[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 20420] New: pdftops produces broken Postscript

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20420

           Summary: pdftops produces broken Postscript
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: till.kamppeter at gmail.com


Created an attachment (id=23437)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=23437)
PDF file from which pdftops produces broken PostScript

The PostScript which comes out when converting the attached PDF file via

pdftops afdruk.pdf

is broken. Ghostscript 8.64 gives the following error:

till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ gs afdruk.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   19
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1862   1   3   %oparray_pop  
1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1845   1   3   %oparray_pop   1739   1   3  
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--  
--dict:87/150(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 257319
GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ 

till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ pdftops --version
Error: Couldn't open file '--version'
till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ pdftops -version
Error: Couldn't open file '-version'

Version of pdftops:

till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ pdftops
pdftops version 0.10.3
Copyright 2005-2009 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
Usage: pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>]
...
till at till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ 

Problem was observed on Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty. Original bug report:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/335397


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