Ghostscript and PDF font Bug - macos

i have a problem with ghostscript, Times New Roman and pdf.
My System:
OS: Mac 10.11.6
Ghostscript: 9.21
I want to scale my pdf with following code in terminal:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dDownsampleColorImages=true \ -dColorImageResolution=150 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
Now i have problems with the font Times New Roman.
In the Output.pdf the textline "Unabhängige Heimatzeitung" is broken, if you open the pdf in Safari or in Mac Quick View.
Here is the Link to the input.pdf
input.pdf
Here is the Link to the putput.pdf
output.pdf
Can anyone help me?
Many thanks in advance!

It does seem that there is some problem with the PDF. Acrobat preflight reports syntax errors.
You might try a different method: produce PostScript of the PDF, then run that through GS.
Or create (or download) Quartz Filters for OS X using ColorSync Utility to reduce the size of the PDF, and apply the filter to the original PDF.

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