File has some garbage before %PDF-

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
Ghostscript	10.06.0

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.2			OPF

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Output example

   **** 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
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The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        File has some garbage before %PDF-

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

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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