PDF minor version number is greater than .*

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
JHOVE	1.32.1

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.8			corpus
application/pdf	1.8			corpus

Analyses

Analysis

See JHOVE documentation: https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/PDF-hul-Messages#PDF-HUL-148

Is it a bug in the validating software? -

Possible solutions

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>2025-10-29T17:22:13+02:00</date>
 <repInfo uri="/corpus/file-scraper/tests/data/application_pdf/invalid_A-3b_wrong_version.pdf">
  <reportingModule release="1.12.7" date="2024-08-22">PDF-hul</reportingModule>
  <lastModified>2025-10-28T08:43:04+02:00</lastModified>
  <size>12805</size>
  <format>PDF</format>
  <version>1.8</version>
  <status>Well-Formed, but not valid</status>
  <sigMatch>
  <module>PDF-hul</module>
  </sigMatch>
  <messages>
   <message offset="0" severity="error" id="PDF-HUL-148" infoLink="https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/wiki/PDF-hul-Messages#pdf-hul-148">PDF minor version number is greater than 7.</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>21</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>FreeObjects</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
      <value>1</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>Info</name>
     <values arity="List" type="Property">
     <property>
      <name>Title</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>Title</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>Creator</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>しひどぴづひ</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>Producer</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>GPL Ghostscript 9.07</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>CreationDate</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="Date">
       <value>Thu Mar 07 01:08:36 EET 2019</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>ModDate</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="Date">
       <value>Thu Mar 07 01:08:36 EET 2019</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>ID</name>
     <values arity="Array" type="String">
      <value>0x2506570c2049b2b8594dabc8203e63a0</value>
      <value>0x2506570c2049b2b8594dabc8203e63a0</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>Filters</name>
     <values arity="List" type="Property">
     <property>
      <name>FilterPipeline</name>
      <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
       <value>FlateDecode</value>
      </values>
     </property>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>Fonts</name>
     <values arity="List" type="Property">
     <property>
      <name>Type0</name>
      <values arity="List" type="Property">
      <property>
       <name>Font</name>
       <values arity="List" type="Property">
       <property>
        <name>BaseFont</name>
        <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
         <value>XJHXBN+LiberationSerif-OneByteIdentityH</value>
        </values>
       </property>
       <property>
        <name>ToUnicode</name>
        <values arity="Scalar" type="Boolean">
         <value>true</value>
        </values>
       </property>
       </values>
      </property>
      </values>
     </property>
     <property>
      <name>CIDFontType2</name>
      <values arity="List" type="Property">
      <property>
       <name>Font</name>
       <values arity="List" type="Property">
       <property>
        <name>BaseFont</name>
        <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
         <value>XJHXBN+LiberationSerif</value>
        </values>
       </property>
       <property>
        <name>CIDSystemInfo</name>
        <values arity="List" type="Property">
        <property>
         <name>Registry</name>
         <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
          <value>Adobe</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        <property>
         <name>Registry</name>
         <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
          <value>Identity</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        <property>
         <name>Supplement</name>
         <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
          <value>0</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        </values>
       </property>
       <property>
        <name>FontDescriptor</name>
        <values arity="List" type="Property">
        <property>
         <name>FontName</name>
         <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
          <value>XJHXBN+LiberationSerif</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        <property>
         <name>Flags</name>
         <values arity="List" type="String">
          <value>Symbolic</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        <property>
         <name>FontBBox</name>
         <values arity="Array" type="Integer">
          <value>0</value>
          <value>-215</value>
          <value>717</value>
          <value>693</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        <property>
         <name>FontFile2</name>
         <values arity="Scalar" type="Boolean">
          <value>true</value>
         </values>
        </property>
        </values>
       </property>
       </values>
      </property>
      </values>
     </property>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>XMP</name>
     <values arity="Scalar" type="String">
      <value>&lt;?adobe-xap-filters esc="CRLF"?&gt;
&lt;x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='XMP toolkit 2.9.1-13, framework 1.6'&gt;
&lt;rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'&gt;
&lt;rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:pdf='http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/' pdf:Producer='GPL Ghostscript 9.07'/&gt;
&lt;rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:xmp='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'&gt;&lt;xmp:ModifyDate&gt;2019-03-07T01:08:36+02:00&lt;/xmp:ModifyDate&gt;
&lt;xmp:CreateDate&gt;2019-03-07T01:08:36+02:00&lt;/xmp:CreateDate&gt;
&lt;xmp:CreatorTool&gt;Writer&lt;/xmp:CreatorTool&gt;&lt;/rdf:Description&gt;
&lt;rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:xapMM='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/' xapMM:DocumentID='uuid:51e6bfa1-7881-11f4-0000-66494c0ba9dd'/&gt;
&lt;rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/' dc:format='application/pdf'&gt;&lt;dc:title&gt;&lt;rdf:Alt&gt;&lt;rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'&gt;Title&lt;/rdf:li&gt;&lt;/rdf:Alt&gt;&lt;/dc:title&gt;&lt;/rdf:Description&gt;
&lt;rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:pdfaid='http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/' pdfaid:part='3' pdfaid:conformance='B'/&gt;&lt;/rdf:RDF&gt;
&lt;/x:xmpmeta&gt;</value>
     </values>
    </property>
    <property>
     <name>Pages</name>
     <values arity="List" type="Property">
     <property>
      <name>Page</name>
      <values arity="List" type="Property">
      <property>
       <name>Sequence</name>
       <values arity="Scalar" type="Integer">
        <value>1</value>
       </values>
      </property>
      </values>
     </property>
     </values>
    </property>
    </values>
   </property>
  </properties>
 </repInfo>
</jhove>

MIME type application/pdf with version 1.8 is not supported.

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

JHOVE:  PDF minor version number is greater than .*
veraPDF:        File header .*%PDF-1..* (offset = .*) starts at non-zero offset or does not match the pattern %PDF-1.n, where 'n' is a single digit number between 0 and 7

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