Currently if trying to set `disableRange=true` in the built-in PDF Viewer in Firefox, either through `about:config` or via the URL hash, the PDF document will never load. It appears that this has been broken for a couple of years, without anyone noticing.
Obviously it's not a good idea to set `disableRange=true`, however it seems that this bug affects the PDF Viewer in Firefox even with default settings:
- In the case where `initialData` already contains the *entire* file, we're forced to dispatch a range request to re-fetch already available data just so that file loading may complete.
- (In the case where the data arrives, via streaming, before being specifically requested through `requestDataRange`, we're also forced to re-fetch data unnecessarily.) *This part was removed, to reduce the scope/risk of the patch somewhat.*
In the cases outlined above, we're having to re-fetch already available data thus potentially delaying loading/rendering of PDF files in Firefox (and wasting resources in the process).
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.
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`.
This file (currently) contains not only DOM-specific helper functions/classes, but is used generally for various helper code relevant for main-thread functionality.
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.
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.
If, as PR 10368 suggests, more parameters should be added to `getViewport` I think that it would be a mistake to not change the signature *first* to avoid needlessly unwieldy call-sites.
To not break any existing code and third-party use-cases, this is obviously implemented with a deprecation warning *and* with a working fallback[1] for the old method signature.
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[1] This is limited to `GENERIC` builds, which should be sufficient.
Note that the OpenAction dictionary may contain other information besides just a destination array, e.g. instructions for auto-printing[1].
Given first of all that an arbitrary `Dict` cannot be sent from the Worker (since cloning would fail), and second of all that the data obviously needs to be validated, this patch purposely only adds support for fetching a destination from the OpenAction entry[2].
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[1] This information is, currently in PDF.js, being included through the `getJavaScript` API method.
[2] This significantly reduces the complexity of the implementation, which seems fine for now. If there's ever need for other kinds of OpenAction to be fetched, additional API methods could/should be implemented as necessary (could e.g. follow the `getOpenActionWhatever` naming scheme).
This changes all occurrences of `var` to `let`/`const` in this code, and updates the signature of the constructor to use object destructuring for better readability (and self documentation).
Also, `useRequestAnimationFrame` is changed to a parameter and the `typeof window` check is now done *once* rather than at every `_scheduleNext` call.
This changes all occurrences of `var` to `let`/`const` in this code, and updates the signatures of a couple of methods to use object destructuring.
Finally, when creating `InternalRenderTask` instances *only* the necessary parameter are now provided, since passing through the `RenderParameters` as-is seems completely unnecessary.
First of all, note how there's currently *two* methods for checking if a certain object exists, which seems completely unwarranted.
Furthermore, the rarely used `getData` method was removed and its only callsite changed to use a combination of `PDFObjects.{has, get}` instead.
Finally, the methods were rearranged slightly, to bring the most important ones (for an API user) to the top of the class.
Note how nowhere in the code `canvasInRendering.get()` is ever called, and that this structure is really only used to store references to `<canvas>` DOM elements.
The reason for this being a `WeakMap` is probably because at the time we weren't using `core-js` polyfills yet, and since there already existed a manually implemented `WeakMap` polyfill it was probably simpler to use that.
Please note that, given the lack of a runnable example, I'm not totally sure if this first of all is enough to *completely* address the issue as filed and second of all if we actually want this new behaviour.
*Please note:* I'm totally fine with this patch being rejected, and the issue closed as WONTFIX; however these changes should address the issue if that's desired.
From a conceptual point of view, reporting loading progress doesn't really make a lot of sense for PDF files opened by passing raw binary data directly to `getDocument` (since obviously *all* data was loaded).
This is compared to PDF files loaded via e.g. `XMLHttpRequest` or the Fetch API, where the entire PDF file isn't available from the start and knowing the loading progress makes total sense.
However I can certainly see why the current API could be considered inconsistent, which isn't great, since a registered `onProgress` callback will never be called for certain `getDocument` calls.
The simplest solution to this inconsistency thus seem to be to ensure that `onProgress` is always called when handling the `DataLoaded` message, since that will *always* be dispatched[1] from the worker-thread.
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[1] Note that this isn't guaranteed to happen, since setting `disableAutoFetch = true` often prevents the *entire* file from ever loading. However, this isn't relevant for the issue at hand, and is a well-known consequence of using `disableAutoFetch = true`; note how the default viewer even has a specialized code-path for hiding the loadingBar.
*This should have been part of PR 10139.*
In the event that a user has attempted to manually load the worker file on the main-thread, but somehow failed to do that correctly, there's a possibility that `getMainThreadWorkerMessageHandler` could throw. Considering how/where that helper function is being called, an error could still prevent `PDFDocumentLoadingTask` from completing (regardless if it's being resolved/rejected).
With the way that the `getWorkerSrc()` helper function is implemented now, there's no longer a particularly strong reason for keeping the global `pdfjsFilePath` variable around.
With this patch the fallback `workerSrc` will thus, assuming is wasn't already set, be set to the "pdfjsFilePath" which simplifies the `getWorkerSrc()` function and reduces the amount of global state.
Finally, the global `workerSrc` variable was renamed to prevent shadowing.
This should, hopefully, cover all the possible ways[1] in which "fake workers" are loaded. Given the different code-paths, adding unit-tests might not be that simple.
Note that in order to make this work, the various `fakeWorkerFilesLoader` functions were converted to return `Promises`.
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[1] Unfortunately there's lots of them, for various build targets and configurations.
This moves/exposes the `URL` polyfill similarily to the existing `ReadableStream` polyfill, rather than exposing it globally, to avoid interfering with any "outside" code.
Both the `URL` and `ReadableStream` polyfills are now exposed on the `pdfjsLib` object, such that they are accessible to the viewer components.
Furthermore, the `no-restricted-globals` ESLint rule is also enabled to prevent accidental usage of the native `URL`/`ReadableStream` implementations directly in the `src/` and `web/` folders; see also https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-globals
Addresses the remaining TODO in https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/6
Currently if `RenderTask.cancel` is called *immediately* after rendering was started, then by the time that `InternalRenderTask.initializeGraphics` is called rendering will already have been cancelled.
However, we're still inserting the canvas into the `canvasInRendering` map, thus breaking any future attempts at re-rendering using the same canvas. Considering that `InternalRenderTask.cancel` always removes the canvas from the map, I cannot imagine that we'd ever want to re-add it *after* rendering was cancelled (it was likely just a simple oversight in PR 8519).
Fixes 9456.
This wasn't included in PR 9245, since all the API options were still global at that time.
Writing the unit-tests also uncovered an issue with `getOperatorList` not starting the "Page Request" timer.
Obviously it's still not possible to render non-embedded fonts as paths, but in this way the rest of the page will at least be allowed to continue rendering.
*Please note:* Including the 14 standard fonts in PDF.js probably wouldn't be *that* difficult to implement. (I'm not a lawyer, but the fonts from PDFium could probably be used given their BSD license.)
However, the main blocker ought to be the total size of the necessary font data, since I cannot imagine people being OK with shipping ~5 MB of (additional) font data with Firefox. (Based on the reactions when the CMap files were added, and those are only ~1 MB in size.)
The built-in image decoders are already using `Uint8ClampedArray` when returning data, and this patch simply extends that to the rest of the image/colorspace code.
As far as I can tell, the only reason for using manual clamping/rounding in the first place was because TypedArrays used to be polyfilled (using regular arrays). And trying to polyfill the native clamping/rounding would probably have been had too much overhead, but given that TypedArray support is required in PDF.js version `2.0` that's no longer a concern.
*Please note:* Because of different rounding behaviour, basically `Math.round` in `Uint8ClampedArray` respectively `Math.floor` in the old code, there will be very slight movement in quite a few existing test-cases. However, the changes should be imperceivable to the naked eye, given that the absolute difference is *at most* `1` for each RGB component when comparing `master` and this patch (see also the updated expectation values in the unit-tests).
Not only is the `Util.loadScript` helper function unused on the Worker side, even trying to use it there would throw an Error (since `document` isn't defined/available in Workers).
Hence this helper function is moved, and its code modernized slightly by having it return a Promise rather than needing a callback function.
Finally, to reduced code duplication, the "new" loadScript function is exported and used in the viewer.
This special handling was added in PR 8567, but was made redundant in PR 8721 which stopped sending everything but the kitchen sink to the Worker side.
Since `PDFPageProxy` already provide getters for all the data returned by `GetPage` (in the Worker), there isn't any compelling reason for accessing the `pageInfo` directly on `PDFPageProxy`.
The patch also changes the `GetPage` handler, in `src/core/worker.js`, to use modern JavaScript features.
Since `PDFDocumentProxy` already provide getters for all the data returned by `GetDoc` (in the Worker), there isn't any compelling reason for accessing the `pdfInfo` directly on `PDFDocumentProxy`.
After PR 8617 the `PDFManagerReady` message handler function, in `src/display/api.js`, is now a no-op. Hence it seems completely unnecessary to keep sending this message from `src/core/worker.js`.
With native typed array support now being mandatory in PDF.js, since version 2.0, this probably isn't a huge problem even though the current code seems wrong (it was changed in PR 6571).
Note how in the `!(data instanceof Uint8Array)` case we're currently attempting to send `handler.send('test', 'main', false);` to the main-thread, which doesn't really make any sense since the signature of the method reads `send(actionName, data, transfers) {`.
Hence the data that's *actually* being sent here is `'main'`, with `false` as the transferList, which just seems weird. On the main-thread, this means that we're in this case checking `data && data.supportTypedArray`, where `data` contains the string `'main'` rather than being falsy. Since a string doesn't have a `supportTypedArray` property, that check still fails as expected but it doesn't seem great nonetheless.
Since all the built-in PDF.js image decoders now return their data as `Uint8ClampedArray`, for consistency `JpegDecode` on the main-thread should be doing the same thing; follow-up to PR 8778.
The signature of the `PDFWorker.fromPort` method, in addition to the `PDFWorker` constructor, was changed in PR 9480.
Hence it's probably a good idea to add a bit more validation to `PDFWorker.fromPort`, to ensure that it won't fail silently for an API consumer that updates to version 2.0 of the PDF.js library.
With version 2.0, native support for typed arrays is now a requirement for using the PDF.js library; see PR 9094 where the old polyfills were removed.
Hence the `isTypedArraysPresent` check, when setting up fake workers, no longer serves any purpose here and can thus be removed.
There's no good reason, as far as I can tell, to duplicate the functionality of the `LoopbackPort` in the unit-tests. The only difference between the implementations is that `LoopbackPort` mimics the (native) structured cloning, however that shouldn't matter here since the tests are only sending "simple" data (strings respectively arrays with numbers).
Furthermore the patch also changes `LoopbackPort` to default to using "structured cloning" and deferred invocation of the listeners, since native typed array support is now a requirement for using the PDF.js library.
The `MessageHandler` itself, and its assorted helper functions, are currently the single largest[1] piece of code in the `src/shared/util.js` file. By moving this code into its own file, `src/shared/util.js` thus becomes smaller and more manageable.
Please note that while the current code works, both in the viewer and the unit-tests, it can leave the `WorkerTransport._passwordCapability` Promise in a pending state.
In the `PasswordRequest` handler, in src/display/api.js, we're returning the Promise from a `capability` object (rather than just a "plain" Promise). While an error thrown anywhere within this handler was fortunately enough to propagate it to the Worker side, it won't cause the Promise (in `WorkerTransport._passwordCapability`) to actually be rejected.
Finally note that while we're now catching errors in the `PasswordRequest` handler, those errors are still propagated to the Worker side via the (now) rejected Promise and the existing `return this._passwordCapability.promise;` line.
This prevents warnings about uncaught Promises, with messages such as "Error: Worker was destroyed during onPassword callback", when running the unit-tests both in browsers *and* in Node.js/Travis.
This should provide a better out-of-the-box experience when using PDF.js in a Node.js environment, since it's missing native support for both `@font-face` and `Image`.
Please note that this change *only* affects the default values, hence it's still possible for an API consumer to override those values when calling `getDocument`.
Also, prevents "ReferenceError: document is not defined" errors, when running the unit-tests in Node.js/Travis.
*This is a final piece of clean-up of code that I recently wrote, after which I'm done :-)*
When the `getMainThreadWorkerMessageHandler` function was added, in PR 9385, it did so by basically introducing a `web/app.js` dependency in `src/display/api.js` through the `window.pdfjsNonProductionPdfWorker` property[1]. Even though this is limited to non-`PRODUCTION` mode, i.e. `gulp server`, it still seems unfortunate to have that sort of viewer dependency in the API code itself.
With the new, much nicer and shorter, names introduced in PR 9565 we can remove this non-`PRODUCTION` hack and just use `window.pdfjsWorker` in both the viewer and the API regardless of the build mode.
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[1] It didn't seem correct to piggy-back on the `window.pdfjsDistBuildPdfWorker` property in non-`PRODUCTION` mode.
The `getPageSizeInches` method was implemented on `PDFDocumentProxy`, which seems conceptually wrong since the size property isn't global to the document but rather specific to each page. Hence the method is moved into `PDFPageProxy`, as `get pageSizeInches` instead to address this.
Despite the fact that new API functionality was implemented, no unit-tests were added. To prevent issues later on, we should *always* ensure that new functionality has at least some test-coverage; something that this patch also takes care of.
The new `PDFDocumentProperties._parsePageSize` method seemed unnecessary convoluted. Furthermore, in the "no data provided"-case it even returned incorrect data (an array, rather than the expected object).
Finally, the fallback strings didn't actually agree with the `en-US` locale. This inconsistency doesn't look too great, and it's thus addressed here as well.
With options being moved from the global `PDFJS` object and into `getDocument`, a side-effect is that we're now passing in a fair number of useless parameters to the various transport/network streams.
Even though this doesn't *currently* cause any problems, it nonetheless seem like a good idea to explicitly provide the parameters that are actually necessary.
One additional complication with removing this option from the global `PDFJS` object, is that the viewer currently needs to check `disableAutoFetch` in a couple of places. To address this I'm thus proposing adding a getter in `PDFDocumentProxy`, to allow checking the *actually* used values for a particular `getDocument` invocation.
In order to simplify things, the undocumented `enableStats` option was removed and `pdfBug` is now instead used to enabled general debugging *and* page request/rendering stats.
Considering that in the default viewer the `stats` was only used when debugging was also enabled, this simplification (code wise) definitely seem worthwhile to me.
Fallback to the built-in JPEG decoder when browser decoding fails, and attempt to handle JPEG images with DNL (Define Number of Lines) markers (issue 8614)
This works by making `PartialEvaluator.buildPaintImageXObject` wait for the success/failure of `loadJpegStream` on the API side *before* parsing continues.
Please note that in practice, it should be quite rare for the browser to fail loading/decoding of a JPEG image. In the general case, it should thus not be completely surprising if even `src/core/jpg.js` will fail to decode the image.
Since `loadJpegStream` is only used at a *single* spot in the code-base, and given that it's very heavily tailored to the calling code (since it relies on the data structure of `PDFObjects`), this patch simply inlines the code in `src/display/api.js` instead.
Despite this patch removing the `disableWorker` option itself, please note that we'll still fallback to loading the worker file(s) on the main-thread when running in environments without proper Web Worker support.
Furthermore it's still possible, even with this patch, to force the use of fake workers by manually loading the necessary file using a `<script>` tag on the main-thread.[1]
That way, the functionality of the now removed `SINGLE_FILE` build target and the resulting `build/pdf.combined.js` file can still be achieved simply by adding e.g. `<script src="build/pdf.worker.js"></script>` to the HTML (obviously with the path adjusted as needed).
Finally note that the `disableWorker` option is a performance footgun, and unfortunately many existing third-party examples actually use it without providing any sort of warning/justification.
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[1] This approach is used in the default viewer, since certain kind of debugging may be easier if the code is running directly on the main-thread.
