Creating PDF files using Ghostscript.

[joecasey]

Greetings,
I have built GNU Ghostscriopt 6.52 on my Linux system. I want to create
PDF documents. To date I cannot get Acrobat or Ghostscript to read the
..pdf files I have created.
The process seems to run without errors.
Here is my command line:

$ ./gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/golfer.pdf
.../examples/golfer.ps


Here is the output


GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

GS>
$


The above command does create an output file  /tmp/golfer.pdf but


When I try to run the X11 port of Acrobat reader I get the following
message:

There was an error opening this document. Could not repair file.



When I try to open the .pdf file using ghostscript I get the following
error message:


GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Error: /rangecheck in --readline--
Operand stack:
   5205   4948

(\256\344\204\)SO\224\177D\273\270\252a\227\310\000\221j\330P*bX6\215,\211\266MY}\323Cy3\031\325\276\033\200\032:\250v?\265\342\332:\006\337\360


\t\366\347\330P~aJ\223\361\206\255jR\000<\353k\004\032\320\334\\.E\334\227\251rP\016\005\342\231I\266\317\)|)


(\256\344\204\)SO\224\177D\273\270\252a\227\310\000\221j\330P*bX6\215,\211\266MY}\323Cy3\031\325\276\033\200\032:\250v?\265\342\332:\006\337\360


\t\366\347\330P~aJ\223\361\206\255jR\000<\353k\004\032\320\334\\.E\334\227\251rP\016\005\342\231I\266\317\)|\243^\220\)?\246\227\361j5H\335\325\351\325\335\2225\\^s\003\242\353\202#\365\244\325\)address@hidden(\251\361\351\211\t\364\224\022\004\267y\374\025\266cd\003\003SDzE\004\203\226\343\341\255\333\245w5\001\370==\256g`.\212...)

       5041   --nostringval--

(\256\344\204\)SO\224\177D\273\270\252a\227\310\000\221j\330P*bX6\215,\211\266MY}\323Cy3\031\325\276\033\200\032:\250v?\265\342\332:\006\337\360


\t\366\347\330P~aJ\223\361\206\255jR\000<\353k\004\032\320\334\\.E\334\227\251rP\016\005\342\231I\266\317\)|\243^\220\)?\246\227\361j5H\335\325\351\325\335\2225\\^s\003\242\353\202#\365\244\325\)address@hidden(\251\361\351\211\t\364\224\022\004\267y\374\025\266cd\003\003SDzE\004\203\226\343\341\255\333\245w5\001\370==\256g`.\212...)

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   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %loop_continue
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:984/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
   --dict:70/200(L)--   --dict:97/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:210/230(ro)(G)--

   --dict:10/15(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
$


I would welcome any advice on the cause of the errors and says to get a
working PDF file.
Regards,
Joseph Casey.