*Please note:* This is similar to the method that existed prior to PR 3848, but the new method will *only* be used as a fallback when parsing of corrupt PDF documents.
The implementation in PR 14311 unfortunately turned out to be *way* too simplistic, as evident by the recently added test-files in issue 14303, since it may *cause* infinite loops in `PDFDocument.checkLastPage` for some corrupt PDF documents.[1]
To avoid this, the easiest solution that I could come up with was to fallback to eagerly parsing the *entire* /Pages-tree when the /Count-entry validation fails during document initialization.
Fixes *at least* two of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `poppler-395-0.pdf...` and `GHOSTSCRIPT-698804-1.pdf...` documents.
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[1] The whole point of PR 14311 was obviously to *get rid of* infinte loops during document initialization, not to introduce any more of those.
Given that we're able to "render" this document, let's extend the unit-test to actually check that we're able to obtain the operatorList; although given the overall issues in the document it'll be empty.
This only applies to severely corrupt documents, where it's possible that the `Parser` throws when we try to access e.g. a /Kids-entry in the /Pages-tree.
Fixes two of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `poppler-742-0.pdf...` and `poppler-937-0.pdf...` documents.
*Please note:* While this patch on its own is sufficient to prevent the worker-thread from hanging, however in combination with PR 14311 these PDF documents will both load *and* render correctly.
Rather than focusing on the particular structure of these PDF documents, it seemed (at least to me) to make sense to try and prevent all circular references when fetching/looking-up data using the XRef table.
To avoid a solution that required tracking the references manually everywhere, the implementation settled on here instead handles that internally in the `XRef.fetch`-method. This should work, since that method *and* the `Parser`/`Lexer`-implementations are completely synchronous.
Note also that the existing `XRef`-caching, used for all data-types *except* Streams, should hopefully help to lessen the performance impact of these changes.
One *potential* problem with these changes could be certain *browser* exceptions, since those are generally not catchable in JavaScript code, however those would most likely "stop" worker-thread parsing anyway (at least I hope so).
Finally, note that I settled on returning dummy-data rather than throwing an exception. This was done to allow parsing, for the rest of the document, to continue such that *one* bad reference doesn't prevent an entire document from loading.
Fixes two of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `poppler-91414-0.zip-2.gz-53.pdf` and `poppler-91414-0.zip-2.gz-54.pdf` documents.
*This patch basically extends the approach from PR 10392, by also checking the last page.*
Currently, in e.g. the `Catalog.numPages`-getter, we're simply assuming that if the /Pages-tree has an *integer* /Count entry it must also be correct/valid.
As can be seen in the referenced PDF documents, that entry may be completely bogus which causes general parsing to breaking down elsewhere in the worker-thread (and hanging the browser).
Rather than hoping that the /Count entry is correct, similar to all other data found in PDF documents, we obviously need to validate it. This turns out to be a little less straightforward than one would like, since the only way to do this (as far as I know) is to parse the *entire* /Pages-tree and essentially counting the pages.
To avoid doing that for all documents, this patch tries to take a short-cut by checking if the last page (based on the /Count entry) can be successfully fetched. If so, we assume that the /Count entry is correct and use it as-is, otherwise we'll iterate through (potentially) the *entire* /Pages-tree to determine the number of pages.
Unfortunately these changes will have a number of *somewhat* negative side-effects, please see a possibly incomplete list below, however I cannot see a better way to address this bug.
- This will slow down initial loading/rendering of all documents, at least by some amount, since we now need to fetch/parse more of the /Pages-tree in order to be able to access the *last* page of the PDF documents.
- For poorly generated PDF documents, where the entire /Pages-tree only has *one* level, we'll unfortunately need to fetch/parse the *entire* /Pages-tree to get to the last page. While there's a cache to help reduce repeated data lookups, this will affect initial loading/rendering of *some* long PDF documents,
- This will affect the `disableAutoFetch = true` mode negatively, since we now need to fetch/parse more data during document initialization. While the `disableAutoFetch = true` mode should still be helpful in larger/longer PDF documents, for smaller ones the effect/usefulness may unfortunately be lost.
As one *small* additional bonus, we should now also be able to support opening PDF documents where the /Pages-tree /Count entry is completely invalid (e.g. contains a non-integer value).
Fixes two of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `poppler-67295-0.pdf` and `poppler-85140-0.pdf` documents.
For this particular PDF document, we have `/W [1 2 166666666666666666666666666]` which obviously makes no sense.
While this patch makes no attempt at actually validating the entries in the /W-array, we'll now simply abort all processing when the end of the PDF document has been reached (thus preventing hanging the browser).
Please note that this patch doesn't enable the PDF document to be loaded/rendered, but at least it fails "correctly" now.
Fixes one of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `REDHAT-1531897-0.pdf`document.
This bug was surprisingly difficult to track down, since it didn't just depend on range-requests being used but also on how quickly the document was loaded. To even be able to reproduce this locally, I had to use a very small `rangeChunkSize`-value (note the unit-test).
The cause of this bug is a bogus entry in the XRef-table, causing us to attempt to request data from *beyond* the actual document size and thus getting into an infinite loop.
Fixes *one* of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `PDFBOX-4352-0.pdf` document.
In the `BaseViewer` this cache is mostly relevant in the `disableAutoFetch = true` mode, since the pages are being initialized *lazily* in that case.
In the `PDFThumbnailViewer` this cache is mostly used for thumbnails that are actually being rendered, as opposed to those created directly from the "regular" pages.
Please note that I'm not suggesting that we remove these caches because they're only used in some situations, but rather because they're for all intents and purposes actually *redundant*. In the API itself, we're already caching both the page-promises and the actual pages themselves on the `WorkerTransport`-instance.
Hence these viewer-caches aren't really necessary in practice, and adds what to me mostly seems like an unnecessary level of indirection.[1]
Given that the viewer now relies on caching in the API itself, this patch also adds a new unit-test to ensure that page-caching works (and keep working) as expected.
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[1] In the `WorkerTransport.getPage`-method the parameter is being validated on every call, but that's hardly enough code to warrant keeping the "duplicate" caches in the viewer in my opinion.
*Please note:* These changes will primarily benefit longer documents, somewhat at the expense of e.g. one-page documents.
The existing `PDFDocumentProxy.getStats` function, which in the default viewer is called for each rendered page, requires a round-trip to the worker-thread in order to obtain the current document stats. In the default viewer, we currently make one such API-call for *every rendered* page.
This patch proposes replacing that method with a *synchronous* `PDFDocumentProxy.stats` getter instead, combined with re-factoring the worker-thread code by adding a `DocStats`-class to track Stream/Font-types and *only send* them to the main-thread *the first time* that a type is encountered.
Note that in practice most PDF documents only use a fairly limited number of Stream/Font-types, which means that in longer documents most of the `PDFDocumentProxy.getStats`-calls will return the same data.[1]
This re-factoring will obviously benefit longer document the most[2], and could actually be seen as a regression for one-page documents, since in practice there'll usually be a couple of "DocStats" messages sent during the parsing of the first page. However, if the user zooms/rotates the document (which causes re-rendering), note that even a one-page document would start to benefit from these changes.
Another benefit of having the data available/cached in the API is that unless the document stats change during parsing, repeated `PDFDocumentProxy.stats`-calls will return *the same identical* object.
This is something that we can easily take advantage of in the default viewer, by now *only* reporting "documentStats" telemetry[3] when the data actually have changed rather than once per rendered page (again beneficial in longer documents).
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[1] Furthermore, the maximium number of `StreamType`/`FontType` are `10` respectively `12`, which means that regardless of the complexity and page count in a PDF document there'll never be more than twenty-two "DocStats" messages sent; see 41ac3f0c07/src/shared/util.js (L206-L232)
[2] One example is the `pdf.pdf` document in the test-suite, where rendering all of its 1310 pages only result in a total of seven "DocStats" messages being sent from the worker-thread.
[3] Reporting telemetry, in Firefox, includes using `JSON.stringify` on the data and then sending an event to the `PdfStreamConverter.jsm`-code.
In that code the event is handled and `JSON.parse` is used to retrieve the data, and in the "documentStats"-case we'll then iterate through the data to avoid double-reporting telemetry; see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/8f4c180b87e52f3345ef8a3432d6e54bd1eb18dc/toolkit/components/pdfjs/content/PdfStreamConverter.jsm#515-549
- it aims to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931481;
- real space chars are pushed in the chunk but when there is an extra spacing, the next char position must be compared with the previous one;
- for example, an extra spacing can cancel a space so visually there are no space.
- First step to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737260;
- several interactive pdfs use the possibility to hide/show buttons to show different icons;
- render pushbuttons on their own canvas and then insert it the annotation_layer;
- update test/driver.js in order to convert canvases for pushbuttons into images.
With the previous patch, this helper function is no longer used and keeping it around will simply increase the size of the builds.
This removal is purposely done *separately*, to make it easy to revert the patch in the future if this helper function would become useful again.
This small change will help validate an important part of the upcoming re-factoring, regarding the *correct* iteration of the `Set` in the `PDFPageViewBuffer.resize` method in particular.
The `PDFPageViewBuffer`-code is very important for the correct function of the viewer, but it's currently not tested at all.
While the `PDFPageViewBuffer` is obviously intended to be used with `PDFPageView`-instances, it only accesses a couple of `PDFPageView` properties/methods and consequently it's fairly easy to unit-test this code with dummy-data.
These unit-tests should help improve our confidence in this code, and will also come in handy with other changes that I'm working on (regarding modernizing and re-factoring the `PDFPageViewBuffer`-code).
Note how in `PDFPageViewBuffer.resize` we're manually iterating through the visible pages in order to build a Set of the visible page `id`s. By instead moving the building of this Set into the `getVisibleElements` helper function, as part of the existing parsing, this code becomes *ever so slightly* more efficient.
Furthermore, more direct access to the visible page `id`s also come in handy in other parts of the viewer as well.
In the `BaseViewer.isPageVisible` method we no longer need to loop through the visible pages, but can instead directly check if the pageNumber is visible.
In the `PDFRenderingQueue.getHighestPriority` method, when checking for "holes" in the page layout, we can also avoid some unnecessary look-ups this way.
Very short strings can narrowly miss the existing Bidi-detection threshold, leading to incorrect text-selection and copying behaviour.
In my testing, neither Adobe Reader or PDFium seem to handle copying "correctly" for this document. Hence it's not entirely clear to me that we actually want to fix this, since tweaking these heuristics can *obviously* cause regressions elsewhere (and our test coverage for RTL-text isn't exactly great).
- PR #13257 fixed a lot of issues but not all and this patch aims to fix almost all remaining issues.
- the idea in this new patch is to compare position of new glyph with the last position where a glyph has been drawn;
- no space are "drawn": it just moves the cursor but they aren't added in the chunk;
- so this way a space followed by a cursor move can be treated as only one space: it helps to merge all spaces into one.
- to make difference between real spaces and tracking ones, we used a factor of the space width (from the font)
- it was a pretty good idea in general but it fails with some fonts where space was too big:
- in Poppler, they're using a factor of the font size: this is an excellent idea (<= 0.1 * fontSize implies tracking space).
*Please note:* This is a tentative patch, since I don't have the necessary a11y-software to actually test it.
To avoid having to add a new API-method just for a single string, I figured that adding the new property to the existing `documentInfo`-data (accessed via `PDFDocumentProxy.getMetadata` in the API) will hopefully be deemed acceptable.
Looking at the code, I do have to agree with the point made in issue 12731 about it being unexpected/unhelpful that the `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method isn't directly usable with the "find"-event.
The reason for it being this way is, as so often, for historical reasons: The `executeCommand`-method was added (just) prior to the introduction of the `EventBus` in the viewer.
Obviously we cannot simply change the existing `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method, since that'd be a breaking change in code which has existed for over five years.
Initially I figured that we could simply add a new method in `PDFFindController` that'd accept the state from the "find"-event, however after thinking about this and looking through the use-cases in the default viewer I settled on a slightly different approach: Let the `PDFFindController` just listen for the "find"-event (on the `EventBus`-instance) directly instead, which also removes one level of (unneeded) indirection during searching in the default viewer.
For GENERIC builds of the PDF.js library, the old `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method is still available with a deprecation warning.
Note how both the annotationLayer and the document outline will apply various URL-related options when creating the link-elements.
For consistency the `xfaLayer`-rendering should obviously use the same options, to ensure that the existing options are indeed applied to all URLs regardless of where they originate.
Having recently worked with, and reviewed patches touching, this code it seemed that it's probably not a bad idea to move that functionality into `createValidAbsoluteUrl` as new options instead.
For the `addDefaultProtocolToUrl` functionality in particular, the existing helper function was not only moved but slightly improved as well. Looking at the code, I realized that there's a small risk that it would incorrectly match a *relative* URL-string too.
With these changes, the `createValidAbsoluteUrl` call-sites in the `src/core/`-code can be simplified a little bit.
*Please note:* This patch may, indirectly, change the format of the `unsafeUrl`-property returned with relevant Annotations and OutlineItems; hence the `api-minor` tag.
However, I'd argue that it's actually more correct this way since the whole purpose of `unsafeUrl` is/was to return the URL data as-is without any parsing done.
- it aims to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716758;
- some buttons have a JS action with the pattern `app.launchURL(...)` (or similar) so extract when it's possible the url and generate a <a> element with the href equals to the found url;
- pdf.js already had some code to handle that so this patch slightly refactor that.
In order to implement this, we utilize the existing `bidi` function to infer the text-direction of /T and /Contents entries. While this may not be perfect in cases where one PopupAnnotation mixes LTR and RTL languages, it should work well enough in most cases.
To avoid having to add *two new* properties in lots of annotations, supplementing the existing `title`/`contents`-properties, this patch instead re-factors the existing code such that the properties are replaced by Objects (containing `str` and `dir`).
*Please note:* In order avoid breaking existing third-party implementations, `GENERIC`-builds of the PDF.js library will still provide the old `title`/`contents`-properties on annotations returned by `PDFPageProxy.getAnnotations`.
- In the pdf in issue #14071, some select fields don't contain any values;
- the corresponding node has a bindItems and a bind elements and _bindItems function was just not called.
With this patch we'll ensure that only valid absolute URLs can be used in XFA documents, similar to the existing validation done for "regular" PDF documents.
Furthermore, we'll also attempt to add a default protocol (i.e. `http`) to URLs beginning with "www." in XFA documents as well; this on its own is enough to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731240
- it aims to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1719148;
- JS can set a property for a non-rendered annotation using the annotationStorage but the other unset default properties must be used when the annotation is finally rendered;
- so this patch just adds the properties already set in the annotationStorage to the default value.
