Out of 3,977 real-world PDFs, 0.5% broke during xref pointer parsing. Not a huge number—unless you're the one parsing them. The top culprit? Junk data before the start pointer. Classic.
Other file weirdness: broken xref tables, bad object offsets, and inconsistent xref chains.
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