circular reference to indirect object

Classification

Validator

Validator version

Error message type

Ghostscript

10.06.0

File format

Version

Specification

Description

Location

application/pdf

1.3

Govdocs1 set

OPF format-corpus

application/pdf

1.4

Govdocs1 set

OPF format-corpus

application/pdf

1.7

OPF format-corpus

application/pdf

1.4

OPF format-corpus

application/pdf

1.7

OPF format-corpus

Analyses

Possible solutions

Output example

warning: ignoring zlib error: incorrect data check

The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        startxref offset invalid
        missing white space after number
        error executing PDF token
        circular reference to indirect object
        xref table was repaired
        object lacks a required Subtype

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by:
   **** >>>> Acrobat PDFWriter 4.0 for Windows NT <<<<
   **** 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 90.
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Loading font TimesNewRoman (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Regular
Loading font Arial (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Loading font TimesNewRoman,Bold (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Bold
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Loading font Arial,Bold (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Bold
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Loading font Arial,Italic (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Italic
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Loading font Helvetica (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Loading font Helvetica (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Loading font Helv (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
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The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        invalid operator used in text block
        A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

Notes on the error