Your file contains neither fonts nor CIDFonts, it is simply one big image. Whilst it is common practice for scanner produced PDF to use OCR to overlay the scanned image with non-marking characters (obviously, being non-marking, the actual font used does not really matter), this file does not do so. I'd guess that's because either the OCR function was disabled, or it simply could not recognise the handwritten characters.
Anyway, as our 9.16 release fails with the same error as you saw (i.e. the error is not caused by the Ubuntu packaging), but the 9.18 release (which I assume is what you tested) works without error, I had a hunt, and found that the fix is this one: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=668406a5 I would suggest, if you want the maintainer to pull in this patch, you *may* want to open a new bug report, referencing the above commit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler-data in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1438494 Title: ghostscript fails to correctly substitute cidf fonts Status in poppler-data package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I reported this bug first with ghostscript (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695874), but it is apparently a packaging issue. The general issue is that when there is a CIDF font in a .pdf that is not embedded in the document, ghostscript will stop processing the file at that font (see the file attached to the ghostscript bug). The packaging issue is that CIDF fonts that are not on the system are in the default Ubuntu cidfmap file. System info is: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.10 Release: 14.10 Codename: utopic $ ghostscript --version 9.14 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler-data/+bug/1438494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
