Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript® language and PDF files, and it can be used to handle all nitty-gritty problems with respect to PDFs.

PDF cannot be embedded into Latex

I rely heavily on Draw.io (Diagrams.net) to create diagrams and export them as PDFs for my LATE​X projects. If you’ve ever had LATE​X fail to recognize certain objects in those exported PDFs, Ghostscript is the robust solution that can save your day.

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf your_input.pdf