Given that this PDF document is an interesting test-case for performance reasons, w.r.t. inline image caching, it probably can't hurt to add it to the test-suite to make it more readily available.
Considering the contents of that PDF document I'm not sure if we can include it directly in the repository, hence why a *linked* test-case was choosen here.
Given that this `assert` is only intended to catch any implementation bugs in our code, and not actually to validate the PDF data directly[1], we can avoid making this function call unconditionally.
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[1] In those cases, for example a `FormatError` should have been thrown instead.
With modern EcmaScript features, we can define these fields directly instead. Please note that for backwards compatibility purposes they are still public as before, however note that this functionality is *disabled* by default (see the `pdfBug` API option).
Also, we can (slightly) simplify the two loops used in the `toString` method.
These fields were never intended to be public, since modifying them manually would lead to inconsistent state, and with modern EcmaScript features we can now enforce this.
Also, this patch removes a couple of JSDoc comments that we generally don't use.
- For text fields
* when printing, we generate a fake font which contains some widths computed thanks to
an OffscreenCanvas and its method measureText.
In order to avoid to have to layout the glyphs ourselves, we just render all of them
in one call in the showText method in using the system sans-serif/monospace fonts.
* when saving, we continue to create the appearance streams if the fonts contain the char
but when a char is missing, we just set, in the AcroForm dict, the flag /NeedAppearances
to true and remove the appearance stream. This way, we let the different readers handle
the rendering of the strings.
- For FreeText annotations
* when printing, we use the same trick as for text fields.
* there is no need to save an appearance since Acrobat is able to infer one from the
Content entry.
These variables are left-over from the initial implementation, back when `String.prototype.padStart` didn't exist and we thus had to pad manually (using a loop).
This helps improve performance for some PDF documents with a huge number of inline images, e.g. the PDF document from issue 2618.
Given that we no longer create `Stream`-instances unconditionally, we also don't need `Dict`-instances for cached inline images (since we only access the filter).
*Please note:* This only fixes the "wrong letter" part of bug 1799927.
It appears that the simple `computeAdler32` function, used when caching inline images, generates hash collisions for some (very short) TypedArrays. In this case that leads to some of the "letters", which are actually inline images, being rendered incorrectly.
Rather than switching to another hashing algorithm, e.g. the `MurmurHash3_64` class, we simply cache using a stringified version of the inline image data as the cacheKey to prevent any future collisions. While this will (naturally) lead to slightly higher peak memory usage, it'll however be limited to the current `Parser`-instance which means that it's not persistent.
One small benefit of these changes is that we can avoid creating lots of `Stream`-instances for already cached inline images.
The purpose of this patch is twofold:
- Initialize the unicode-category data *lazily* during text-extraction, since this is completely unused during general parsing/rendering.
- Stop exposing this data in the API, since it's unused on the main-thread and it seems like it was *accidentally* included.
Obviously these changes are API-observable, but hopefully no user is depending on this. Furthermore, it's trivial for a user to re-create this unicode-category data manually with a regular expression (from the exposed `unicode` property).
Currently, during text-extraction, we're repeatedly normalizing and (when necessary) reversing the unicode-values every time. This seems a little unnecessary, since the result won't change, hence this patch moves that into the `Glyph`-instance and makes it *lazily* initialized.
Taking the `tracemonkey.pdf` document as an example: When extracting the text-content there's a total of 69236 characters but only 595 unique `Glyph`-instances, which mean a 99.1 percent cache hit-rate. Generally speaking, the longer a PDF document is the more beneficial this should be.
*Please note:* The old code is fast enough that it unfortunately seems difficult to measure a (clear) performance improvement with this patch, so I completely understand if it's deemed an unnecessary change.
In order to support opening certain corrupt PDF documents, particularly hand-edited ones, this patch adds support for letting the `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` method fallback to returning an *empty* dictionary to replace (only) the first /Page of the document.
Given that the viewer cannot initialize/load without access to the first page, this will thus allow e.g. document-level scripting to run as expected. Note that by effectively replacing a corrupt or missing first /Page in this way[1], we'll now render nothing but a *blank* page for certain cases of broken/corrupt PDF documents which may look weird.
*Please note:* This functionality is controlled via the existing `stopAtErrors` option, that can be passed to `getDocument`, since it's easy to imagine use-cases where this sort of fallback behaviour isn't desirable.
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[1] Currently we still require that a /Pages-dictionary is found though, however it *may* be possible to relax even that assumption if that becomes absolutely necessary in future corrupt documents.
Note that the "trailer"-case is already a fallback, since normally we're able to use the "xref"-operator even in corrupt documents. However, when a "trailer"-operator is found we still expect "startxref" to exist and be usable in order to advance the stream position. When that's not the case, as happens in the referenced issue, we use a simple fallback to find the first "obj" occurrence instead.
This *partially* fixes issue 15590, since without this patch we fail to find any objects at all during `XRef.indexObjects`. However, note that the PDF document is still corrupt and won't render since there's no actual /Pages-dictionary and the /Root-entry simply points to the /OpenAction-dictionary instead.
After the clean-up in PR 15616, the `PdfManager.onLoadedStream` method now only has a single call-site.
Hence why this patch suggests that we remove this method and replace it with an *optional* parameter in `PdfManager.requestLoadedStream` instead. By making the new behaviour opt-in, we'll thus not change any existing call-site.
