         buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         
         // default deflate mode
-        deflate = false;
+        deflate = true;
     }
     
     /**
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@
         return buf;
     }
     
+    /** Append a string and a line feed to the stream.
+     * @since 2012-06-09
+     * @author R. J. Mathar
+     */
+    public void append(String str) throws IOException {
+        buf.write( PDFStringHelper.getBytes(str + "\n")) ;
+    }
+    
     /**
      * @param os OutputStream to send the object to
      * @exception IOException on error
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStringHelper.java gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStringHelper.java
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStringHelper.java	2007-09-22 09:36:08.000000000 +0200
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/PDFStringHelper.java	2012-06-09 17:17:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@
   }
   
   /**
+  * @since 2012-06-09
+  * @author R. J. Mathar
+  */
+  public static byte[] getBytes(String str)
+  {
+        try
+        {
+                return str.getBytes("US-ASCII") ;
+        }
+        catch( Exception ex)
+        {
+                return str.getBytes() ;
+        }
+  }
+  
+  /**
    * Helper method for toString()
    * @param s source string
    * @param f string to remove
diff -NEwBatru '--tabsize=8' --strip-trailing-cr gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/makefile gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/makefile
--- gnujpdf-1.7.0/src/gnu/jpdf/makefile	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ gnujpdf-1.7.1/src/gnu/jpdf/makefile	2012-06-09 15:34:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+JFILES = BoundingBox.java PDFAnnot.java PDFBorder.java PDFCatalog.java PDFDocument.java PDFFont.java PDFGraphics.java PDFImage.java PDFInfo.java PDFJob.java PDFObject.java PDFOutline.java PDFOutput.java PDFPage.java PDFPageList.java PDFPrinterJob.java PDFStream.java PDFStringHelper.java PDFXref.java StringTooLongException.java
+
+all: $(JFILES)
+        javac -classpath . $(JFILES)