Invalid page tree node

Classification

Validator

Validator version

Error message type

JHOVE

1.32.1

File format

Version

Specification

Description

Location

application/pdf

1.6

OPF

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Output example

Validator returned error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jhove xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/ns/jhove https://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/1.9/jhove.xsd" name="Jhove" release="1.32.1" date="2025-02-06">
 <date>2026-06-15T15:21:07+03:00</date>
 <repInfo uri="/corpus/format-corpus/jhove-errors/PDF-HUL-29/108560872853724641186820772746051340254.pdf">
  <reportingModule release="1.12.7" date="2024-08-22">PDF-hul</reportingModule>
  <lastModified>2026-06-15T13:22:17+03:00</lastModified>
  <size>746935</size>
  <format>PDF</format>
  <version>1.6</version>
  <status>Well-Formed, but not valid</status>
  <sigMatch>
  <module>PDF-hul</module>
  </sigMatch>
  <messages>
   <message offset="422" severity="error" id="PDF-HUL-29" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/PDF-hul-Messages#pdf-hul-29">Invalid page tree node</message>
  </messages>
  <mimeType>application/pdf</mimeType>
  <properties>
   <property>
    <name>PDFMetadata</name>
    <values arity="List" type="Property">
    <property>
     <name>Objects</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
      <value>0</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>FreeObjects</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
      <value>22</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>IncrementalUpdates</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
      <value>0</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>DocumentCatalog</name>
     <values arity="List" type="Property">
     <property>
      <name>PageLayout</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>SinglePage</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>PageMode</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>UseNone</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>XMP</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
      <value>&lt;x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 5.4-c006 80.159825, 2016/09/16-03:31:08        "&gt;
   &lt;rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"&gt;
      &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"
            xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
            xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/"
            xmlns:xmpMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/"&gt;
         &lt;xmp:CreateDate&gt;2009-05-05T13:15:43Z&lt;/xmp:CreateDate&gt;
         &lt;xmp:CreatorTool&gt;wPDF by WPCubed GmbH&lt;/xmp:CreatorTool&gt;
         &lt;xmp:ModifyDate&gt;2017-06-07T11:30:53-04:00&lt;/xmp:ModifyDate&gt;
         &lt;xmp:MetadataDate&gt;2017-06-07T11:30:53-04:00&lt;/xmp:MetadataDate&gt;
         &lt;dc:format&gt;application/pdf&lt;/dc:format&gt;
         &lt;dc:description&gt;
            &lt;rdf:Alt&gt;
               &lt;rdf:li xml:lang="x-default"/&gt;
            &lt;/rdf:Alt&gt;
         &lt;/dc:description&gt;
         &lt;dc:creator&gt;
            &lt;rdf:Seq&gt;
               &lt;rdf:li/&gt;
            &lt;/rdf:Seq&gt;
         &lt;/dc:creator&gt;
         &lt;dc:title&gt;
            &lt;rdf:Alt&gt;
               &lt;rdf:li xml:lang="x-default"/&gt;
            &lt;/rdf:Alt&gt;
         &lt;/dc:title&gt;
         &lt;pdf:Keywords/&gt;
         &lt;pdf:Producer&gt;wPDF - http://www.wptools.de&lt;/pdf:Producer&gt;
         &lt;xmpMM:DocumentID&gt;uuid:ee6038f0-d229-4f7a-bb55-54c3afff518c&lt;/xmpMM:DocumentID&gt;
         &lt;xmpMM:InstanceID&gt;uuid:e409a326-cd7b-4544-a8e4-e32eadd12d3b&lt;/xmpMM:InstanceID&gt;
      &lt;/rdf:Description&gt;
   &lt;/rdf:RDF&gt;
&lt;/x:xmpmeta&gt;</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    </values>
   </property>
  </properties>
 </repInfo>
</jhove>

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