Thank you all for taking the time to report this bug. I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in pdftk 1.44-6 which is now in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Quantal Quetzal.
If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "Requesting a Backport" at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Requesting_a_Backport Changelog entry: pdftk (1.44-6) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix burst command. It produced non-standard-conform pdf files whose unused xref entries were wrongly marked as used. (Closes: #685983) * debian/*: Change my e-mail address and remove DM upload rights. -- Johann Felix Soden <joh...@debian.org> Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:17:35 +0200 ** Changed in: pdftk (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924039 Title: pdftk burst command creates invalid xref entries To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdftk/+bug/924039/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs