Description of problem: Download Back and Front Matter from http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-8348-2448-6/page/1 and try concatenating them with: --- $ ghostscript -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePage=/None -sOutputFile=out.pdf "bbm:978-3-8348-2448-6_1.pdf" "bfm:978-3-8348-2448-6_1.pdf" --- Here is my stdout/stderr: --- GPL Ghostscript 9.06 (2012-08-08) Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 10. Page 1 Page 2 Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusSanL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusSanL-Regu. Querying operating system for font files... Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 4173580 2589999 4463608 2990214 3 done. Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Missing glyph CID=0, glyph=006b in the font HiddenHorzOCR . The output PDF may fail with some viewers. Page 10 Processing pages 1 through 13. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 --- Version-Release number of selected component: ghostscript-9.06-4.fc18 Additional info: backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None '-sOutputFile=Joachim Specovius - Grundkurs Leistungselektronik.pdf' /tmp/tmpkWcDjz /tmp/tmp4e6Wzc crash_function: pdf_write_FontFile_entry executable: /usr/bin/gs kernel: 3.8.11-200.fc18.x86_64 uid: 1000 ureports_counter: 8 xsession_errors: Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (9 frames) #0 pdf_write_FontFile_entry at base/gdevpdtb.c:487 #1 pdf_write_FontDescriptor at base/gdevpdtd.c:703 #2 pdf_finish_resources at base/gdevpdtw.c:662 #3 pdf_close at base/gdevpdf.c:1214 #4 gs_closedevice at base/gsdevice.c:632 #5 gs_main_finit at psi/imain.c:853 #6 gs_to_exit_with_code at psi/imain.c:917 #7 gs_to_exit at psi/imain.c:922 #8 gsapi_exit at psi/iapi.c:265
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I see it here too. pbfont->FontFile == NULL Also happens upstream (ghostscript-9.06) but not on master.
git bisect suggests upstream commit ec0a5d9 is the fix.
Fixed in: ghostscript-9.06-5.fc18 ghostscript-9.07-4.fc19
ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19
Package ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-13173/ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
ghostscript-9.07-10.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Re-opening for Fedora 18.
ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18
Package ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17687/ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
ghostscript-9.06-8.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.