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I have a very strange behaviour of pdflatex. I include two files with figure. If I include one of the files two times the pdf compiles without any problem. However, if I include both files at the same time, I am getting the following error:

PDF inclusion: /Group dict missing
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

What can be a reason and in what direction should I search to fix the issue? What derails should I provide to help understanding the issue?

UPD When I insert the same figures in two parts of the text the document does compile, if the figures are included one after another pidflatex crashes.

The figures are included as usually:

\input{figure.one}
\input{figure.two}

In figure.*.tex:

\begin{figure*}[!t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{path/file.pdf}
  \caption{...}
  \label{fig:label}
\end{figure*}
desa
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    Hello, how do you include such figures? Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – Moriambar May 21 '17 at 18:08
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    And is your main tex file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphics} \begin{document} \input{figure.one} \input{figure.two} \end{document}? When Moriambar said "starting with" and "ending with", that's what is meant: everything we would need to reproduce the error. – Teepeemm May 21 '17 at 18:26
  • Could it be that \input{figure.one} causes the error as the .one might be interpreted as a file extension? – lblb May 21 '17 at 18:31
  • Common guys, do you really think if I add documentclass it would help you to reproduce the problem? It is not a standard problem like I can not get a correct spacing or something. If you check my other questions you will see I provide MWE when it is needed. Here it is more about a bug related to pdflatex (as it seems from the first googling), and I would like to know if anyone encountered such a behaviour and found out why it happens and how it can be solved. Not everything fit to a common template. – desa May 21 '17 at 18:35
  • No dot in the names does not cause this problem. I checked it. – desa May 21 '17 at 18:37
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    Possible duplicate of Multiple PDFs with page group included in a single page warning – sodd May 21 '17 at 18:43
  • I am not sure it is a duplicate as I do not get any warning. pdflatex actually crashes. No meaningful message in log is provided. – desa May 21 '17 at 18:45

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I didn't find WHY it happens, but I found how to fix it. I think there are a problem with metadata stored in one of the PDF files. The problem could be fixed by running 2 times:

gs -o path/figure_fixed.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dColorConversionStrategy=/sRGB -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceRGB path/figure.pdf

I would highly appreciate if anyone could provide a more detailed answer and help in understanding what exactly the problem is about.

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