- Simplify how we look-up the DOM-element, which should also be a tiny bit more efficent.
- Use private class-fields, rather than property-names prefixed with underscores.
- Inline the `#updateBar` helper-method directly in the `percent`-setter, since having a separate method doesn't seem necessary in this case.
- Set the `indeterminate`-class on the ProgressBar DOM-element, to simplify the code.
Finally, also (slightly) re-factors the `PDFViewerApplication.progress`-method to make it a bit smaller.
The original `ProgressBar`-functionality is very old, and could thus do with some general clean-up.
In particular, while it currently accepts various options those have never really been used in either the default viewer or in any examples. The sort of "styling" that these options provided are *much better*, not to mention simpler, done directly with CSS rules.
As part of these changes, the "progress" is now updated using CSS variables rather than by directly modifying the `style` of DOM elements. This should hopefully simplify future changes to this code, see e.g. PR 14898.
Finally, this also fixes a couple of other small things in the "mobile viewer" example.
Given that Node.js doesn't support Workers, general PDF.js performance will be worse when compared to browsers. In an attempt to improve at least memory usage a little bit, update the Node.js examples to release page resources once parsing is done for that page.
Apparently Node.js has added *global* `URL.createObjectURL` support, but not done the same thing for `Blob`. Hence we also need to check for the availability of `Blob` in the `createObjectURL` helper function, and it's probably a good idea to also update `examples/node/pdf2svg.js` to work-around this until these changes reach an official PDF.js release.
Looking at the code, I do have to agree with the point made in issue 12731 about it being unexpected/unhelpful that the `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method isn't directly usable with the "find"-event.
The reason for it being this way is, as so often, for historical reasons: The `executeCommand`-method was added (just) prior to the introduction of the `EventBus` in the viewer.
Obviously we cannot simply change the existing `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method, since that'd be a breaking change in code which has existed for over five years.
Initially I figured that we could simply add a new method in `PDFFindController` that'd accept the state from the "find"-event, however after thinking about this and looking through the use-cases in the default viewer I settled on a slightly different approach: Let the `PDFFindController` just listen for the "find"-event (on the `EventBus`-instance) directly instead, which also removes one level of (unneeded) indirection during searching in the default viewer.
For GENERIC builds of the PDF.js library, the old `PDFFindController.executeCommand`-method is still available with a deprecation warning.
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 e.g. the `simpleviewer` and `singlepageviewer` examples work, since they're based on the `BaseViewer`-class, the standalone `pageviewer` example currently doesn't support either XFA- or StructTree-layers. This seems like an obvious oversight, which can be easily addressed simply by exporting the necessary functionality through `pdf_viewer.component.js`, similar to the existing Text/Annotation-layers.
While working on, and testing, these changes I happened to notice a number of smaller things that's also fixed in this patch:
- Ensure that `XfaLayerBuilder.render` always have a *consistent* return type, to prevent possible run-time failures in `PDFPageView`; PR 13908 follow-up.
- Change the order of the options in the `XfaLayerBuilder`-constructor to agree with the parameter order in the `DefaultXfaLayerFactory.createXfaLayerBuilder`-method.
- Add a missing `textHighlighterFactory`-option, in the JSDocs for the `PDFPageView`-class.
- A couple of small tweaks in the `TextLayerBuilder.render`-method: Re-use an existing Array rather than creating a new one, and replace an `if` with optional chaining instead.
*Please note:* For now XFA-support is currently disabled by default, similar to the regular viewer.
Prior to PR 13042, when scripting wasn't really possible to use outside of the full viewer, the `enableScripting` option made sense.
However, at this point in time having to both pass in a `PDFScriptingManager`-instance *and* set the `enableScripting`-boolean when creating a `BaseViewer`-instance feels redundant and (mostly) annoying. Hence this patch, which removes the *separate* boolean and always enables scripting when `scriptingManager` is provided.
The relevant "viewer component" examples are also updated (with a comment), but in such a way that scripting support won't just break when used with the current PDF.js releases.
This patch is an attempt at closing an old, and seemingly trivial, issue and the SVG-files created by the `pdf2svg.js` examples still appear to work just fine when opened in browsers (tested with Firefox Nightly and Google Chrome Beta).
This resolves an issue I had when loading pdf.js with webpack. `pdfjsLib` was always `undefined` after the import, and I dug deep into pdf.js's `webpack.js` file to sort out this issue, making all sorts of changes.
I figured out that there was just something wrong with the export/import procedure. After making this change, I now have the full pdfjs object in my webpack application.
Since we really don't want to let a particular Webpack-mode dictate how we can/can't write code, let's add a note in the webpack-example README about minification instead.
A significant portion of the code-base has now been converted to use `let`/`const`, rather than `var`, hence it should be possible to simply enable the ESLint `no-var` rule globally.
This way we can ensure that new code won't accidentally use `var`, and it also removes the need to manually enable the rule in various folders.
Obviously it makes sense to continue the efforts to replace `var`, but that should probably happen on a file and/or folder basis.
Please note that this patch excludes the following code:
- The `extensions/` folder, since that seemed easiest for now (and I don't know exactly what the support situation is for the Chromium-extension).
- The entire `external/` folder is ignored, since most of it's currently excluded from linting.
For the code that isn't imported from elsewhere (and should be ignored), we should probably (at some point) bring the code up to the same linting/formatting standard as the rest of the code-base.
- Various files in the `test/` folder are ignored, as necessary, since the way that a lot of this code is loaded will require some care (or perhaps larger re-factoring) when removing `var` usage.
(This is something that I happened to notice while working on the previous patch.)
The code in the `examples/mobile-viewer/viewer.js` file is essentially copied from an older version of the default viewer, hence we can slightly simplify the `animationStarted` handling here.
The *main* purpose of this patch is to allow scripting to be used together with the viewer components, note the updated "simpleviewer"/"singlepageviewer" examples, in addition to the full default viewer.
Given how the scripting functionality is currently implemented in the default viewer, trying to re-use this with the standalone viewer components would be *very* hard and ideally you'd want it to work out-of-the-box.
For an initial implementation, in the default viewer, of the scripting functionality it probably made sense to simply dump all of the code in the `app.js` file, however that cannot be used with the viewer components.
To address this, the functionality is moved into a new `PDFScriptingManager` class which can thus be handled in the same way as all other viewer components (and e.g. be passed to the `BaseViewer`-implementations).
Obviously the scripting functionality needs quite a lot of data, during its initialization, and for the default viewer we want to maintain the current way of doing the lookups since that helps avoid a number of redundant API-calls.
To that end, the `PDFScriptingManager` implementation accepts (optional) factories/functions such that we can maintain the current behaviour for the default viewer. For the viewer components specifically, fallback code-paths are provided to ensure that scripting will "just work"[1].
Besides moving the viewer handling of the scripting code to its own file/class, this patch also takes the opportunity to re-factor the functionality into a number of helper methods to improve overall readability[2].
Note that it's definitely possible that the `PDFScriptingManager` class could be improved even further (e.g. for general re-use), since it's still heavily tailored to the default viewer use-case, however I believe that this patch is still a good step forward overall.
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[1] Obviously *all* the relevant document properties might not be available in the viewer components use-case (e.g. the various URLs), but most things should work just fine.
[2] The old `PDFViewerApplication._initializeJavaScript` method, where everything was simply inlined, have over time (in my opinion) become quite large and somewhat difficult to *easily* reason about.
At this point in time the standalone `acroforms` example is no longer needed, since both the `simpleviewer` and `singlepageviewer` examples already support AcroForms by default.
Moreover, the `acroforms` example no longer illustrate best practices, given the direct usage of `PDFPageView` for a multipage document.
Once the next PDF.js release is made, the `webpack` example will no longer work since the non-translated builds now use ECMAScript features not supported by older `webpack`-versions.
The `debugger`-statement would only, potentially, make sense during development and we thus want to prevent it from being accidentally included when landing code.
The `alert`, `confirm`, and `prompt` functions should generally be avoided, with the few intended cases manually allowed.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rules at:
- https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-debugger
- https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-alert
This moves, and slightly simplifies, code that's currently residing in the unit-test utils into the actual library, such that it's bundled with `GENERIC`-builds and used in e.g. the API-code.
As an added bonus, this also brings out-of-the-box support for CMaps in e.g. the Node.js examples.
Using `require.resolve("worker-loader")` to check if `worker-loader` is installed causes webpack to include `worker-loader` in the output bundle, which is not the intended effect. Aside from increasing the bundle size unnecessarily, it also causes errors for webpack configs with targets that don't have node's built-in modules.
These errors can be fixed by configuring webpack `externals` to exclude `worker-loader`, but it's more difficult to figure out this solution than to figure out that `worker-loader` needs to be installed (even without this explicit error message).
To solve this, the explicit check for `worker-loader` has been removed. An alternative solution would be to use webpack's `resolveWeak`. Documentation has also been added in `examples/webpack` to help users.
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.
