Articles by file format

List of knowledge base articles grouped by a file format and a validator raising an error.

application/epub+zip

JHOVE

• RSC 005 ERROR

• CSS 001 ERROR

• PKG 006 ERROR

• RSC 017 WARN

application/mxf

ffmpeg

• bpno became invalid

• local tag 0x3c0a with 0 size

application/pdf

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• A Form XObject had a BBox with a width or height of 0

• A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

• BT found inside a text block

• Couldnt find a named resource

• degenerate text matrix

• encountered more q than Q

• encountered more Q than q

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• ET found outside text block

• garbage left on stack

• ignoring zlib error incorrect data check

• Incorrect Length for stream object

• integer overflowed

• invalid operator used in text block

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• malformed number

• missing white space after number

• non standard operator found ignoring

• number uses illegal exponent form

• Page drawing error occurred

• Possible missing white space between operators

• recoverable image error

• stack underflow

• startxref offset invalid

• text operator outside text block

• unbalanced or unescaped character in string

• used invalid operator in CharProc

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

• Invalid object definition

• No document catalog dictionary

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• An embedded font is invalid

• A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

• badly escaped name

• BT found inside a text block

• circular reference to indirect object

• Couldnt find a named resource

• encountered more q than Q

• encountered more Q than q

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• ET found outside text block

• garbage left on stack

• ignoring zlib error incorrect data check

• Incorrect Length for stream object

• integer overflowed

• invalid operator used in text block

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• loca length is greater than numGlyphs in the font

• malformed number

• missing white space after number

• number uses illegal exponent form

• object lacks a required Subtype

• Page drawing error occurred

• Possible missing white space between operators

• recoverable image error

• startxref offset invalid

• text operator outside text block

• unbalanced or unescaped character in string

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Improperly formed date

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

• Invalid destination object

• Invalid object definition

• No document catalog dictionary

veraPDF

• DeviceRGB colour space is used without RGB output intent profile

• Extra spacings or missing EOL characters around indirect objectgeneration number or keywords obj and endobj

• Pages not found

• The value of CreationDate entry from the document Info dictionary and its matching XMP property xmpCreateDate are not equivalent Info CreationDate D XMP xmpCreateDate

• The value of ModDate entry from the document Info dictionary and its matching XMP property xmpModifyDate are not equivalent Info ModDate D XMP xmpModifyDate

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• A dictionary is missing a required Type key

• An embedded font is invalid

• A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

• bad trailer dictionary

• BT found inside a text block

• Cant repair xref repair already performed

• Catalog dictionary not located in file unable to proceed

• circular reference to indirect object

• Couldnt find a named resource

• Couldnt retrieve MediaBox for page using current media size

• degenerate text matrix

• Document Catalog has incorrect Type

• encountered more q than Q

• encountered more Q than q

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• ET found outside text block

• found real number when expecting int

• garbage left on stack

• ignoring zlib error incorrect data check

• Incorrect Length for stream object

• integer overflowed

• Invalid number format scientific notation

• invalid object number

• invalid operator used in text block

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• malformed number

• missing white space after number

• non standard operator found ignoring

• no startxref token found

• number uses illegal exponent form

• Object has an unrecognised Subtype

• object lacks an endobj

• object lacks a required Subtype

• Page drawing error occurred

• Page has an invalid MediaBox attribute Using the current page size

• Page has no MediaBox attribute Using the current page size

• page not found

• Page object does not have Page type

• page tree root node Count did not match the actual number of pages in the tree

• Possible missing white space between operators

• stack underflow

• startxref offset invalid

• text operator outside text block

• unbalanced or unescaped character in string

• undefined in runpdf

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Document catalog dictionary object number and trailer root ref number are inconsistent

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

• Invalid cross reference table

• Invalid object definition

• Missing startxref keyword or value

• No document catalog dictionary

• No file trailer

• No PDF trailer

veraPDF

• Actual length of the stream bytes does not match the value of the Length key in the Stream dictionary bytes

• can not locate xref table

• DeviceGray colour space is used without output intent profile

• End of file is reached

• Extra spacings or missing EOL characters around indirect objectgeneration number or keywords obj and endobj

• File header PDF offset starts at non zero offset or does not match the pattern PDF nm

• Missing ID in the document trailer

• Pages not found

• Real value out of range

• The document catalog dictionary doesnt contain metadata key or metadata stream dictionary does not contain either entry Type with value Metadata or entry Subtype with value XML

• The font program is not embedded

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• An embedded font is invalid

• A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

• BT found inside a text block

• cannot process embedded stream for font object

• degenerate text matrix

• encountered more q than Q

• encountered more Q than q

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• ET found outside text block

• garbage left on stack

• ignoring zlib error incorrect data check

• Incorrect Length for stream object

• integer overflowed

• Invalid ICC colour profile using alternate

• Invalid number format scientific notation

• invalid operator used in text block

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• loca length is greater than numGlyphs in the font

• malformed number

• missing white space after number

• non standard operator found ignoring

• number uses illegal exponent form

• Page drawing error occurred

• Possible missing white space between operators

• recoverable image error

• startxref offset invalid

• text operator outside text block

• The string data prameter for a Indexed colour space lookup is too short

• unbalanced or unescaped character in string

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Document catalog dictionary object number and trailer root ref number are inconsistent

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• A page ended after a BT had been executed and without a mtching ET

• badly escaped name

• BT found inside a text block

• encountered more q than Q

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• ET found outside text block

• garbage left on stack

• ignoring zlib error incorrect data check

• Incorrect Length for stream object

• integer overflowed

• Invalid number format scientific notation

• invalid operator used in text block

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• malformed number

• missing white space after number

• non standard operator found ignoring

• number uses illegal exponent form

• Page drawing error occurred

• Possible missing white space between operators

• stack underflow

• startxref offset invalid

• text operator outside text block

• unbalanced or unescaped character in string

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

• Invalid object definition

• No document catalog dictionary

veraPDF

• A CIDSet entry in the Font descriptor is missing or does not correctly identify all glyphs present in the embedded font subset and used for rendering

• Annotation flags are either missing or set the annotation to be hiddeninvisible or non printable F null Print null Hidden null Invisible null NoView null

• Annotations color C present true or interior color IC present false is used without specifying RGB based destination output profile

• A property is either not defined in XMP Specification or is not defined in any of the extension schemas

• DeviceGray colour space is used without output intent profile

• The font program is not embedded

• XMP property does not correspond to type null

Ghostscript

• A closing mark or had no matching mark ignoring the closing mark

• Cant repair xref repair already performed

• circular reference to indirect object

• Couldnt find a named resource

• error executing PDF token

• error reading a stream

• Invalid xref entry incorrect format

• startxref offset invalid

• xref entry not exactly bytes

• xref entry not valid format

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Improperly nested dictionary delimiters

• Invalid object definition

• No document catalog dictionary

veraPDF

• can not locate xref table

• End of file is reached

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 1n where n is a single digit number between 0 and 7

Ghostscript

• Cant repair xref repair already performed

• Couldnt find a named resource

• error executing PDF token

• invalid object number

• xref table was repaired

JHOVE

• Unexpected exception java

veraPDF

• orgverapdfpdfontcmapCMapParser getBfrangeEndFromBytes WARNING Incorrect bfrange in toUnicode CMap bfrange contains more than code

Ghostscript

• Couldnt find a named resource

• error executing PDF token

• Couldnt find a named resource

• error executing PDF token

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula

lxml

• Corrupted ZIP archive

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics

• Corrupted ZIP archive

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation

• Corrupted ZIP archive

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet

• Corrupted ZIP archive

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text

• Corrupted ZIP archive

• The metaxml of ODF file is invalid

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

libreoffice

• E ltstringvalue assertion string void failed

application/warc

Warchaeology

• payload wrong digest expected computed

JHOVE

• Document must have implicit or explicit HEAD element

• Unrecognized or missing DOCTYPE declaration validation continuing as HTML 32

Validator.nu

• error Bad element name Code point U003A is not allowed

• error Element is missing a required instance of child element

• error End tag for seen but there were unclosed elements

• error Non space characters found without seeing a doctype first Expected DOCTYPE html

• error Start tag seen but an element of the same type was already open

• error Stray start tag

• error Unclosed element

Warchaeology

• missing line separator at end of http headers

warctools

• Compressed file ended before the end of stream marker was reached

application/xhtml+xml

JHOVE

• SAXParseException Element type must be declared

• SAXParseException The content of element type html must match headbody

• SAXParseException The element type body must be terminated by the matching end tag body

application/x-siard

DBPTK-Developer

• Correspondence between metadata and table data

• Data type invalid is not in conformity with INTEGER type in contentxml

• The data type information on the column definitions in metadataxml must be identical to that in the corresponding tablenumberxsd file

• Correspondence between metadata and table data

• Data type invalid is not in conformity with INTEGER type in contentxml

• The data type information on the column definitions in metadataxml must be identical to that in the corresponding tablenumberxsd file

audio/flac

ffmpeg

• decodeframe failed

• Error while decoding stream Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid data found when processing input

• invalid frame header

• invalid residual

• invalid sync code

audio/mpeg

• Error while decoding stream Invalid data found when processing input

• Header missing

• Invalid data found when processing input

file-scraper

• invalid videocontainer stream

ffmpeg

• invalid new backstep

audio/x-aiff

• Error while decoding stream Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid PCM packet data has size but at least a size of was expected

audio/x-ms-wma

• Application provided invalid non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream

audio/x-wav

• Error while decoding stream Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid PCM packet data has size but at least a size of was expected

• Invalid sample rate

• no data tag found

• PCM A law G711 A law does not seem to be LPCM format

JHOVE

• Chunk ID character outside printable ASCII range

• Invalid chunk size

• No Format chunk found

• Unexpected end of file

image/gif

ImageMagick

• corrupt image

JHOVE

• Unknown data block type

Pillow

• Image size pixels exceeds limit of pixels could be decompression bomb DOS attack

ImageMagick

• negative or zero image size

JHOVE

• Unknown data block type

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

ImageMagick

• improper image header

JHOVE

• Invalid GIF header

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

image/jp2

ImageMagick

• Stream error while reading JP2 Header box box length is inconsistent

jpylyzer

• containsColourSpecificationBoxFalse

• containsContiguousCodestreamBoxFalse

• containsImageHeaderBoxFalse

• firstJP2HeaderBoxIsImageHeaderBoxFalse

• locationJP2HeaderBoxIsValidFalse

• warningignoring unknown box

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

image/jpeg

ImageMagick

• Bogus marker length

JHOVE

• Unexpected end of file

Pillow

• Truncated File Read

JHOVE

• File does not begin with SPIFF Exif or JFIF segment

python-image-library

• SyntaxError not a TIFF file header bExifxaII not valid

image/mpo

file-scraper

• Conflict with values imagejpeg and imagempo

image/png

ImageMagick

• IHDR CRC error

• Read Exception

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

image/tiff

ImageMagick

• Failed to allocate memory for to read TIFF directory elements of bytes each

• Not enough data for scanline expected a request for at most bytes got a request for bytes

JHOVE

• IFD offset not word aligned

• JPEGProc not defined for JPEG compression

• Premature EOF

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

image/webp

ImageMagick

• corrupt image

• insufficient image data in file

Pillow

• could not create decoder object

image/x-adobe-dng

ImageMagick

• Inputoutput error

JHOVE

• Tag out of sequence

• Type mismatch for tag expecting or saw

• Unknown data type

• Value offset not word aligned

Pillow

• cannot identify image file

image/x-dpx

dpx-validator

• Different file sizes from header and filesystem

• Offset to image is more than file size

text/html

JHOVE

• Unknown tag

Validator.nu

• Element not allowed as child of element in this context

• error A document must not include both a meta element with an httpequiv attribute whose value is contenttype and a meta element with a charset attribute

• error An img element which has an alt attribute whose value is the empty string must not have a role attribute with any value other than none or presentation

• error Attribute caption not allowed on element img at this point

• error Bad value for attribute novalidate on element form

• error Element div not allowed as child of element span in this context Suppressing further errors from this subtree

• error End tag a violates nesting rules

• error fatal Cannot recover after last error Any further errors will be ignored

• error Start tag a seen but an element of the same type was already open

• error The cellpadding attribute on the table element is obsolete Use CSS instead

• error The cellspacing attribute on the table element is obsolete Use CSS instead

• error The itemprop attribute was specified but the element is not a property of any item

JHOVE

• Unrecognized or missing DOCTYPE declaration validation continuing as HTML 32

Validator.nu

• Start tag seen without seeing a doctype first Expected DOCTYPE html

text/xml

lxml

• Element Missing child elements Expected is

• Failed document is not well formed

• failed to load external entity

• Failed to locate a schema at location

• Found encoding declaration ASCII from the file but UTF 8 was expected

• Input is not proper UTF 8 indicate encoding

• Namespace prefix xsd on is not defined

• No matching global declaration available for the validation root

• Opening and ending tag mismatch

• Schema definition probably missing from XML catalog

• The XML document is not a schema document

• This element is not expected Expected is one of

• WXS schema failed to compile

video/dv

ffmpeg

• AC EOB marker is absent pos

• Concealing bitstream errors

video/MP2T

• invalid new backstep

video/mp4

• Could not find ref with POC

• Error while decoding stream Invalid data found when processing input

• Invalid data found when processing input

• moov atom not found

• offsetlen is invalid

video/mpeg

• Warning MVs not available

• Warning MVs not available

video/quicktime

• Application provided invalid non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream

• Referenced QT chapter track not found

mediainfo

• File contains a truncated track

video/x-matroska

ffmpeg

• Truncating packet of size to

video/x-ms-asf

• Application provided invalid non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream

• Bits overconsumption at