startxref offset invalid

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
Ghostscript	10.06.0

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.6		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.5		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.6		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.2		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.4			OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.5		Govdocs1 set	OPF format-corpus
application/pdf	1.3			corpus
application/pdf	1.5			corpus
application/pdf	1.6			corpus
application/pdf	1.7			corpus
application/pdf	1.4			corpus
application/pdf	1.7			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
        malformed number
        integer overflowed
        error executing PDF token
        xref table was repaired
        error reading a stream
        Incorrect /Length for stream object

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by:
   **** >>>> Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (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.
Invalid number format: scientific notation
Processing pages 1 through 3.
Page 1
Loading font Arial-BoldMT (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Bold
Loading font ArialMT (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Page 2
Loading font Arial-BoldMT (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Bold
Loading font ArialMT (or substitute) from /opt/ghostscript-10.06/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusSans-Regular
Page 3

The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        garbage left on stack
        Possible missing white space between operators

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

Ghostscript:    A closing mark (] or >>) had no matching mark, ignoring the closing mark
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:    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:    garbage left on stack
Ghostscript:    ignoring zlib error: incorrect data check
Ghostscript:    Incorrect /Length for stream object
Ghostscript:    integer overflowed
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:    page not found.
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:    unbalanced or unescaped character '(' in string
Ghostscript:    used invalid operator in CharProc
Ghostscript:    xref table was repaired
JHOVE:  Document catalog dictionary object number and trailer root ref number are inconsistent
JHOVE:  Improperly nested dictionary delimiters
JHOVE:  Invalid cross-reference table
JHOVE:  Invalid object definition
JHOVE:  Missing startxref keyword or value
JHOVE:  No document catalog dictionary
JHOVE:  No file trailer
veraPDF:        Actual length of the stream (.* byte(s)) does not match the value of the Length key in the Stream dictionary (.* byte(s))
veraPDF:        can not locate xref table
veraPDF:        DeviceGray colour space is used without output intent profile
veraPDF:        Extra spacings or missing EOL characters around indirect object/generation number or keywords 'obj' and 'endobj'
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:        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

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