strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Hello,

I have a pdf file here which

- Displays perfectly with kpdf
- Does not print from kpdf. This is because gs fails with this file:
rd@dell:/tmp$ gs DKB.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
false   1   %stopped_push   1905   1   3   %oparray_pop   1904   1   
3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   %oparray_pop   1771   1   
3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
2   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1151/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 6
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
rd@dell:/tmp$

(I do not want to post the file, because it contains credit card data).

- What surprises me is that acroread complains that the file is an unsupported 
type or contains errors.

- since the file works on windows version of acrobat (downloaded from the same 
source), I though it has something todo with the character encoding:

rd@dell:/tmp$ file DKB.pdf
DKB.pdf: ISO-8859 text, with very long lines, with CRLF, LF line terminators
rd@dell:/tmp$ 

Any inside what could go wrong here is very welcome. Also ideas on how to get 
better debug information ....

Many thanks,
Rainer