[pdftex] Strange problems with graphics inclusion

[Jan Anderssen]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Ulrich Dirr wrote:

> Martin Schröder wrote:
>> Am 19.06.07 schrieb Ulrich Dirr <ud at art-satz.de>:
>>> When including some Illustrator graphic as pdf (I've tried several
>>> different methods from the original eps) I cannot select any text in
>>> the pdf with tools like PitStop, all pages seem to be 'frozen' ...
>>> When I omit the graphic everything is selectable. When I'm running a
>>> preflight I got an error saying that the file has a fatal error.
>>
>> Seems like an error in PitStop. Does it tell you the reason for the
>> fatal error?
>>
>> It opens fine here in AR7 on Linux.

I can open the file test.pdf without problems in Acrobat 6.0  
Professional on OS X, however when I tried to preflight it, I get "An  
error ocurred while parsing a content stream. Unable to analyze the  
PDF file."

The file dia1d.pdf by itself preflight without problems, and so does  
test2.pdf.

I don't speak pdf, so I can't be of any help actually solving the  
problem. In the short term though, the usual "Save as PostScript" and  
re-distill takes care of the problem here.

Cheers,
jan