Catalog dictionary not located in file, unable to proceed

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
Ghostscript	10.06.0

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.4			OPF

Analyses

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Output example

Catalog dictionary not located in file, unable to proceed

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.
   **** Error: Couldn't initialise file.
               Output may be incorrect.
   No pages will be processed (FirstPage > LastPage).

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

Ghostscript:    Catalog dictionary not located in file, unable to proceed
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