Convert PDF to Tif, infinite process

[uzmark]

I'm doing batch conversion of PDF to tiff. It works fine but for some PDFs I end up with an infinite convert process. after 8 hours i killed the process.

The PDF is only 6 pages. It opens fine in adobe reader and acrobat. However, when i convert to tif from acrobat it indeed converts the file but complains about error/corruption.

Any way to catch and handle so that files dont end up in an infinite conversion? Another problem is that when I kill the magick process the ghostscript process still lives on.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Markus

[snibgo]

This sounds like a problem with the PDF that Ghostscript can't handle gracefully.

I suggest you report this (with the bad PDF) to the Ghostscript people.