Results (Return codes, Error codes and Reason codes)

Reason codes

The reason codes will be printed in the command line output if a general error occurs.

1000
 Unknown reason
1001
 A parameter is wrong
1002
 A requested file could not be found
1003
 A requested folder could not be found
1004
 A requested folder is a file
1005
 A requested file is a folder
1006
 30 days trial period expired
1007
 Time limited keycode expired
1008
 Not activated (no keycode)
1009
 PDF does not contain ICC profiles
1010
 File could not be opened
1011
 File is encrypted and could not be opened for writing
1012
 File could not be saved
1013 File is damaged and needs repair

Return codes

All return codes below 100 indicate a successful operation.

0
 Successful operation

Running a profile

0 No hit, no Fixups executed
1 At least one hit with severity ‘info’, no Fixups executed
2 At least one hit with severity ‘warning’, no Fixups executed
3 At least one hit with severity ‘error’, no Fixups executed
5 No hit, Fixups have been executed
6 At least one hit with severity ‘info’, Fixups have been executed
7 At least one hit with severity ‘warning’, Fixups have been executed
8 At least one hit with severity "error", Fixups have been executed; Fixups failed

When executing the compare action

0 Compared PDFs are equal
1 Compared PDFs have differences

Errors

100
 Not serialized (no valid serialization found or keycode expired)
101
 Command line parameter error
102
 Command line syntax error (illegal command)
103
 Unknown error (internal error)
104
 File could not be opened
105
 File is encrypted and could not be opened for writing
106
 File could not be saved
107 File is damaged and needs repair
Error codes above 128 are NOT Windows (only Linux or Mac)
130
 Processing is aborted due to user cancel
132 Illegal instruction
134 Abnormal termination (e.g. out-of-memory)
136 Floating point exception (e.g. div-by-zero)
137 Kill (e.g. explicitly sent by user or by the system)
138 BUS error (e.g. bad memory access)
139 Segmentation violation (e.g. invalid memory reference)
Cells from 134-139 on Mac/Linux indicate an error (crash) of the environmental system. Please report such cases together with the details and files to [email protected]
141 Broken pipe (e.g. used for interprocess communication)
142
 Execution is cancelled after timeout
143 Termination request (e.g. explictely sent by user or by the system)
145 Child process died (e.g. used for interprocess communication)
159 Bad system call (e.g. a system call that is not supported by the kernel)

Errors for distributed processing

110
 Action is not distributable
111
 No Dispatcher is found
112
 No Satellite was found or is ready for execution

Listing of all possible codes on the command line

All Return codes and Reason codes can also be listed on the CLI, using the following command:

pdfToolbox --status

This command will also list the current licensing status of the software.