On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>wrote:

> Recent texlive 2008 installed on Linux Slackware 12.0 system.
>
> I have a file that I can process via texexec and which shows up fine
> on my Acrobat Reader, kpdf or xpdf. However another person using
> (probably) Windows  keeps getting corrupt file errors when he tries
> to read it.   And when I try to run the output pdf through pdf2ps it
> blows up with this message:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  **** Warning:  An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
>   **** The file has been damaged.  This may have been caused
>   **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
>   **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
> ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel
> Operand stack:
>   1   --dict:6/6(ro)(G)--   8¬­ÎµÈ¶dm
> Execution stack:
>   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--
> 2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1
> 3   %oparray_pop   1
> 3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> false
> 1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>   --dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:107/200
> (L)--   --dict:107/200(L)--   --dict:104/127(ro)
> (G)--   --dict:241/347(ro)(G)--   --dict:18/24(L)--
>


> Current allocation mode is local
> ESP Ghostscript 815.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
maybe gs is too old.
you can try with 8.61 or  8.62  or 8.63 (and cross the fingers ...)
-- 
luigi