Natively supported JPEG images are sent as-is, using a `blob:` or possibly a `data` URL, to the main-thread for loading/decoding.
However there's currently no attempt at releasing these resources, which are held alive by `blob:` URLs, which seems unfortunately given that images can be arbitrarily large.
As mentioned in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/createObjectURL the lifetime of these URLs are tied to the document, hence they are not being removed when a page is cleaned-up/destroyed (e.g. when being removed from the `PDFPageViewBuffer` in the viewer).
This is easy to test with the help of `about:memory` (in Firefox), which clearly shows the number of `blob:` URLs becomming arbitrarily large *without* this patch. With this patch however the `blob:` URLs are immediately release upon clean-up as expected, and the memory consumption should thus be considerably reduced for long documents with (simple) JPEG images.
Note how `PDFDocumentProxy.destroy` is a nothing more than an alias for `PDFDocumentLoadingTask.destroy`. While removing the latter method would be a breaking API change, there's still room for at least some clean-up here.
The main changes in this patch are:
- Stop providing a `PDFDocumentLoadingTask` instance *separately* when creating a `PDFDocumentProxy`, since the loadingTask is already available through the `WorkerTransport` instance.
- Stop tracking the `PDFDocumentProxy` instance on the `WorkerTransport`, since that property is completely unused.
- Simplify the 'Multiple `getDocument` instances' unit-tests by only destroying *once*, rather than twice, for each document.
For Type3 fonts text-selection is often not that great, and there's a couple of heuristics used to try and improve things. This patch simple extends those heuristics a bit, and fixes a pre-existing "naive" array comparison, but this all feels a bit brittle to say the least.
The existing Type3 test-coverage isn't that great in general, and in particular Type3 `text` tests are few and far between, hence why this patch adds *two* different new `text` tests.
Notable changes:
- Remove the `return this;` from the `MurmurHash3_64.update` method, since it's completely unused and doesn't make a lot of sense.
- Remove the loop(s) from the `MurmurHash3_64.hexdigest` method, since creating a temporary array and then looping over it is wasteful given how simple this can be written with modern JavaScript.
Given that the function is (purposely) independent of the verbosity level and that its message is worded to only apply on the main-thread, there's no reason to duplicate this across the built `pdf.js`/`pdf.worker.js` files.
Currently for every single parsed/rendered page there's no less than *four* `Date.now()` calls being made on the worker-side. This seems totally unnecessary, since the result of these calls are, by default, not used for anything *unless* the verbosity level is set to `INFO`.
The default size of these canvases seem to be `300 x 150` (two orders of magnitude larger than the ones in PR 10597), which probably is sufficient enough to matter since there's one such canvas for each textLayer that's rendered in the viewer.
Also fixes the incorrect rejection reason, i.e. one using a string rather than an `Error`, in the `TextLayerRenderTask.cancel` method.
While this particular canvas may be small, there can still be an arbitrarily large number of them (one per page rendered), which can/will eventually add up memory wise. This can be easily avoided by using the `cachedCanvases` abstraction instead, which will ensure that the `isFontSubpixelAAEnabled` canvas is removed together with other temporary canvases in `CanvasGraphics.endDrawing`.
The `src/shared/util.js` file is being bundled into both the `pdf.js` and `pdf.worker.js` files, meaning that its code is by definition duplicated.
Some main-thread only utility functions have already been moved to a separate `src/display/display_utils.js` file, and this patch simply extends that concept to utility functions which are used *only* on the worker-thread.
Note in particular the `getInheritableProperty` function, which expects a `Dict` as input and thus *cannot* possibly ever be used on the main-thread.
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.
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.
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 piggybacks of the existing `cancel` functionality, to ensure that any pending operations are closed *and* that any temporary canvases are actually being removed.
Also simplifies `finishPaintTask` in `PDFPageView.draw` slightly, by converting it to an async function.
All objects in the PDF document follow this pattern:
```
0000000001 0 obj
<<
% Some content here...
>>
endobj
0000000002 0 obj
<<
% More content here...
endobj
```
Based on the discussion in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521413, this patch simply removes the `ReadableStream` polyfill completely from MOZCENTRAL builds.
With this patch, the size of the `gulp mozcentral` build target is thus further reduced (building on PR 10470):
| | `build/mozcentral`
|-------|-------------------
|master | 3 339 666
|patch | 3 209 572
