[GPL GS WORKS] complain about damaged PDF but the PDF is opened fine by a PDF viewer

I am unable to repoduce this fault. I have left the settings at the defaults and used this PDF as an example: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/pdfaccess.pdf

I am running Gimp 2.2.11, can you confirm what version you have running?

Works fine on my box too. Do you have an example to point? Is that specific to one pdf or happening of any of them?

Indeed, the above PDF works here as well. What does not work is e.g.
http://code.google.com/soc/SoC2006StudentForeignCertification.pdf.
My gimp version is 2.2.11.

Does not work with the google SoC PDF linked, I get this error message if run from a shell:

 **** 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.
ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343399

ghostscript issue according to issue, reassigning to gs-esp

The fact that one program opens the file doesn't mean that the file isn't in fact broken. What else makes you think the file isn't damaged like gs-esp says it is ?

I don't know, if the file is damaged feel free to close it as NOTABUG or make a feature request to have better handling of broken files, I've not knowledge of the gs-esp code, I'm just reassigning where somebody knowing it can decide if that's a bug or not. Let me know if that's the wrong thing to do

comments from upstream;

"FWIW, the poppler plugin in GIMP 2.3 opens the PDF just fine."

"Also, gs 8.53 handles this file ok too. It's in the gs-afpl package in Debian
unstable; I don't know if Ubuntu packages it."

 pdfaccess.pdf works fine with GS 8.15 and up
SoC2006StudentForeignCertification.pdf is damaged but can be recovered by GS 8.54 and up

GS 8.56 is about to be released. Please upgrade.