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Missing startxref keyword or value
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Classification
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   * - **Validator**
     - **Validator version**
     - **Error message type**
   * - JHOVE
     - 1.32.1
     - 


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   * - **File format**
     - **Version**
     - **Specification**
     - **Description**
     - **Location**
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `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_007_premature-EOF-only.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_018_trailer-no-xref-byte-offset.pdf>`__
   * - application/pdf
     - 1.4
     - 
     - 
     - `OPF format-corpus <https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/tree/master/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/minimal_test.pdf>`__

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Analyses
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Analysis
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See JHOVE documentation: https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/PDF-hul-Messages#PDF-HUL-139

Is it a bug in the validating software? - 


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Possible solutions
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Output example
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	Validator returned error.
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<jhove xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove https://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/1.9/jhove.xsd" name="Jhove" release="1.32.1" date="2025-02-06">
	 <date>2025-11-03T14:37:07+02:00</date>
	 <repInfo uri="/corpus/format-corpus/pdf-handbuilt-test-corpus/T04_017_trailer-no-startxref-keyword.pdf">
	  <reportingModule release="1.12.7" date="2024-08-22">PDF-hul</reportingModule>
	  <lastModified>2025-10-22T10:46:06+03:00</lastModified>
	  <size>621</size>
	  <format>PDF</format>
	  <status>Not well-formed</status>
	  <sigMatch>
	  <module>PDF-hul</module>
	  </sigMatch>
	  <messages>
	   <message offset="15" severity="error" id="PDF-HUL-139" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/PDF-hul-Messages#pdf-hul-139">Missing startxref keyword or value</message>
	  </messages>
	  <mimeType>application/pdf</mimeType>
	 </repInfo>
	</jhove>
	


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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:	startxref offset invalid
	Ghostscript:	xref table was repaired
	JHOVE:	Missing startxref keyword or value

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