In order to, quickly, unblock future Webpack updates this patch implements a *temporary* work-around for the regression; please refer to issue 10177 for additional details.
Please note that this patch doesn't require *any* changes to the source code, but only (small) build-time changes to `gulpfile.js` and as such will be easy to revert.
This file (currently) contains not only DOM-specific helper functions/classes, but is used generally for various helper code relevant for main-thread functionality.
*Hopefully this patch makes sense, since I cannot claim to fully understand this function.*
With the changes made in PR 3354 *some* Type3 glyph outlines are no longer rendering correctly, since the final paths were being accidentally ignored.
The fact that Type3 fonts are not very common in PDF documents, and that most Type3 glyphs are unaffected by this regression, probably explains why this has gone unnoticed since 2013.
There doesn't appear to be any particular reason for only running these unit-tests in browsers, since the `PDFDataRangeTransport` functionality itself should be back-end agnostic.
This allows simplification of the 'creates pdf doc from URL and aborts loading after worker initialized' API unit-test.
Note that the `DOMFileReaderFactory` uses the Fetch API, for simplicity, since it should be available in all browsers where we're running tests.
Currently these methods are only used from the respective `reset` methods, and from `{BaseViewer, PDFThumbnailViewer}._cancelRendering` which only runs when the active document is closed.
This patch changes `{PDFPageView, PDFThumbnailView}.cancelRendering` to *only* cancel any pending rendering operations, and doesn't attempt to reset e.g. the `renderingState`, since that causes visual glitches (duplicated canvases in the viewer) when called directly.
Furthermore, unless you "know" what you're doing, the `{PDFPageView, PDFThumbnailView}.reset` methods are what *should* normally be used instead.
This implements the nice suggestion from https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/10099#discussion_r219698000, which I at the time didn't think would work.
I'll probably have to plead temporary insanity here, since it *should* have been totally obvious to me how this could be implemented. By simply not registering the event until the `textLayer` is actually rendered, removing the event on `cancel` works just fine.
This patch also removes the `pagecancelled` event, given that it's no longer used anywhere in the code-base and that its implemention was flawed since it wasn't guaranteed to be called in *every* situation where rendering was actually cancelled.
Currently any editing of the preferences require updates in *three* separate files, which isn't a great developer experience to say the least.
This has annoyed me sufficiently to write this patch, which moves the definition of all preferences into `AppOptions` and adds a new `gulp` task to generate the `default_preferences.json` file for the builds where it's needed.
After PR 9340 all glyphs are now re-mapped to a Private Use Area (PUA) which means that if a font fails to load, for whatever reason[1], all glyphs in the font will now render as Unicode glyph outlines.
This obviously doesn't look good, to say the least, and might be seen as a "regression" since previously many glyphs were left in their original positions which provided a slightly better fallback[2].
Hence this patch, which implements a *general* fallback to the PDF.js built-in font renderer for fonts that fail to load (i.e. are rejected by the sanitizer). One caveat here is that this only works for the Font Loading API, since it's easy to handle errors in that case[3].
The solution implemented in this patch does *not* in any way delay the loading of valid fonts, which was the problem with my previous attempt at a solution, and will only require a bit of extra work/waiting for those fonts that actually fail to load.
*Please note:* This patch doesn't fix any of the underlying PDF.js font conversion bugs that's responsible for creating corrupt font files, however it does *improve* rendering in a number of cases; refer to this possibly incomplete list:
[Bug 1524888](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524888)
Issue 10175
Issue 10232
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[1] Usually because the PDF.js font conversion code wasn't able to parse the font file correctly.
[2] Glyphs fell back to some default font, which while not accurate was more useful than the current state.
[3] Furthermore I'm not sure how to implement this generally, assuming that's even possible, and don't really have time/interest to look into it either.
- The only existing call-site, of this method, is never passing more than *one* font at a time anyway.
- As far as I can remember, this functionality has never actually been used (caveat: I didn't check the git history).
- This allows simplification of the method, especially by making use of the fact that it's now asynchronous.
- It should be just as easy to call `BaseFontLoader.bind` from within a loop, rather than having the loop in the method itself.
Currently all fonts are using the `_queueLoadingCallback` method to determine when they have been loaded[1]. However in most cases this is just adding unnecessary overhead, especially with `BaseFontLoader.bind` now being asynchronous, given how fonts are loaded:
- For fonts loaded using the Font Loading API, it's already possible to easily tell when a font has been loaded simply by checking the `loaded` promise on the FontFace object itself.
- For browsers, e.g. Firefox, which support synchronous font loading it's already assumed that fonts are immediately available.
Hence the `_queueLoadingCallback` method is moved into the `GenericFontLoader`, such that it's only utilized for fonts which are loaded using CSS.
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[1] In the "fonts loaded using CSS" case, this is already a hack anyway as outlined in the comments.
pdf.js had a problem when copying characters on supplementary planes
(0xPPXXXX where PP is nonzero). This is because certain methods of
PartialEvaluator use classic String.fromCharCode instead of ES6's
String.fromCodePoint.
Despite the fact that readToUnicode method *tried* to parse out-of-UCS2
code points by parsing UTF-16BE, it was inadequate because
String.fromCharCode only supports UCS-2 range of Unicode.
Unsurprisingly IE11 doesn't support this, so a polyfill is needed since otherwise the sidebar can no longer be opened.
Also, simplifies the existing `classList.toggle` polyfill.
There's a bunch of code, in the viewer, which for historical reasons use `switch` statements to add and remove CSS classes.
This code can be simplified, and unnecessary duplication avoided, by using `classList.toggle` instead.
This polyfill is currently used in only *one* file, i.e. `src/display/api.js`, and only when trying to build a *fallback* `workerSrc` path.
Given that the global `workerSrc` should *always* be set[1] when using the PDF.js library[2], and that the fallback `workerSrc` should only be regarded as a best-effort solution anyway, there isn't a particularily strong reason to keep the compatibility code in my opinion.
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[1] Other supported options include setting the global `workerPort`, or passing in a `PDFWorker` instance as part of the `getDocument` call.
[2] Which is clearly mentioned in the JSDocs in `src/display/worker_options.js`.
This avoids having the initialization code "spread out", and will become even simpler once the `TODO` is addressed (which I'm planning on fixing as soon as possible).
This patch ignores the recently added `disableOpenActionDestination` preference, since the latest PDF.js version found on the "Chrome Web Store" doesn't include it.
