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bad trailer dictionary
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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
     - 1.4
     - 
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     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_017_trailer-no-startxref-keyword.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_010_trailer-no-closing-brackets.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_009_trailer-no-opening-brackets.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_013_trailer-root-invalid-indirect-reference.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_012_trailer-root-no-indirect-reference.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_008_trailer-no-trailer-keyword.pdf>`__

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Analyses
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Possible solutions
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Output example
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	The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file:
		no startxref token found
		xref table was repaired
		Incorrect /Length for stream object
	
	   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
	   **** 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 1.
	Page 1
	Loading font Times-Italic (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic
	
	The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file:
		bad trailer dictionary
	


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Notes on the error
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Related errors by source files
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	Ghostscript:	bad trailer dictionary
	Ghostscript:	Incorrect /Length for stream object
	Ghostscript:	no startxref token found
	Ghostscript:	xref table was repaired
	JHOVE:	Invalid object definition
	JHOVE:	Missing startxref keyword or value
	JHOVE:	No document catalog dictionary

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