Till, sorry for the confusing message. I did compile as you described above and it works for me, not breaking anything as far as I can see.
% dpkg -s ghostscript|grep -i version Version: 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.3 The only thing I find a bit strange: % gs GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.61 (2007-08-02) It still says pre-release, but maybe I misinterpreted some comments noting that this indicates a wrong version. HaraldK. -- [Gutsy SRU Request] Ghostscript in Gutsy and Hardy is not able to print encrypted PDFs out of Adobe Reader 8.1.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172264 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs