Some arabic chars like \ufe94 could be searched in a pdf, hence it must be normalized
when creating the search query. So to avoid to duplicate the normalization code,
everything is moved in the find controller.
The previous code to normalize text was using NFKC but with a hardcoded map, hence it
has been replaced by the use of normalize("NFKC") (it helps to reduce the bundle size
by 30kb).
In playing with this \ufe94 char, I noticed that the bidi algorithm wasn't taking into
account some RTL unicode ranges, the generated font wasn't embedding the mapping this
char and the unicode ranges in the OS/2 table weren't up-to-date.
When normalized some chars can be replaced by several ones and it induced to have
some extra chars in the text layer. To avoid any regression, when copying some text
from the text layer, a copied string is normalized (NFKC) before being put in the
clipboard (it works like this in either Acrobat or Chrome).
This method was originally added in PR 1320, eleven years ago, however it doesn't appear to ever have been used (not even from the start).
Furthermore, this method also tries to access a property that doesn't exist (`this.out`) and then call a method that also doesn't exist (`writeByteArray`).
In looking at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706451 I noticed that bug2.pdf was pretty
slow to load for such a basic file.
In profiling I noticed that a lot of time is spent in Array.concat, hence this patch use Array.push when
it's possible (it's now ~3 times faster).
The changes in PR 16238 were intended specifically for Node.js environments, however they accidentally applied to older browsers as well.
*Please note:* In up-to-date browsers `Path2D` is available in Workers, which should be connected to the introduction of `OffscreenCanvas`.
Currently we have two separate image-caches on the worker-thread:
- A local one, which is unique to each `PartialEvaluator.getOperatorList` invocation. This one caches both names *and* references, since image-resources may be accessed in either way.
- A global one, which applies to the entire PDF documents and all its pages. This one only caches references, since nothing else would work.
This patch introduces a third image-cache, which essentially sits "between" the two existing ones. The new `RegionalImageCache`[1] will be usable throughout a `PartialEvaluator` instance, and consequently it *only* caches references, which thus allows us to keep track of repeated image-resources found in e.g. different /Form and /SMask objects.
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[1] For lack of a better word, since naming things is hard...
*Please note:* This parameter has never been used within the PDF.js library/viewer itself, and it was only ever added for backwards compatibility reasons.
This parameter was added in PR 7475, over six years ago, to try and optionally maintain the previous *default* text-extraction behaviour.
However as part of the general text-extraction improvements in PR 13257, almost two years ago, the `disableCombineTextItems` functionality was accidentally "broken" in various ways. Note how the only (very basic) unit-test was updated in a way that doesn't really make sense, since generally speaking you'd expect that using the option should result in *more* (or at least the same number of) text-items. Furthermore there's also the recent issue 16209, where the option causes almost all textContent to be concatenated together.
Hence this patch proposes that we simply remove the `disableCombineTextItems` option since it's essentially unused/untested functionality, as evident from the fact that it took almost two years for someone to notice that it's broken.
Originally we used helper functions for checking if something was a Dictionary or Stream, and then having an initial `typeof` check probably made sense.
However, given that we're using `instanceof` nowadays the additional check longer seems necessary.
Currently we're *virtually* duplicating the same code, for validating quotation marks, twice in this helper function.
The size decrease is quite small (107 bytes) and this makes the code slightly harder to reader, hence I completely understand if this patch is rejected.
Having just reviewed a patch touching this code, I couldn't help noticing that an `Object` isn't really the optimal data-structure for this and nowadays we can do better by using a `Set` instead.
With the previous commit this is now completely unused in API, hence it can be removed. This is done in a separate commit to make it easier to re-instate it, would the need ever arise.
The current value originated in PR 2317, and in the decade that have passed the amount of RAM available in (most) devices should have increased a fair bit.
Nowadays we also do a much better job of detecting repeated images at both the page- and document-level, which helps reduce overall memory-usage in many documents.
Finally the constant is also moved into the `src/shared/util.js` file, since it was implicitly used on both the main- and worker-thread previously.
This simply extends the approach in PR 10727 to also cover Patterns, which shouldn't be a common occurrence in Type3 fonts (since this is the first issue we've seen).
This was deprecated in PR 15758, which has now been included in three official PDF.js releases.
While PR 15880 did limit the bundle-size impact of this functionality on e.g. the Firefox PDF Viewer, it still leads to some unnecessary "bloat" that these changes remove.
Furthermore, with this being deprecated there'd also be no effort put into e.g. extending the `UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES` list when handling future error cases.
The idea is to encode large image in BMP format (which is very simple and doesn't
require to compute any checksums) and then use createImageBitmap with a BMP blob
(which doesn't suffer of the Canvas/ImageData limits).
From a performance point of view, it isn't crazy (generating a large blob + decoding
it on the main thread is really not ideal) but at least we've something to display
which is a way better than a blank page (and one can notice that most of the time is
spent in decoding the image from the pdf stream).
PDF 32000-1:2008 7.10.5.1 "Type 4 (PostScript Calculator) Functions"
defers to the PostScript Language Reference for the description of these
functions. The PostScript Language Reference, third edition chapter 8
"Operators" defines the `angle` type as a "number of degrees". Section
8.1 defines "angle `sin` real", "angle `cos` real", and "num den `atan`
angle". The documentation for `atan` further states that it will return
an angle in degrees between 0 and 360.
Handle these operators correctly in `PostScriptEvaluator.execute`.
Convert the inputs to `sin` and `cos` from degrees to radians for use
with `Math.sin` and `Math.cos`. Correctly pop two values from the stack
for `atan`, use `Math.atan2`, and convert from radians to (positive)
degrees.
We introduced the use of OffscreenCanvas in #14754 and this patch aims
to use them for all kind of images.
It'll slightly improve performances (and maybe slightly decrease memory use).
Since an image can be rendered in using some transfer maps but because of
OffscreenCanvas we don't have the underlying pixels array the transfer maps
stuff is re-implemented in using the SVG filter feComponentTransfer.
Currently we repeat the `FeatureTest.isOffscreenCanvasSupported` checks all over the worker-thread code, and with upcoming changes this will become even "worse".
Hence this patch, which changes the *worker-thread* default value for the `isOffscreenCanvasSupported`-parameter to `false` and moves the feature-testing into the `BasePdfManager`-constructor.
*Please note:* This patch is written using the GitHub UI, since I'm currently without a dev machine, so hopefully it works correctly.
I noticed several 'Path not found' errors because of a field called #subform[2].
From the XFA specs, the hash is used for a class of elements in the template tree.
When we're looking for a node in the datasets tree, it doesn't make sense to search
for a class. Hence the path element starting with a hash are just skipped.
Given that this helper function is only used on the worker-thread, there's no reason to duplicate it in both of the *built* `pdf.js` and `pdf.worker.js` files.
Currently these classes take a bunch of parameters (somewhat randomly ordered), probably because this is very old code that's been extended over the years.
Hence this patch changes the constructors to use parameter-objects instead, which improves consistency and (slightly) reduces the amount of code as well.
*Please note:* Also removes the `msgHandler`-property on these classes, since I cannot find a single call-site that accesses it.
