When including a pdf file that contains fonts created with the autoexpand feature, pdftex will crash on the including file.
It seems ok in Web2C version: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.2-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.3) output format initialized to PDF entering extended mode Some parts of log file: ... ... ... ... ... ... ........\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil .......\pdfliteral{ Q} ....\penalty 10000 ....\glue(\parfillskip) 0.0 plus 1.0fil ....\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 ...\glue 0.0 ..\glue(\baselineskip) 0.0 ..\hbox(0.0+0.0)x469.75499 <./include.pdf{c:/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}> Memory usage before: 324&40245; after: 182&40224; still untouched: 1447733 ... ... ... ... ... ... Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 603 strings out of 95292 7342 string characters out of 1187525 52268 words of memory out of 1500001 3772 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 600000 for 2000 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 2000 18i,4n,17p,192b,92s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s 21 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 6 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 300000 Output written on t.pdf (1 page, 18020 bytes). -- Akira Kakuto