From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) Description of problem: When opening this pdf in versions of Acrobat later than 5.0 the following errors appear on the blank pages: "There was an error processing a page". "The page contents object has the wrong type". The pdf opens correctly and without any error messages in version 4.xx of Acrobat. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/pdf/rhl-ig-x86-en-73.pdf under Windows 2000 using Adobe Acrobat version 5.05. 2. Page down until you hit a blank page. 3. A dialog box appears with the above error messages. Actual Results: Click OK and then you can continue without further complaints until the next blank page is hit. Cannot print though, due to this problem. Expected Results: Blank page should not have produced any errors. Additional info: I found the following useful information on: http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/bug-gs/2001-July/000535.html Suggested fix, if any: Acrobat Reader 5.0 apparently doesn't like the "/Contents []" that is generated for the blank page. One possible fix would be to not generate any "/Contents" for a blank page. I already submitted a question to Adobe's User Forums asking if this problem was a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.0. Here is the reply: No, I think the bug is in the PDF file. Acrobat 5 has stricter error checking. A blank page should have one of the following: - no /Contents key - Contents key containing an empty stream - Contents key containing an array containing an empty stream The Specification is not explicit about disallowing a zero length array, but it does say it must be an array of streams. An empty array has no particular type, so is arguably NOT an array of streams.
*** Bug 65754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This for the link. I was not aware of this problem when the PDF file were produced. I tested them under Acrobat Reader 5.05 under Windows ME, and it did not give me any errors. I have filed bug #65798 against ghostscript to see if we can fix this problem. Thanks for the help.
FWIW, I downloaded Adobe Acrobat 5.05 for Linux, and it opens and prints the PDF correctly.
Can someone with Windows 2000 using Adobe Acrobat version 5.05 try to view http://people.redhat.com/tfox/rhl-cg-en.pdf? I produced it with ghostscript 7.05, which is supposed to fix the problem.
Tried Adobe Acrobat version 5.05 under Windows 2000 with the pdf at: http://people.redhat.com/tfox/rhl-cg-en.pdf and everything seems to display correctly - certainly no error messages from Acrobat. Ghostscript 7.05 would seem, therefore, to fix this problem.
Updated PDFs made with ghostscript 7.05 have been posted to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ and an errata has been posted to http://www.redhat.com/docs/errata/RHL-7.3-Manual/. The PDFs include bug fixes as well.
The 7.3 release notes PDF on the RH website / Support Docs still gives those errors