URGENT !!!!!! Embedding eps file into pdf

Here is information from the PDF Reference (v1.5, section 7.1):

"A PostScript XObject (Section 4.7.1, “PostScript XObjects”) contains a fragment
of code expressed in the PostScript page description language. PostScript XObjects
are no longer recommended to be used."

and from section 7.1.1:

"Note: Since PDF 1.4 encompasses all of the Adobe imaging model features of the
PostScript language, there is no longer any reason to use PostScript XObjects. This
feature is likely to be removed from PDF in a future version."

This chapter contains more information that advises against using PostScript XObjects.

OK, I took your file and saved it as a text file, then I used a tool that prints the byte offset for every line and fixed the xref table. One thing that is definitely wrong is your offset to the xref table (startxref): 2226 is definitely wrong if object 8 is at offset 599.

You should use other tools than Acrobat (or Reader) to debug your PDF files. xpdf for example gives much more useful error messages (as does Ghostscript). Once I had the xref table fixed, I got the following error message from xpdf:

Error (577): Missing 'endstream'
Error: Missing 'endstream'
Error (555): Unknown operator 'endstream'
Error (557): Unknown operator 'endobj'
Error (572): Unknown operator 'obj'
Error: Missing 'endstream'
Error: Leftover args in content stream

As you can see, you get a byte offset, and the associated error. It looks like something is wrong with the PS stream that you've embedded.  

Here is the error message reported by Ghostscript:

gs ./test.pdf
ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-07-12)
Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Error: /syntaxerror in stream
Operand stack:
   --dict:3/3(L)--   1072   7   0   --dict:3/3(L)--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   2   1   1   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1057/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:73/200(L)--   --dict:73/200(L)--   --dict:97/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:229/230(ro)(G)--   --dict:19/24(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:19/20(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


The most important part is right at the beginning: syntax error in stream.

I suspect hat you removed information from the file (e.g. the actual EPS content). The content length of the EPS stream does however still not match the startxref information. I was able to open the file by changing the two stream lengths (the page content and the PS xobject) to respectively 8 and 126

It's important that you understand what the Length entry in the stream object is. The PDF Reference contains the definition. It's the length of the actual stream (regardless of any compression applied, so for uncompressed data it's the length of the uncompressed data, and for compressed data it's the length of the _COMPRESSED_ data). It's the number of bytes from the first character of the line following the "stream" keyword until the last byte before the "endstream" keyword (including any line terminators).

It's usually best to but "Length" information into a separate object that you reference from the stream object, but write out after the stream object. This way, you can just take the locations in the file reported by seek() and subtract them (minus 1).  

Any luck?