Description of Problem:


The PDF file produced by the sample file below on a Red Hat 7.3 Linux
system crashes Ghostscript 6.51, whether directly by viewing the file
using gv, or indirectly when trying to print from acroread, or by invoking
pdf2ps.  (pdftops works, but produces a postscript file that also crashes
ghostscript.)  I would have rated this as a Ghostscript bug, except
that on a machine with an older version of pdftex (pdfTeX-0.13d, which
produces PDF version 1.2) and an older version of Ghostscript (version
5.5) the error does not occur.  When trying out various combinations,
the PDF file from pdfTeX-0.13d worked on both Ghostscripts and the one
from pdfTeX-0.14h worked on neither.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{charter}
\title{}
\author{Author  \\ \texttt{email@address} }
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{document}


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the above file as bug.tex
2. pdflatex bug
3. gv bug.pdf

Actual Results:

gv crashes.

Expected Results:

gv displays the file.

Additional Information:

The error disappears if any of the following factors is not present:
1. Use of a psnfss package that does not redefine typewriter font.
   (utopia also gives the error, times and palatino do not)
2. The first line of \author.
3. The second line of \author.
4. Font change inside \author.

An expert on tetex told me this:

"The bug report also shows that RedHat has messed up the map files that
pdftex uses.

"Using the old pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d that is contained in teTeX-1.0
or the new pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-HO20020731
that is contained in teTeX-beta, I get a 100% correct pdf file
from compiling your TeX source.

"I'd say: forget about that teTeX rpm's of RedHat... A clean
teTeX-stable or teTeX-beta can be downloaded from
  http://tug.org/teTeX/"

Whereas this suggestion might work for me, I guesss you would like to do
better than that.