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File has some garbage before %PDF-
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Classification
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   * - **Validator**
     - **Validator version**
     - **Error message type**
   * - Ghostscript
     - 10.06.0
     - 


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   * - **File format**
     - **Version**
     - **Specification**
     - **Description**
     - **Location**
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.2
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/jhove-errors/PDF-HUL-137/reserve3.pdf>`__

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Analyses
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Possible solutions
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No remediation determined. All solutions are listed :ref:`here <solutions-list>`.

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Output example
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	   **** Warning: File has some garbage before %PDF- .
	
	The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file:
		xref table was repaired
	
	   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
	   **** The file was produced by: 
	   **** >>>> Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows <<<<
	   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
	   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
	   **** specification.
	
	
	GPL Ghostscript 10.06.0 (2025-09-09)
	Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
	This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
	see the file COPYING for details.
	Processing pages 1 through 18.
	Page 1
	Loading font Times-Roman (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Regular
	Loading font Times-Italic (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic
	Page 2
	Loading font Times-Bold (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Bold
	Page 3
	Page 4
	Page 5
	Page 6
	Page 7
	Page 8
	Page 9
	Page 10
	Page 11
	Page 12
	Page 13
	Page 14
	Page 15
	Page 16
	Page 17
	Page 18
	
	The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file:
		File has some garbage before %PDF-
	


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Notes on the error
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Related errors by source files
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	Ghostscript:	File has some garbage before %PDF-
	JHOVE:	No PDF header
	veraPDF:	A CIDSet entry in the Font descriptor is missing or does not correctly identify all glyphs present in the embedded font subset and used for rendering
	veraPDF:	Actual length of the stream (.* byte(s)) does not match the value of the Length key in the Stream dictionary (.* byte(s))
	veraPDF:	Annotation flags are either missing or set the annotation to be hidden/invisible or non-printable (F = null, Print = null, Hidden = null, Invisible = null, NoView = null)
	veraPDF:	Annotation.s color (C present = true) or interior color (IC present = false) is used without specifying RGB-based destination output profile
	veraPDF:	A property is either not defined in XMP Specification, or is not defined in any of the extension schemas
	veraPDF:	can not locate xref table
	veraPDF:	DeviceGray colour space is used without output intent profile
	veraPDF:	DeviceRGB colour space is used without RGB output intent profile
	veraPDF:	End of file is reached
	veraPDF:	Extra spacings or missing EOL characters around indirect object/generation number or keywords 'obj' and 'endobj'
	veraPDF:	File header .*%PDF-1..* (offset = .*) starts at non-zero offset or does not match the pattern %PDF-1.n, where 'n' is a single digit number between 0 and 7
	veraPDF:	File header .*%PDF-*.* (offset = .*) starts at non-zero offset or does not match the pattern %PDF-n.m
	veraPDF:	Missing ID in the document trailer
	verapdf:	org.verapdf.pd.font.cmap.CMapParser getBfrangeEndFromBytes WARNING: Incorrect bfrange in toUnicode CMap: bfrange contains more than 256 code.
	veraPDF:	Pages not found
	veraPDF:	Real value .* out of range
	veraPDF:	The document catalog dictionary doesn't contain metadata key or metadata stream dictionary does not contain either entry Type with value /Metadata or entry Subtype with value /XML
	veraPDF:	The font program is not embedded
	veraPDF:	The value of CreationDate entry from the document Info dictionary and its matching XMP property .*xmp:CreateDate.* are not equivalent (Info /CreationDate = D:.*, XMP xmp:CreateDate = .*)
	veraPDF:	The value of ModDate entry from the document Info dictionary and its matching XMP property .*xmp:ModifyDate.* are not equivalent (Info /ModDate = D:.*, XMP xmp:ModifyDate = .*)
	veraPDF:	XMP property does not correspond to type null

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