There have been lots of problems with trying to map glyphs to their unicode
values. It's more reliable to just use the private use areas so the browser's
font renderer doesn't mess with the glyphs.
Using the private use area for all glyphs did highlight other issues that this
patch also had to fix:
* small private use area - Previously, only the BMP private use area was used
which can't map many glyphs. Now, the (much bigger) PUP 16 area can also be
used.
* glyph zero not shown - Browsers will not use the glyph from a font if it is
glyph id = 0. This issue was less prevalent when we mapped to unicode values
since the fallback font would be used. However, when using the private use
area, the glyph would not be drawn at all. This is illustrated in one of the
current test cases (issue #8234) where there's an "ä" glyph at position
zero. The PDF looked like it rendered correctly, but it was actually not
using the glyph from the font. To properly show the first glyph it is always
duplicated and appended to the glyphs and the maps are adjusted.
* supplementary characters - The private use area PUP 16 is 4 bytes, so
String.fromCodePoint must be used where we previously used
String.fromCharCode. This is actually an issue that should have been fixed
regardless of this patch.
* charset - Freetype fails to load fonts when the charset size doesn't match
number of glyphs in the font. We now write out a fake charset with the
correct length. This also brought up the issue that glyphs with seac/endchar
should only ever write a standard charset, but we now write a custom one.
To get around this the seac analysis is permanently enabled so those glyphs
are instead always drawn as two glyphs.
This moves/exposes the `URL` polyfill similarily to the existing `ReadableStream` polyfill, rather than exposing it globally, to avoid interfering with any "outside" code.
Both the `URL` and `ReadableStream` polyfills are now exposed on the `pdfjsLib` object, such that they are accessible to the viewer components.
Furthermore, the `no-restricted-globals` ESLint rule is also enabled to prevent accidental usage of the native `URL`/`ReadableStream` implementations directly in the `src/` and `web/` folders; see also https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-globals
Addresses the remaining TODO in https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/6
Please note that the standalone `pdf.image_decoders.js` file will be including the complete `src/shared/util.js` file, despite only using parts of it.[1] This was done *purposely*, to not negatively impact the readability/maintainability of the core PDF.js code.
Furthermore, to ensure that the compatibility is the same in the regular PDF.js library *and* in the the standalone image decoders, `src/shared/compatibility.js` was included as well.
To (hopefully) prevent future complaints about the size of the built `pdf.image_decoders.js` file, a few existing async-related polyfills are being skipped (since all of the image decoders are completely synchronous).
Obviously this required adding a couple of pre-processor statements, but given that these are all limited to "compatibility" code, I think this might be OK!?
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[1] However, please note that previous commits moved `PageViewport` and `MessageHandler` out of `src/shared/util.js` which reduced its size.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, we still need the ability to adjust certain API options depending on the browser environment in PDF.js version `2.0`. However, we should be able to separate this from the general compatibility code in the `src/shared/compatibility.js` file.
I don't understand why the previous way importing the polyfills didn't work, and I don't have time to try and figure it out, however this patch seems to fix things.
Fixes 9514.
Fixes 9516.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, we still need the ability to adjust certain viewer options depending on the browser environment in PDF.js version `2.0`. However, we should be able to separate this from the general compatibility code in the `src/shared/compatibility.js` file.
This rule is available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-mozilla, and is enforced in mozilla-central. Note that we have the necessary `Array`/`String` polyfills and that most cases have already been fixed, see PRs 9032 and 9434.
This rule is available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-mozilla, and is enforced in mozilla-central. Note that we have a polyfill for `ChildNode.remove()` and that most cases have already been fixed, see PRs 8056 and 8138.
Add comments with supported browser versions where missing.
Method:
- Use MDN compat tables if available.
- Otherwise test in Chrome (31+) otherwise.
(the Chrome Web Store does not update older versions of
Chrome, so probably nobody is interested in even older
versions, even though there is an existing comment for
Chrome<29 at `document.currentScript`).
These were removed in PR 9170, since they were unused in the browsers that we'll support in PDF.js version `2.0`.
However looking at the output of Travis, where a subset of the unit-tests are run using Node.js, there's warnings about `btoa` being undefined. This doesn't appear to cause any errors, which probably explains why we didn't notice this before (despite PR 9201).
It is quite confusing that the custom function is called `log2` while it
actually returns the ceiling value and handles zero and negative values
differently than the native function.
To resolve this, we add a comment that explains these differences and
make the function use the native `Math` functions internally instead of
using our own custom logic. To verify that the function does what we
expect, we add unit tests.
All browsers except for IE support `Math.log2` for quite a long time
already (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/log2).
For IE, we use the core-js polyfill.
According to the microbenchmark at https://jsperf.com/log2-pdfjs/1,
using the native functions should also be faster, in my testing almost
six times as fast.
We're currently disabling range requests and streaming for a number of configurations. A couple of those will no longer be supported (with PDF.js version 2.0), hence we ought to be able to clean up the compatibility code slightly.
This compatibility code is only relevant for browsers that will no longer be supported (with PDF.js version 2.0), hence we ought to be able to remove it.
Since we're already using core-js elsewhere in `compatibility.js`, we can reduce the amount of code we need to maintain ourselves.
https://github.com/zloirock/core-js#weakmap
