With the changes in previous patches, the `disableCreateObjectURL` option/functionality is no longer used for anything in the API and/or in the Worker code.
Note however that there's some functionality, mainly related to file loading/downloading, in the GENERIC version of the default viewer which still depends on this option.
Hence the `disableCreateObjectURL` option (and related compatibility code) is moved into the viewer, see e.g. `web/app_options.js`, such that it's still available in the default viewer.
Currently some JPEG images are decoded by the built-in PDF.js decoder in `src/core/jpg.js`, while others attempt to use the browser JPEG decoder. This inconsistency seem unfortunate for a number of reasons:
- It adds, compared to the other image formats supported in the PDF specification, a fair amount of code/complexity to the image handling in the PDF.js library.
- The PDF specification support JPEG images with features, e.g. certain ColorSpaces, that browsers are unable to decode natively. Hence, determining if a JPEG image is possible to decode natively in the browser require a non-trivial amount of parsing. In particular, we're parsing (part of) the raw JPEG data to extract certain marker data and we also need to parse the ColorSpace for the JPEG image.
- While some JPEG images may, for all intents and purposes, appear to be natively supported there's still cases where the browser may fail to decode some JPEG images. In order to support those cases, we've had to implement a fallback to the PDF.js JPEG decoder if there's any issues during the native decoding. This also means that it's no longer possible to simply send the JPEG image to the main-thread and continue parsing, but you now need to actually wait for the main-thread to indicate success/failure first.
In practice this means that there's a code-path where the worker-thread is forced to wait for the main-thread, while the reverse should *always* be the case.
- The native decoding, for anything except the *simplest* of JPEG images, result in increased peak memory usage because there's a handful of short-lived copies of the JPEG data (see PR 11707).
Furthermore this also leads to data being *parsed* on the main-thread, rather than the worker-thread, which you usually want to avoid for e.g. performance and UI-reponsiveness reasons.
- Not all environments, e.g. Node.js, fully support native JPEG decoding. This has, historically, lead to some issues and support requests.
- Different browsers may use different JPEG decoders, possibly leading to images being rendered slightly differently depending on the platform/browser where the PDF.js library is used.
Originally the implementation in `src/core/jpg.js` were unable to handle all of the JPEG images in the test-suite, but over the last couple of years I've fixed (hopefully) all of those issues.
At this point in time, there's two kinds of failure with this patch:
- Changes which are basically imperceivable to the naked eye, where some pixels in the images are essentially off-by-one (in all components), which could probably be attributed to things such as different rounding behaviour in the browser/PDF.js JPEG decoder.
This type of "failure" accounts for the *vast* majority of the total number of changes in the reference tests.
- Changes where the JPEG images now looks *ever so slightly* blurrier than with the native browser decoder. For quite some time I've just assumed that this pointed to a general deficiency in the `src/core/jpg.js` implementation, however I've discovered when comparing two viewers side-by-side that the differences vanish at higher zoom levels (usually around 200% is enough).
Basically if you disable [this downscaling in canvas.js](8fb82e939c/src/display/canvas.js (L2356-L2395)), which is what happens when zooming in, the differences simply vanish!
Hence I'm pretty satisfied that there's no significant problems with the `src/core/jpg.js` implementation, and the problems are rather tied to the general quality of the downscaling algorithm used. It could even be seen as a positive that *all* images now share the same downscaling behaviour, since this actually fixes one old bug; see issue 7041.
Currently image resources, as opposed to e.g. font resources, are handled exclusively on a page-specific basis. Generally speaking this makes sense, since pages are separate from each other, however there's PDF documents where many (or even all) pages actually references exactly the same image resources (through the XRef table). Hence, in some cases, we're decoding the *same* images over and over for every page which is obviously slow and wasting both CPU and memory resources better used elsewhere.[1]
Obviously we cannot simply treat all image resources as-if they're used throughout the entire PDF document, since that would end up increasing memory usage too much.[2]
However, by introducing a `GlobalImageCache` in the worker we can track image resources that appear on more than one page. Hence we can switch image resources from being page-specific to being document-specific, once the image resource has been seen on more than a certain number of pages.
In many cases, such as e.g. the referenced issue, this patch will thus lead to reduced memory usage for image resources. Scrolling through all pages of the document, there's now only a few main-thread copies of the same image data, as opposed to one for each rendered page (i.e. there could theoretically be *twenty* copies of the image data).
While this obviously benefit both CPU and memory usage in this case, for *very* large image data this patch *may* possibly increase persistent main-thread memory usage a tiny bit. Thus to avoid negatively affecting memory usage too much in general, particularly on the main-thread, the `GlobalImageCache` will *only* cache a certain number of image resources at the document level and simply fallback to the default behaviour.
Unfortunately the asynchronous nature of the code, with ranged/streamed loading of data, actually makes all of this much more complicated than if all data could be assumed to be immediately available.[3]
*Please note:* The patch will lead to *small* movement in some existing test-cases, since we're now using the built-in PDF.js JPEG decoder more. This was done in order to simplify the overall implementation, especially on the main-thread, by limiting it to only the `OPS.paintImageXObject` operator.
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[1] There's e.g. PDF documents that use the same image as background on all pages.
[2] Given that data stored in the `commonObjs`, on the main-thread, are only cleared manually through `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup`. This as opposed to data stored in the `objs` of each page, which is automatically removed when the page is cleaned-up e.g. by being evicted from the cache in the default viewer.
[3] If the latter case were true, we could simply check for repeat images *before* parsing started and thus avoid handling *any* duplicate image resources.
With these changes SystemJS is now only used, during development, on the worker-thread and in the unit/font-tests, since Firefox is currently missing support for worker modules; please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687
Hence all the JavaScript files in the `web/` and `src/display/` folders are now loaded *natively* by the browser (during development) using standard `import` statements/calls, thanks to a nice `import-maps` polyfill.
*Please note:* As soon as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687 is fixed in Firefox, we should be able to remove all traces of SystemJS and thus finally be able to use every possible modern JavaScript feature.
As part of trying to reduce the usage of SystemJS in the development viewer, this patch is a necessary step that will allow removal of some `require` statements.
Currently this uses `SystemJS.import` in non-PRODUCTION mode, but it should be possible to replace those with standard *dynamic* `import` calls in the future.
This replaces some additional `require`/`exports` usage with standard `import`/`export` statements instead.
Hence another, small, part in the effort to reduce the reliance on SystemJS-specific functionality in the development viewer.
Having `assert` calls without a message string isn't very helpful when debugging, and it turns out that it's easy enough to make use of ESLint to enforce better `assert` call-sites.
In a couple of cases the `assert` calls were changed to "regular" throwing of errors instead, since that seemed more appropriate.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-syntax
We already rendered the name for radio buttons, but it was missing for
all other interactive form elements. This commit adds that so that
values entered in form elements can be read based on the element name.
*This patch implements https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/11777#issuecomment-609741348*
This extends the work from PR 11773 and 11777 further, by immediately releasing the `font.data` property once the font been attached to the DOM. By not unnecessarily holding onto this data on the main-thread, we'll thus reduce the memory usage of fonts even further (especially beneficial in longer documents with composite fonts).
The new behaviour is controlled by the recently added `fontExtraProperties` API option (adding a new option just for this patch didn't seem necessary), since there's one edge-case in the SVG renderer where the `font.data` property is necessary (see the `pdf2svg` example).
Note that while the default viewer does run clean-up with an idle timeout, that timeout will be reset whenever rendering occurs *or* when scrolling happens in the viewer. In practice this means that unless the user doesn't interact with the viewer in *any* way during an extended period of time, currently set to 30 seconds, the `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` method will never be called and font resources will thus not be cleaned-up.
As evident from the code, `PageViewport` only supports[1] `rotation` values which are a multiple of 90 degrees. Besides it being somewhat difficult to imagine meaningful use-cases for a non-multiple of 90 degrees `rotation`, the code also becomes both simpler and more efficient by not having to consider arbitrary `rotation` values.
However, any invalid rotation will *silently* fallback to assume zero `rotation` which probably isn't great for e.g. `PDFPageProxy.getViewport` in the API. Hence this patch, which will now enforce that only valid `rotation` values are accepted.
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[1] As far as I can tell, from looking through the history, nothing else has ever been supported either.
*Please note:* These changes were done automatically, using the `gulp lint --fix` command.
This rule is already enabled in mozilla-central, see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/567b68b8ff4b6d607ba34a6f1926873d21a7b4d7/tools/lint/eslint/eslint-plugin-mozilla/lib/configs/recommended.js#103-104
The main advantage, besides improved consistency, of this rule is that it reduces the size of the code (by 3 bytes for each case). In the PDF.js code-base there's close to 8000 instances being fixed by the `dot-notation` ESLint rule, which end up reducing the size of even the *built* files significantly; the total size of the `gulp mozcentral` build target changes from `3 247 456` to `3 224 278` bytes, which is a *reduction* of `23 178` bytes (or ~0.7%) for a completely mechanical change.
A large number of these changes affect the (large) lookup tables used on the worker-thread, but given that they are still initialized lazily I don't *think* that the new formatting this patch introduces should undo any of the improvements from PR 6915.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/dot-notation
This patch fixes yet another instalment in the never-ending series of "what the *bleep* was I thinking", by changing the `PDFDocumentProxy.getViewerPreferences` method to return `null` by default.
Not only is this method now consistent with many other API methods, for the data not present case, but it also avoids having to e.g. loop through an object to check if it's actually empty (note the old unit-test).
Please note that these changes were done automatically, using `gulp lint --fix`.
Given that the major version number was increased, there's a fair number of (primarily whitespace) changes; please see https://prettier.io/blog/2020/03/21/2.0.0.html
In order to reduce the size of these changes somewhat, this patch maintains the old "arrowParens" style for now (once mozilla-central updates Prettier we can simply choose the same formatting, assuming it will differ here).
At this point in time, compared to when the "ignore single-char" code was added, we *should* generally be doing a much better job of combining text into as few chunks as possible.
However, there's still bad cases where we're not able to combine text as much as one would like, which is why I'm *not* proposing to simply measure/scale all text. Instead this patch will to only measure/scale single-char text in cases where the horizontal/vertical scale is off significantly, since that's were you'd expect bad text-selection behaviour otherwise.
Note that most of the movement caused by this patch is with Type3 fonts, which is a somewhat special font type and one where our current text-selection behaviour is probably the least good.
For years now, the `Font.exportData` method has (because of its previous implementation) been exporting many properties despite them being completely unused on the main-thread and/or in the API.
This is unfortunate, since among those properties there's a number of potentially very large data-structures, containing e.g. Arrays and Objects, which thus have to be first structured cloned and then stored on the main-thread.
With the changes in this patch, we'll thus by default save memory for *every* `Font` instance created (there can be a lot in longer documents). The memory savings obviously depends a lot on the actual font data, but some approximate figures are: For non-embedded fonts it can save a couple of kilobytes, for simple embedded fonts a handful of kilobytes, and for composite fonts the size of this auxiliary can even be larger than the actual font program itself.
All-in-all, there's no good reason to keep exporting these properties by default when they're unused. However, since we cannot be sure that every property is unused in custom implementations of the PDF.js library, this patch adds a new `getDocument` option (named `fontExtraProperties`) that still allows access to the following properties:
- "cMap": An internal data structure, only used with composite fonts and never really intended to be exposed on the main-thread and/or in the API.
Note also that the `CMap`/`IdentityCMap` classes are a lot more complex than simple Objects, but only their "internal" properties survive the structured cloning used to send data to the main-thread. Given that CMaps can often be *very* large, not exporting them can also save a fair bit of memory.
- "defaultEncoding": An internal property used with simple fonts, and used when building the glyph mapping on the worker-thread. Considering how complex that topic is, and given that not all font types are handled identically, exposing this on the main-thread and/or in the API most likely isn't useful.
- "differences": An internal property used with simple fonts, and used when building the glyph mapping on the worker-thread. Considering how complex that topic is, and given that not all font types are handled identically, exposing this on the main-thread and/or in the API most likely isn't useful.
- "isSymbolicFont": An internal property, used during font parsing and building of the glyph mapping on the worker-thread.
- "seacMap": An internal map, only potentially used with *some* Type1/CFF fonts and never intended to be exposed in the API. The existing `Font.{charToGlyph, charToGlyphs}` functionality already takes this data into account when handling text.
- "toFontChar": The glyph map, necessary for mapping characters to glyphs in the font, which is built upon the various encoding information contained in the font dictionary and/or font program. This is not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "toUnicode": The unicode map, necessary for text-extraction to work correctly, which is built upon the ToUnicode/CMap information contained in the font dictionary, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "vmetrics": An array of width data used with fonts which are composite *and* vertical, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "widths": An array of width data used with most fonts, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
Given the way that "classes" were previously implemented in PDF.js, using regular functions and closures, there's a fair number of false positives when the `no-shadow` ESLint rule was enabled.
Note that while *some* of these `eslint-disable` statements can be removed if/when the relevant code is converted to proper `class`es, we'll probably never be able to get rid of all of them given our naming/coding conventions (however I don't really see this being a problem).
Please note that the `setPDFNetworkStreamFactory` functionality isn't exposed in the public API, i.e. not listed among the exports in the `src/pdf.js` file, and that even if it were it wouldn't really be useful considering that none of the `PDFNetworkStream`/`PDFFetchStream`/`PDFNodeStream` classes are exported either.
These methods were deprecated already in PDF.js version `2.1.266`, see PRs 10246 and 10369, and were converted to throw `Error`s upon invocation in PDF.js version `2.4.456`, see PR 11219.
Hence it ought to be possible to remove these methods now.
*This is part of a series of patches that will try to split PR 11566 into smaller chunks, to make reviewing more feasible.*
Once all the code has been fixed, we'll be able to eventually enable the ESLint no-shadow rule; see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-shadow
This property has never been documented and/or *intentionally* exposed through the API, instead the `PDFPageProxy.pageNumber` property is the documented/intended API to use here.
Hence pageIndex is changed to a "private" property on `PDFPageProxy` instances, and internal API functionality is also updated to *consistently* use `this._pageIndex` rather than a mix of formats.
Rather than duplicating the lookup and caching in multiple files, it seems easier to simply move all of this functionality into `src/shared/util.js` instead.
This will also help avoid a bunch of ESLint errors once the `no-shadow` rule is eventually enabled.
The only reason for the `return undefined;` lines was to appease the ESLint `consistent-return` rule, but that's not actually necessary if you make use of the fact that the method is `async` and that we can thus await the Promise rather than returning it.
This patch deprecates the existing `getOpenActionDestination` API method, in favor of a better and more general `getOpenAction` method instead. (For now JavaScript actions, related to printing, are still handled as before.)
By clearly separating "regular" Print actions from the JavaScript handling, it's thus possible to get rid of the somewhat annoying and strictly incorrect warning when the viewer loads.
It's no longer necessary to special-case this getter in the `GenericFontLoader` case, since the GENERIC build hasn't been using `mozPrintCallback` for years now (furthermore Firefox 63 is really old as well).
Please note that these changes do *not* affect the *public* interface of the `Metadata` class, but only touches internal structures.[1]
These changes were prompted by looking at the `getAll` method, which simply returns the "private" metadata object to the consumer. This seems wrong conceptually, since it allows way too easy/accidental changes to the internal parsed metadata.
As part of fixing this, the internal metadata was changed to use a `Map` rather than a plain Object.
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[1] Basically, we shouldn't need to worry about someone depending on internal implementation details.
- Remove the "capturing group" in the regular expression that removes leading "junk" from the raw metadata, since it's not necessary here (it's simply a case of too much copy-pasting in a prior patch).
According to [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Cheatsheet#Groups_and_ranges) you want to, for performance reasons, avoid "capturing groups" unless actually needed.
- Add inline comments to document a bunch of magic values in the code.
Given that all `TypedArray` polyfills were removed in PDF.js version `2.0`, since native support is now required, this branch has been dead code for awhile.
In practice it's extremely rare[1] for the padding to be zero in *all* components, hence it seems better to just set it directly rather than creating a temporary variable and checking for the "no padding"-case.
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[1] In the `tracemonkey.pdf` file that only happens with `0.08%` of all text elements.
This patch makes the following changes, to improve these API methods:
- Let `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` return a boolean indicating if clean-up actually happened, since ongoing rendering will block clean-up.
Besides being used in other parts of this patch, it seems that an API user may also be interested in the return value given that clean-up isn't *guaranteed* to happen.
- Let `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` return the promise indicating when clean-up is finished.
- Improve the JSDoc comment for `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` to mention that clean-up is triggered on *both* threads (without going into unnecessary specifics regarding what *exactly* said data actually is).
Add a note in the JSDoc comment about not calling this method when rendering is ongoing.
- Change `WorkerTransport.startCleanup` to throw an `Error` if it's called when rendering is ongoing, to prevent rendering from breaking.
Please note that this won't stop *worker-thread* clean-up from happening (since there's no general "something is rendering"-flag), however I'm not sure if that's really a problem; but please don't quote me on that :-)
All of the caches that's being cleared in `Catalog.cleanup`, on the worker-thread, *should* be re-filled automatically even if cleared *during* parsing/rendering, and the only thing that probably happens is that e.g. font data would have to be re-parsed.
On the main-thread, on the other hand, clearing the caches is more-or-less guaranteed to cause rendering errors, since the rendering code in `src/display/canvas.js` isn't able to re-request any image/font data that's suddenly being pulled out from under it.
- Last, but not least, add a couple of basic unit-tests for the clean-up functionality.
This should hopefully be useful in environments where restrictive CSPs are in effect.
In most cases the replacement is entirely straighforward, and there's only a couple of special cases:
- For the `src/display/font_loader.js` and `web/pdf_outline_viewer.js `cases, since the elements aren't appended to the document yet, it shouldn't matter if the style properties are set one-by-one rather than all at once.
- For the `web/debugger.js` case, there's really no need to set the `padding` inline at all and the definition was simply moved to `web/viewer.css` instead.
*Please note:* There's still *a single* case left, in `web/toolbar.js` for setting the width of the zoom dropdown, which is left intact for now.
The reasons are that this particular case shouldn't matter for users of the general PDF.js library, and that it'd make a lot more sense to just try and re-factor that very old code anyway (thus fixing the `setAttribute` usage in the process).
Based on the PDF spec, with `v` operator, current point should be used as the first control point of the curve.
Do not overwrite current point before an SVG curve is built, so it can b actually used as first control point.
In the current `AnnotationLayer` implementation, Popup annotations require that the parent annotation have already been rendered (otherwise they're simply ignored).
Usually the annotations are ordered, in the `/Annots` array, in such a way that this isn't a problem, however there's obviously no guarantee that all PDF generators actually do so. Hence we simply ensure, when rendering the `AnnotationLayer`, that the Popup annotations are handled last.
