*This fixes something that I noticed, having recently looked at both the `Lexer.getObj` and `writeValue` code.*
Please note that I unfortunately don't have an example of a form where saving fails without this patch. However, given its overall simplicity and that unit-tests are added, it's hopefully deemed useful to fix this potential issue pro-actively rather than waiting for a bug report.
At this point one might, and rightly so, wonder if there's actually any real-world PDF documents where a `null` value is being used?
Unfortunately the answer is *yes*, and we have a couple of examples in the test-suite (although none of those are related to forms); please see: `issue1015`, `issue2642`, `issue10402`, `issue12823`, `issue13823`, and `pr12564`.
While some of the output looks worse to my eye, this behavior more
closely matches what I see when I open the PDFs in Adobe acrobat.
Fixes: #4706, #9713, #8245, #1344
Currently it's possible to accidentally, e.g. by simply copy-and-pasting from an existing test-case, add an unnecessary `"link": true`-entry for locally available PDF files.
This leads to inconsistencies in the manifest file, and doesn't feel like a great developer experience. However we can easily fix it by having `verifyManifestFiles` fail in this situation, and doing so actually turned up a couple of existing cases.
Similar to other viewer components, e.g. the `PDFFindBar` and `PDFPresentationMode`, there's no need to create a `PDFHistory`-instance when it's not going to be used.
The `MessageHandler`-implementation already handles either of these callbacks being undefined, hence there's no particular reason (as far as I can tell) to add no-op functions here.
Also, in a couple of `MessageHandler`-methods, utilize an already existing local variable more.
Following the STR in the issue, this patch reduces the number of `PartialEvaluator.getTextContent`-related `postMessage`-calls by approximately 78 percent.[1]
Note that by enforcing a relatively low value when batching text chunks, we should thus improve worst-case scenarios while not negatively affect all `textLayer` building.
While working on these changes I noticed, thanks to our unit-tests, that the implementation of the `appendEOL` function unfortunately means that the number and content of the textItems could actually be affected by the particular chunking used.
That seems *extremely* unfortunate, since in practice this means that the particular chunking used is thus observable through the API. Obviously that should be a completely internal implementation detail, which is why this patch also modifies `appendEOL` to mitigate that.[2]
Given that this patch adds a *minimum* batch size in `enqueueChunk`, there's obviously nothing preventing it from becoming a lot larger then the limit (depending e.g. on the PDF structure and the CPU load/speed).
While sending more text chunks at once isn't an issue in itself, it could become problematic at the main-thread during `textLayer` building. Note how both the `PartialEvaluator` and `CanvasGraphics` implementations utilize `Date.now()`-checks, to prevent long-running parsing/rendering from "hanging" the respective thread. In the `textLayer` building we don't utilize such a construction[3], and streaming of textContent is thus essentially acting as a *simple* stand-in for that functionality.
Hence why we want to avoid choosing a too large minimum batch size, since that could thus indirectly affect main-thread performance negatively.
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[1] While it'd be possible to go even lower, that'd likely require more invasive re-factoring/changes to the `PartialEvaluator.getTextContent`-code to ensure that the batches don't become too large.
[2] This should also, as far as I can tell, explain some of the regressions observed in the "enhance" text-selection tests back in PR 13257.
Looking closer at the `appendEOL` function it should potentially be changed even more, however that should probably not be done here.
[3] I'd really like to avoid implementing something like that for the `textLayer` building as well, given that it'd require adding a fair bit of complexity.
This is essentially a simplified version of the code that's used in `PDFPageView`, which will hopefully reduce the number of issues opened specifically about blurry rendering.
However, note that *ideally* users should base their implementations on the `components/` examples rather than using the API directly (the "viewer components" already support HiDPI-screens).
While these changes will obviously not have a significant effect on overall memory usage, it cannot hurt as far as I'm concerned. This patch makes the following changes:
- Clear out `_textDivProperties` once rendering is done, since those properties are only necessary to keep alive when *enhanced* text-selection is being used.
- Reduce the size of the `_textDivProperties`-entries by default, since a majority of the properties are only relevant when *enhanced* text-selection is being used.
The old `update`-signature started to annoy me back when I added optional content support to the viewer, since we're (often) forced to pass in a bunch of arguments that we don't care about whenever these methods are called.
This is tagged `api-minor` since `PDFPageView` is being used in the `pageviewer` component example, and it's thus possible that these changes could affect some users; the next commit adds fallback handling for the old format.
In the referenced PDF document the /Contents stream contains MarkedContent-operators, however no optional content dictionary exists; according to [the specification](https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#G7.3883825):
> Null values or references to deleted objects shall be ignored. If this entry is
not present, is an empty array, or contains references only to null or deleted
objects, the membership dictionary shall have no effect on the visibility of
any content.
