Add watermark to pdf version 1.1 or 1.2

Hi all
I'm currently using iText to watermark PDFs and it's working like a charm.
Some people had some trouble in watermarking PDFs and I found it was all related to old version of PDF. So I searched on the web but couldn't find any information about the features and history of PDFs (Wikipedia is nice but doesn't seem to be complete).
Thanks
Serge

Thanks for your answer!
I found a way with iText to force the PDF version and it solved my problem.

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