Bug 690253

While attempting to split a PDF in two using ghostscript, specifying
-dLastPage=N where N is smaller than document's last final page number, I
receive the error:

"GPL Ghostscript 8.62: ERROR: A pdfmark destination page M points
beyond the last page N."

where M is some destination page.

Specifically, I am trying to split any of the Python Documentation pdf's, and
this error occurs on all that I try.  The result, as best I can describe, is a
pdf document with some functional links & bookmarks, and others that do nothing.

The problem is that the Error output led me to believe that the process was
failing completely when it was not.  I was also not able to find any
documentation about this problem.

The enhancements I'd like to suggest are: 

A) that this be a (minimally) documented scenario, 

B) that the error output be more helpful (explaining that a semi-functional pdf
was created), and 

C) that the invalid links be removed from the output document (links not
hilighted or clickable in pdf viewers).

I will attach a small example pdf so you can test for yourself.  The full
command I am using is:

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -DNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=halfletter
-dFIXEDMEDIA -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=test.pdf -dLastPage=740
-dPDFFitPage howto-doanddont.pdf