On my computer, it takes few tenths of a second to load a local font.
Since a font can be used several times in a document, the cache will
improve performances.
- Replace FoxitSans with LiberationSans: LiberationSans is already there (for XFA) and we can use
it as a good replacement of FoxitSans.
- For now we just try to substitue standard fonts, the strategy is the following:
* we try to find a font locally from a hardcoded list;
* if it fails then we use Liberation as fallback (only for Helvetica for the moment);
* else we just fallback on the system serif/sansserif/monospace font.
For some time these checks have only targeted Node.js environments, since the features in question exist in all supported browsers (even when a `legacy`-build is used).
Now that we've updated the minimum supported Node.js version to 18, a number of polyfills are thus (finally) no longer necessary in that environment. Hence for certain *basic* functionality, such as e.g. text-extraction, it's now possible to use either a modern- or a `legacy`-build of the PDF.js library in Node.js environments.
*Please note:* For e.g. canvas-rendering in Node.js environments it's still necessary to use a `legacy`-build, since that functionality requires various polyfills.
This patch updates the minimum supported environments as follows:
- Node.js 18, which was released on 2022-04-19; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js#Releases
Note also that Node.js 16 will soon reach EOL, and thus no longer receive any security updates.
The /Decode-implementation in the our JPEG decoder, i.e. `src/core/jpg.js`, seems to only handle *inverting* of images properly. To support arbitrary /Decode-entries correctly we'll always use the `PDFImage.decodeBuffer` method, even for "simple" JPEG images, which should be fine since non-default /Decode-entries aren't a very common occurrence.
*Please note:* This patch will lead to a little bit of movement in some existing test-cases, however it should be virtually imperceivable to the naked eye.
This property was added in PR 12726 specifically for use in the `getFontType` function, indirectly used by the `PDFDocumentProxy.stats` getter in the API.
In PR 15880 that functionality was removed, but I forgot to remove this now unused font-property.
Now that we no longer depend on the old Babel version in SystemJS we can remove the `static get ...` work-arounds used to define constants, which leads to slightly more compact code.
Now that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687 has landed in Firefox, we're able to use worker-modules during development :-)
This removes the final piece of SystemJS usage from the PDF.js library, thus allowing a fair bit of clean-up, and we now use *only* native `import`/`export` statements everywhere in development mode.
When the `GlobalImageCache` implementation originally landed, back in PR 11912, the image handling was slightly more complex (with e.g. browser-decoding of some JPEG images). At this point it no longer seems necessary to manually handle pageIndexes in this way, and we should be able to simply inline that in the `GlobalImageCache.shouldCache` method.
This method was added in PR 4938, almost nine years ago, however it doesn't appear to ever have been used.
Given the similarities between the `PDF17` and `PDF20` classes, and how they're used, if the `PDF20.hash` method was actually necessary you'd also expect a similiar method in the `PDF17` class.
The "binary" CMap-format is specific to the PDF.js library, and is used to reduce the size of the built-in CMap data-files.
By moving this code to its own file we can remove the nowadays unnecessary closures, which helps to slightly reduce the size of this code.
Some arabic chars like \ufe94 could be searched in a pdf, hence it must be normalized
when creating the search query. So to avoid to duplicate the normalization code,
everything is moved in the find controller.
The previous code to normalize text was using NFKC but with a hardcoded map, hence it
has been replaced by the use of normalize("NFKC") (it helps to reduce the bundle size
by 30kb).
In playing with this \ufe94 char, I noticed that the bidi algorithm wasn't taking into
account some RTL unicode ranges, the generated font wasn't embedding the mapping this
char and the unicode ranges in the OS/2 table weren't up-to-date.
When normalized some chars can be replaced by several ones and it induced to have
some extra chars in the text layer. To avoid any regression, when copying some text
from the text layer, a copied string is normalized (NFKC) before being put in the
clipboard (it works like this in either Acrobat or Chrome).
This *special* build-target is very old, and was introduced with the first pre-processor that only uses comments to enable/disable code.
When the new pre-processor was added `PRODUCTION` effectively became redundant, at least in JavaScript code, since `typeof PDFJSDev === "undefined"` checks now do the same thing.
This patch proposes that we remove `PRODUCTION` from the JavaScript code, since that simplifies the conditions and thus improves readability in many cases.
*Please note:* There's not, nor has there ever been, any gulp-task that set `PRODUCTION = false` during building.
This method was originally added in PR 1320, eleven years ago, however it doesn't appear to ever have been used (not even from the start).
Furthermore, this method also tries to access a property that doesn't exist (`this.out`) and then call a method that also doesn't exist (`writeByteArray`).
In looking at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706451 I noticed that bug2.pdf was pretty
slow to load for such a basic file.
In profiling I noticed that a lot of time is spent in Array.concat, hence this patch use Array.push when
it's possible (it's now ~3 times faster).
The changes in PR 16238 were intended specifically for Node.js environments, however they accidentally applied to older browsers as well.
*Please note:* In up-to-date browsers `Path2D` is available in Workers, which should be connected to the introduction of `OffscreenCanvas`.
Currently we have two separate image-caches on the worker-thread:
- A local one, which is unique to each `PartialEvaluator.getOperatorList` invocation. This one caches both names *and* references, since image-resources may be accessed in either way.
- A global one, which applies to the entire PDF documents and all its pages. This one only caches references, since nothing else would work.
This patch introduces a third image-cache, which essentially sits "between" the two existing ones. The new `RegionalImageCache`[1] will be usable throughout a `PartialEvaluator` instance, and consequently it *only* caches references, which thus allows us to keep track of repeated image-resources found in e.g. different /Form and /SMask objects.
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[1] For lack of a better word, since naming things is hard...
