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.

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.
Jay Berkenbilt
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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)
     {