A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
Ghostscript	10.06.0

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.5		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.5		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.6		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF
application/pdf	1.5		Govdocs1 set	OPF

Analyses

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Output example

The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        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:
        A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

Ghostscript:    A closing mark (] or >>) had no matching mark, ignoring the closing mark
Ghostscript:    A Form XObject had a BBox with a width or height of 0
Ghostscript:    An embedded font is invalid
Ghostscript:    A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET
Ghostscript:    BT found inside a text block
Ghostscript:    cannot process embedded stream for font object
Ghostscript:    circular reference to indirect object
Ghostscript:    Couldn't find a named resource
Ghostscript:    degenerate text matrix
Ghostscript:    encountered more q than Q
Ghostscript:    encountered more Q than q
Ghostscript:    error executing PDF token
Ghostscript:    error reading a stream
Ghostscript:    ET found outside text block
Ghostscript:    found real number when expecting int
Ghostscript:    garbage left on stack
Ghostscript:    ignoring zlib error: incorrect data check
Ghostscript:    Incorrect /Length for stream object
Ghostscript:    integer overflowed
Ghostscript:    Invalid ICC colour profile, using alternate
Ghostscript:    Invalid number format: scientific notation
Ghostscript:    invalid operator used in text block
Ghostscript:    'loca' length .* is greater than numGlyphs .* in the font .*
Ghostscript:    malformed number
Ghostscript:    missing white space after number
Ghostscript:    non standard operator found - ignoring
Ghostscript:    number uses illegal exponent form
Ghostscript:    object lacks a required Subtype
Ghostscript:    Page drawing error occurred.
Ghostscript:    Possible missing white space between operators
Ghostscript:    recoverable image error
Ghostscript:    stack underflow
Ghostscript:    startxref offset invalid
Ghostscript:    text operator outside text block
Ghostscript:    The string data prameter for a /Indexed colour space lookup is too short
Ghostscript:    unbalanced or unescaped character '(' in string
Ghostscript:    used invalid operator in CharProc
Ghostscript:    xref table was repaired
JHOVE:  Improperly formed date
JHOVE:  Improperly nested dictionary delimiters
JHOVE:  Invalid destination object
JHOVE:  Invalid object definition
JHOVE:  No document catalog dictionary
JHOVE:  No file trailer
veraPDF:        can not locate xref table

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