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I tried ghostscript on both OS X and Windows. OS X gs gave the following error:
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.
Error: /undefined in 600Ru600D0Fl0Ol2Al7Hl0Sl1Xl8c1E0x0Y0t5760x7680Y0M
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2
%stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1
%stopped_push 1894 1 3
%oparray_pop 1893 1 3
%oparray_pop 1877 1 3
%oparray_pop 1771 1 3
%oparray_pop --nostringval--
%errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2
%stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1161/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 677
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Neither Acrobat Reader nor pro will load the file. I also tried the "Recovery Toolbox for PDF" on the Windows side, with no love.
Any ideas? Am I munging my ghostscript commandline? Here's the two commands I tried:
gs -o repaired.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress corrupt.pdf
and
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=repaired.pdf corrupt.pdf
Joe B
Posted 2012-11-08T18:23:54.077
Reputation: 31
2How do you know it is corrupted? What is happening when you try to open/view the PDF? – Paperlantern – 2012-11-08T18:29:14.853
I see where you just said it won't load, but do you get an error? Often times on difficult PDFs I find the PDF viewer built into Linux Mint is extremely resilient and can open files that other programs just cant seem to get their heads around. Reprinting it to PDF from Mint makes a clean pdf that the other programs can then use. I do this many times a month for users at my work. – Paperlantern – 2012-11-08T18:35:42.517
Error is: "filename.pdf" Could not be opened. It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn't recognize. Acrobat on Windows gives: Reader could not open filename because it is either not a supported file type of because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded). – Joe B – 2012-11-08T23:08:20.203
Try pdftk and qpdf. – Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder – 2012-11-09T08:08:45.263
pdftk reports "Error: Failed to open PDF file: filename" I'm willing at this point to assume that the pdf is beyond saving, but thank you everyone for trying! I apprecate your help, and so does my user whose file it was. If you appreciate how much effort I put in, please vote my question up, since I'd love to have more than 6 reputation... ;) Cheers, – Joe B – 2012-11-09T20:08:36.197