The existing code is unable to *correctly* extract the color from the appearance-stream when the ColorSpace-data is "complex". To reproduce this:
- Open `freetexts.pdf` in the viewer.
- Note the purple color of the "Hello World from Preview" annotation.
- Enable any of the Editors.
- Note how the relevant annotation is now black.
Note how we're accidentally using the wrong operator when trying to parse CMYK colors. I'm not aware of any bugs caused by this, since it seems uncommon in practice for annotations to specify text-colors in CMYK format.
- 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.
Currently the `fontName`-property contains an actual /Name-instance, which is a problem given that its fallback value is an empty string; see ca7f546828/src/core/default_appearance.js (L35)
The reason that this is a problem can be seen in ca7f546828/src/core/primitives.js (L30-L34), since an empty string short-circuits the cache. Essentially, in PDF documents, a /Name-instance cannot be empty and the way that the `DefaultAppearanceEvaluator` does things is unfortunately not entirely correct.
Hence the `fontName`-property is changed to instead contain a string, rather than a /Name-instance, which simplifies the code overall.
*Please note:* I'm tagging this patch with "[api-minor]", since PR 12831 is included in the current pre-release (although we're not using the `fontName`-property in the display-layer).
Note how, in the `if (this.stateManager.stateStack.length !== 0) {` branch, we're attempting to access the not yet defined variable[1] `args`. If this code-path is ever hit, an Error will be thrown and parsing will thus be aborted immediately (likely leading to e.g. rendering bugs).
Note that I found this purely by accident, since I happened to glance at the LGTM report. However, I've since found that the error is also present during the unit-test[2] and with this patch we're actually testing the *intended* thing here.
As part of fixing this, and to avoid re-introducing a similar bug in the future, we'll now instead always reset `args.length` *before* attempting to read the next operator.
Also, we can use the existing `EvaluatorPreprocessor.savedStatesDepth` getter to simplify the save/restore detection a tiny bit.
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[1] The ESLint rule `no-use-before-define` would have helped catch this problem, but unfortunately we cannot enable that without quite a bit of refactoring all over the code-base.
[2] The unit-test was updated such that it would fail in the `master`-branch.
* Add a parser to get font data from the default appearance
- pdfium & poppler use a special parser too to get these info.
* Update src/core/default_appearance.js
Co-authored-by: Jonas Jenwald <jonas.jenwald@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonas Jenwald <jonas.jenwald@gmail.com>
