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ERROR -12 closing pdfwrite device in ghost script

In our module we are using the ghost script to compress PDF of higher size to lower size use the command

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
   -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

while converting this we are getting an error as shown below

GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1GPL Ghostscript 9.10: ERROR -12 closing pdfwrite device. See gs/psi/ierrors.h for code explanation

More Information:
we are using Ubuntu 14.04 OS.

Thanks,
Praveen Ravipati

Solution

  • Thanks KenS, I found the cause of the issue. I verified the tmp directory while compressing the PDF . it taking the huge space and at some point of time tmp space is not enough to compress. So this is throwing io error. So to fix this i added extra space for tmp directory. then I checked again.It is fine