When pdftocairo ist used with libcairo2-1.15.12-1 -- which (AFAIK)
contains the bug I linked above -- to output a pdf file (as pdftopdf
1.21 will do!), it would be no surprise have a corrupt pdf after
pdftocairo, which gs then rightly will complain about; esp. the ET
-thing is the one things such
My observations:
As changing pdftops-renderer does not seem to make a difference, probably only
one of the programs is installed and thus used in all cases?
According to Dependencies.txt, libcairo2-1.15.12-1 seems to installed, which
AFAIK is affected by the problem described e.g. here: