This check was added in PR 2445, however it's no longer necessary since all data[1] is now loaded on the main-thread (and then transferred to the worker-thread).
Furthermore, by default the Fetch API is now (usually) used rather than `XMLHttpRequest`.
All in all, while these checks *were* necessary at one point that's no longer the case and they can thus be removed.
---
[1] This includes both the actual PDF data, as well as the CMap data.
It recently occurred to me that the CMap data should be an excellent candidate for transfering.
This will help reduce peak memory usage for PDF documents using CMaps, since transfering of data avoids duplicating it on both the main- and worker-threads.
Unfortunately it's not possible to actually transfer data when *returning* data through `sendWithPromise`, and another solution had to be used.
Initially I looked at using one message for requesting the data, and another message for returning the actual CMap data. While that should have worked, it would have meant adding a lot more complexity particularly on the worker-thread.
Hence the simplest solution, at least in my opinion, is to utilize `sendWithStream` since that makes it *really* easy to transfer the CMap data. (This required PR 11115 to land first, since otherwise CMap fetch errors won't propagate correctly to the worker-thread.)
Please note that the patch *purposely* only changes the API to Worker communication, and not the API *itself* since changing the interface of `CMapReaderFactory` would be a breaking change.
Furthermore, given the relatively small size of the `.bcmap` files (the largest one is smaller than the default range-request size) streaming doesn't really seem necessary either.
Having recently worked with this code, it struck me that most of the `postMessage` calls where `Error`s are involved have never been correctly implemented (i.e. missing `wrapReason` calls).
There's only three call-sites and one of them doesn't even need the complete functionality of `resolveCall`, hence it seems reasonable to just inline this code.
An additional benefit of this is that the `Function.prototype.apply()` instance can also be converted into "normal" function calls, which should be a tiny bit more efficient.
The patch also replaces a number of unnecessary arrow functions, in relevant parts of the `MessageHandler` code, with "normal" functions instead.
Finally, all `Promise.resolve().then(...)` calls are replaced with `new Promise(...)` instead since the latter is a tiny bit more efficient. This also explains the test failures on the Linux bot, with a prior version of the patch, since the `Promise.resolve().then(...)` format essentially creates two Promises thus causing additional delay.
At this point in time it's easy to convert the `MessageHandler.on` call-sites to use arrow functions, and thus let the JavaScript engine handle scopes for us, rather than having to manually keep references to the relevant scopes in `MessageHandler`.[1]
An additional benefit of this is that a couple of `Function.prototype.call()` instances can now be converted into "normal" function calls, which should be a tiny bit more efficient.
All in all, I don't see any compelling reason why it'd be necessary to keep supporting custom `scope`s in the `MessageHandler` implementation.
---
[1] In the event that a custom scope is ever needed, simply using `bind` on the handler function when calling `MessageHandler.on` ought to work as well.
Since `wrapReason` and `makeReasonSerializable` are essentially functionally equivalent it doesn't seem necessary to keep both of them around, especially when `makeReasonSerializable` only has a *single* call-site.
Given that the `stream` property is an internal implementation detail, changing its type shouldn't be a problem. By using Numbers instead, we can avoid unnecessary String allocations when creating/processing Streams.
With PR 11069 we're now using Streams for OperatorList parsing (in addition to just TextContent parsing), which brings the nice benefit of being able to easily abort parsing on the worker-thread thus saving resources.
However, since we're now creating many more `ReadableStream` there appears to be a tiny bit more overhead because of it (giving ~1% slower runtime of `browsertest` on the bots). In this case we're just going to have to accept such a small regression, since the benefits of using Streams clearly outweighs it.
What we *can* do here, is to try and make the Streams part of the `MessageHandler` implementation slightly more efficient by e.g. removing unnecessary function calls (which has been helpful in other parts of the code-base). To that end, this patch makes the following changes:
- Actually support `transfers` in `MessageHandler.sendWithStream`, since the parameter was being ignored.
- Inline the `sendStreamRequest`/`sendStreamResponse` helper functions at their respective call-sites. Obviously this causes some amount of code duplication, however I still think this change seems reasonable since for each call-site:
- It avoids making one unnecessary function call.
- It avoids allocating one temporary object.
- It avoids sending, and thus structure clone, various undefined object properties.
- Inline objects in the `MessageHandler.{send, sendWithPromise}` methods.
- Finally, directly call `comObj.postMessage` in various methods when `transfers` are *not* present, rather than calling `MessageHandler.postMessage`, to further reduce the amount of function calls.
One of the motivations for using `setAttribute` in the first place was to support more efficient DOM updates in the `expandTextDivs` method, since performance of the `enhanceTextSelection` mode can be somewhat bad when there's a lot of `textDivs` on the page.
With recent `TextLayer` changes/optimizations it's no longer necessary to store a complete `style`-string for every `textDiv`, and we can thus re-visit the `setAttribute` usage.
Note that with the current code, in `appendText`, there's only *one* string per `textDiv` which avoids a bunch of temporary strings. While the changes in this patch means that there's now *three* strings per `textDiv` instead, the total length of these strings are now quite a bit shorter (42 characters to be exact).
*This should obviously have been done in PR 11097, but for some reason I completely overlooked it; sorry about that.*
There's no good reason to update the font unless you're actually going to measure the width of the textContent. This can reduce unnecessary font switching a fair bit, even for documents which are somewhat simple/short (in e.g. the `tracemonkey.pdf` file this cuts the amount of font switches almost in half).
For performance reasons single-char text divs aren't being scaled, as outlined in a comment in `appendText`. Hence it doesn't seem necessary, or even a good idea, to unconditionally measuring the width of the text in `_layoutText`.
These functions aren't returning anything, now that they're using `ReadableStream`s, and it thus doesn't seem necessary to re-throw errors (also given the console message that's caused by it).
*Please note:* The majority of this patch was written by Yury, and it's simply been rebased and slightly extended to prevent issues when dealing with `RenderingCancelledException`.
By leveraging streams this (finally) provides a simple way in which parsing can be aborted on the worker-thread, which will ultimately help save resources.
With this patch worker-thread parsing will *only* be aborted when the document is destroyed, and not when rendering is cancelled. There's a couple of reasons for this:
- The API currently expects the *entire* OperatorList to be extracted, or an Error to occur, once it's been started. Hence additional re-factoring/re-writing of the API code will be necessary to properly support cancelling and re-starting of OperatorList parsing in cases where the `lastChunk` hasn't yet been seen.
- Even with the above addressed, immediately cancelling when encountering a `RenderingCancelledException` will lead to worse performance in e.g. the default viewer. When zooming and/or rotation of the document occurs it's very likely that `cancel` will be (almost) immediately followed by a new `render` call. In that case you'd obviously *not* want to abort parsing on the worker-thread, since then you'd risk throwing away a partially parsed Page and thus be forced to re-parse it again which will regress perceived performance.
- This patch is already *somewhat* risky, given that it touches fundamentally important/critical code, and trying to keep it somewhat small should hopefully reduce the risk of regressions (and simplify reviewing as well).
Time permitting, once this has landed and been in Nightly for awhile, I'll try to work on the remaining points outlined above.
Co-Authored-By: Yury Delendik <ydelendik@mozilla.com>
Co-Authored-By: Jonas Jenwald <jonas.jenwald@gmail.com>
Furthermore, it's possible to re-use the same Array for all `textDiv`s on the page and the resulting padding string also becomes a lot more compact.
Please note that the `paddingLeft` branch was moved, since the padding values need to be ordered as `top, right, bottom, left`.
Finally, with this re-factoring it's no longer necessary to cache the original `style` string for every `textDiv` when `enhanceTextSelection` is enabled.
Given that browsers will reject padding values smaller than zero (which may be caused by limited numerical precision during calculations in the `expand` code), it makes no sense to include those when expanding the `textDiv`s.
Given that the different types of `Stream`s will never be cached, this thus implies that the `XRef.cache` Array will *always* be more-or-less sparse.
Generally speaking, the longer the document the more sparse the `XRef.cache` will thus become. For example, looking at the `pdf.pdf` file from the test-suite: The length of the `XRef.cache` Array will be a few hundred thousand elements, with approximately 95% of them being empty.
Hence it seems pretty clear that an Array isn't really the best data-structure for this kind of cache, and this patch thus changes it to a Map instead.
This patch-series was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471, with the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 200,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
which gave the following results when comparing this patch-series against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 200 | 2736 | 2736 | 1 | 0.02 |
Firefox | Page Request | 200 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -8.26 | faster
Firefox | Rendering | 200 | 2733 | 2734 | 1 | 0.03 |
```
The relevant methods are usually not hot enough for these changes to have an easily measurable effect, however there's been a lot of other cases where similiar inlining has helped performance. (And these changes may help offset the changes made in the next patch.)
For very large and complex PDF files this will help performance *slightly*, since `Parser.getObj` is called *a lot* during parsing in the worker.
This patch was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471, with the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 200,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
which gave the following results when comparing this patch against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 200 | 2847 | 2830 | -17 | -0.60 | faster
Firefox | Page Request | 200 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -7.14 |
Firefox | Rendering | 200 | 2844 | 2827 | -17 | -0.60 | faster
```
Looking at this again, it struck me that added functionality in `Util.intersect` is probably more confusing than helpful in general; sorry about the churn in this code!
Based on the parameter name you'd probably expect it to only match when the intersection is `[0, 0, 0, 0]` and not when only one component is zero, hence the `skipEmpty` parameter thus feels too tightly coupled to the `Page.view` getter.
This is based on a real-world PDF file I encountered very recently[1], although I'm currently unable to recall where I saw it.
Note that different PDF viewers handle these sort of errors differently, with Adobe Reader outright failing to render the attached PDF file whereas PDFium mostly handles it "correctly".
The patch makes the following notable changes:
- Refactor the `cropBox` and `mediaBox` getters, on the `Page`, to reduce unnecessary duplication. (This will also help in the future, if support for extracting additional page bounding boxes are added to the API.)
- Ensure that the page bounding boxes, i.e. `cropBox` and `mediaBox`, are never empty to prevent issues/weirdness in the viewer.
- Ensure that the `view` getter on the `Page` will never return an empty intersection of the `cropBox` and `mediaBox`.
- Add an *optional* parameter to `Util.intersect`, to allow checking that the computed intersection isn't actually empty.
- Change `Util.intersect` to have consistent return types, since Arrays are of type `Object` and falling back to returning a `Boolean` thus seem strange.
---
[1] In that case I believe that only the `cropBox` was empty, but it seemed like a good idea to attempt to fix a bunch of related cases all at once.
The current code will only consider the `cropBox` and `mediaBox` as equal when they both point to the *same* underlying Array. In the case where a PDF file actually specifies both boxes independently, with the exact same values in each, the comparison will currently fail and lead to an unneeded intersection computation.
With the changes to the `StreamType`/`FontType` "enums" in PR 11029, one unfortunate result is that `getStats` now *always* returns empty Arrays. Something that everyone, myself included, apparently missed is that you obviously cannot index an Array with Strings :-)
I wrongly assumed that the unit-tests would catch any bugs, but they apparently suffered from the same issue as the code in `src/core/`.
Another possible option could perhaps be to use `Set`s, rather than objects, but that will require larger changes since `LoopbackPort` (in `src/display/api.js`) doesn't support them.
Firefox telemetry supports using string labels now. Convert our integers
that we used for categories to just use strings.
The upstream work will happen in:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566882
There's a number of spots in the current code, and tests, where `cancel` methods are not called with appropriate arguments (leading to Promises not being rejected with Errors as intended).
In some cases the cancel `reason` is implicitly set to `undefined`, and in others the cancel `reason` is just a plain String. To address this inconsistency, the patch changes things such that cancelling is done with `AbortException`s everywhere instead.
Add a work-around, in `glyphlist.js`, for bad PDF generators which use a non-standard `/f_f` string in the `Encoding` dictionary when referring to the ff ligature (issue 11016)
This patch will not incur any (measurable) overhead, since the glyphlist is already quite long and one more entry won't really matter, which is important given that this sort of PDF corruption ought to be very rare.
Furthermore, this patch purposely does *not* add a bunch of similarly modified ligature names on pure speculation. Any similar additions, for other ligatures, should only be made if there's real-world examples of PDF files where that's actually necessary.
For very large and complex PDF files this will help performance slightly, since `EvaluatorPreprocessor.read` is called a lot during parsing in the worker.
This patch was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471, using the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 200,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
This gave the following results when comparing this patch against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 200 | 3402 | 3358 | -43 | -1.28 | faster
Firefox | Page Request | 200 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26.71 |
Firefox | Rendering | 200 | 3401 | 3357 | -44 | -1.28 | faster
```
For very large and complex PDF files this will help performance slightly, since `Parser.shift` is called *a lot* during parsing.
This patch was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471 (with well over *four million* `Parser.shift` calls for just the one page), using the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 100,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
This gave the following results when comparing this patch against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 100 | 3386 | 3322 | -65 | -1.92 | faster
Firefox | Page Request | 100 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -8.08 |
Firefox | Rendering | 100 | 3385 | 3321 | -65 | -1.92 | faster
```
The way that this method handles documents without an `ID` entry in the Trailer dictionary feels overly complicated to me. Hence this patch adds `getByteRange` methods to the various Stream implementations[1], and utilize that rather than manually calling `ensureRange` when computing a fallback `fingerprint`.
---
[1] Note that `PDFDocument` is only ever initialized with either a `Stream` or a `ChunkedStream`, hence why the `DecodeStream.getByteRange` method isn't implemented.
The `finalize` helper function has only a *single* call-site, and furthermore it's just a one-liner too. Furthermore it's only ever called with a `Promise` as its argument, meaning that it's unnecessarily convoluted as well (i.e. the `Promise.resolve()` part shouldn't be necessary).
Hence this code can be both simplified *and* inlined at its only call-site instead.
Currently `wrapReason` is manually called at *every* `resolveOrReject` call-site, despite it being completely unnecessary unless there's an actual error being handled. This is obviously inefficient, and it's easy enough to avoid by having `resolveOrReject` handle this only when actually needed.
Note that, in the old code, there was a code-path which could prevent this from happening thus affecting future cleanup.
Furthermore, ensure that we'll always attempt to cleanup when handling the 'PageError' message, similar to the code in e.g. the `PDFPageProxy._renderPageChunk` method.
The `receivingOperatorList` property is currently tracked *twice* in the rendering code, both directly and inversely through the `intentState.operatorList.lastChunk` boolean. This type of double bookkeeping is never a good idea, since it's just too easy for the properties to accidentally fall out of sync.
In this case there's even a `cleanup`-related bug caused by this, which means that `PDFPageProxy._tryCleanup` will never be able to discard any data if there's an error on the worker-thread (as handled through the 'PageError' message).
Hence the simplest solution seems, at least to me, to update `PDFPageProxy._tryCleanup` to replace the `intentState.receivingOperatorList` check with a `!intentState.operatorList.lastChunk` check and completely remove the former property.
*Please note:* A a similar change was attempted in PR 5005, but it was subsequently backed out in PR 5069.
Unfortunately I don't think anyone ever tried to debug *exactly* why it didn't work, since it ought to have worked, and having re-tested this now I'm not able to reproduce the problem any more. However, given just how inefficient the current code is, with thousands of strictly unnecessary function calls for each `find` invocation, I'd really like to try fixing this again.
This reduces the total number of function calls, when reading the XRef table respectively when fetching uncompressed XRef entries.
Note in particular the `XRef.readXRefTable` method, where there're *two* back-to-back `isCmd` checks rather than just one.
A lot of the `new Parser()` call-sites look quite unwieldy/ugly as-is, with a bunch of somewhat randomly ordered arguments, which we can avoid by changing the constructor to accept an object instead. As an added bonus, this provides better documentation without having to add inline argument comments in the code.
See https://github.com/mozilla/eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized
Since we've generally never allowed e.g. `innerHTML`, which is enforced during review, there's only one linting failure with this patch. (Which is white-listed, according to the existing comment and the fact that it's test-only code.)
Since all other `IPDFStream` implementations live in their own files, it seems reasonable for these to do so as well.
Furthermore, converts all of the relevant code to ES6 classes and updates the interface definitions to mark a couple of methods `async`.
Given that `cleanupAfterRender` is already set for large images, when handling 'obj' messages, this patch *should* thus be safe in general (since otherwise there ought be existing bugs related to cleanup and printing).
The border `width` will instead fallback to the default value of `1`, rather than ignoring it altoghether, to also ensure that e.g. `LinkAnnotation`s become clickable as intended.
Fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552113
Usually when the worker is terminated it will also be completely destroyed/removed, which means that any global caches (such as the ones in `src/core/primitive.js`) should be automatically cleared in the process.
However, for certain ways of loading the `pdf.worker.js` file, e.g. passing in a re-usable worker to `getDocument`, using the `workerPort` functionality, or even disabling workers completely (even though this is never a good idea), the worker file may be kept in memory and these caches will not be cleared as expected.
Calling `someArray = []` will create a new Array, which seems completely unnecessary when it's sufficient to just call `someArray.length = 0` to achieve the same effect.
Even though I cannot imagine these particular cases having any noticeable performance impact, similar changes were made in `core/` code years ago since it's apparently more efficient memory wise.
The purpose of these caches is to reduce peak memory usage, by only ever having *a single* instance of a particular object.
However, as-is these caches are never cleared and they will thus remain until the worker is destroyed. This could very well have a negative effect on total memory usage, particularly for large/long documents, hence it seems to make sense to clear out these caches together with various other ones.
This is similar to the existing caching used to reduced the number of `Cmd` and `Name` objects.
With the `tracemonkey.pdf` file, this patch changes the number of `Ref` objects as follows (in the default viewer):
| | Loading the first page | Loading *all* the pages |
|----------|------------------------|-------------------------|
| `master` | 332 | 3265 |
| `patch` | 163 | 996 |
The specification states that `CreationDate` is only available for
markup annotations instead of for all annotation types.
Moreover, popup annotations are not markup annotations according to the
specification, so the creation date inheritance from the parent
annotation is also removed there (note that only the modification date
is used in e.g., the viewer).
This includes the information in the core and display layers. The
date parsing logic from the document properties is rewritten according
to the specification and now includes unit tests.
Moreover, missing unit tests for the color of a popup annotation have
been added.
Finally the styling of the popup is changed slightly to make the text a
bit smaller (it's currently quite large in comparison to other viewers)
and to make the drop shadow a bit more subtle. The former is done to be
able to easily include the modification date in the popup similar to how
other viewers do this.
Currently `handleColorN` will fallback to add a completely unparsed/unvalidated operator when no valid pattern was found. This is unfortunate, since it could very easily lead to a couple of different errors:
- `DataCloneError`s when attempting to send the data to the main-thread, e.g. when `args` is `Dict`/`Stream`.
- Errors in `getShadingPatternFromIR` on the main-thread, unless `args` just happens to have the expected format.
- Errors when actually attempting to render the pattern on the main-thread, since the `args` will most likely not have the expected format.
Hence it probably makes sense to error in `PartialEvaluator.handleColorN`, and having invalid patterns fail gracefully via the existing `ignoreErrors` code-paths instead.
It appears that this has been broken ever since PR 9089, which also introduced this code, since the `QueueOptimizer`/`NullOptimizer` choice was made based on the still undefined `this.intent` property.
Furthermore, fixing this also uncovered the fact that the `NullOptimizer.reset` method was missing.
First of all, while this simple approach appears to work OK in practice I'm not sure if it's the best way of addressing the problem (assuming that you even want to).
Second of all, while the solution implemented here only requires tracking/checking one new boolean in order for this to work, I'm nonetheless not entirely happy about this since it will add additional overhead (albeit *very* small) to the parsing of path operators in PDF documents just for a handful of *corrupt* ones.
This way we can avoid manually building a "document id" in multiple places in `evaluator.js`, and it also let's us avoid passing in an otherwise unnecessary `PDFManager` instance when creating a `PartialEvaluator`.
While PR 10714 did address the `disableRange=true` case, it also managed to "break" the `disableStream=true` case instead since the indeterminate loadingBar is now displayed when it shouldn't; sorry about that!
The solution is simple enough though, don't attempt to fallback to `_fullRequestReader.onProgress` when handling "incomplete" loading information.
Please see the specification, https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#M11.9.12864.1Heading.71.Viewer.Preferences
Furthermore, note that this patch *only* adds API support and unit-tests but does not attempt to integrate e.g. the `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` property into the viewer (which would be necessary to address issue 10736).
The reason for this is that it's not entirely clear to me exactly if/how that could be implemented; e.g. would it be as simple as setting the `dir` attribute on the `viewerContainer` DOM element, or will it be more complicated?
There's also the question of how the `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` value interacts with the `PageMode`, and this will generally require a fair bit of manual testing. Since the direction of the *entire* viewer depends on the browser locale, there's also a somewhat open question regarding what default value to use for different locales.
Finally, if the viewer supports `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` then I'm assuming that it will be necessary to allow users to override the default value, which will require (most likely) new `SecondaryToolbar` buttons and icons for those etc.
Hence this patch only lays the necessary foundation for eventually addressing issue 10736, but defers the actual implementation until later. (Time permitting, I'll try to look into the viewer part later.)
*Please note:* This patch purposely ignores `src/display/network.js`, since its support for progressive reading depends on the non-standard `moz-chunked-arraybuffer` responseType which is currently in the process of being removed.
The file `test/pdfs/annotation-caret-ink.pdf` is already available in
the repository as a reference test for this since I supplied it for
another patch that implemented ink annotations.
This mirrors the canvas implementation where we ignore these operators.
This avoids console spam regarding unimplemented operators we're not
interested in.
For the Tracemonkey paper, we're now down to one warning about tiling
patterns which is in fact a valid one.
In particular, this should reduce intermediate string creation by using
template strings and reduce variable lookup times by removing unneeded
variables and caching `this.current` in more places.
With PR 10675 having fixed the completely broken `disableRange=true` setting in the Firefox version of PDF.js, I couldn't help but noticing that loading progress is never reported properly in that case.
Currently loading progress is only reported for the `rangeProgress` chrome-event, which obviously isn't dispatched with `disableRange=true` set. However, the `progressiveRead` chrome-event includes loading progress as well, but this information isn't being used in any way.
Furthermore, the `PDFDataRangeTransport.onDataProgress` method wasn't able to handle "complete" loading information, and neither was `PDFDataTransportStream._onProgress` since that method would only ever attempt to report it through a RangeReader (which won't exist when `disableRange=true` is set).
Note how at https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/api/ it's being described as API docs, however `src/core/annotation.js` is not part of the public API.
Furthermore, given that the code residing in the `src/core/` folder is run in a worker-thread, it's not even accessible on the main-thread (since `postMessage` is being used to transfer the data).
Hence the different API methods simply returns a "proxy" to the underlying data, but not actually the same objects and data structures as in the worker-thread itself; thus it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to expose this in API docs as far as I'm concerned.
Finally, the patch fixes a small JSDoc related typo in `src/display/api.js` when referring to the `TextStyle` typedef.
The `moz-chunked-arraybuffer` responseType is a non-standard property, which has been subsumed by the Fetch API, and it's in the process of being removed from Firefox; please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1120171 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411865
*Please note:* Rather than waiting for both `Fetch` *and* `ReadableStream` to be available in e.g. a Firefox ESR version (which is probably going to be 68 at the earliest), let's just decide that PDF.js release `2.1.266` will be the last one with `moz-chunked-arraybuffer` support and land this patch (since nothing should outright break without it anyway).
Note how `XRef.fetchUncompressed`, which is used *a lot* for most PDF documents, is calling the `makeSubStream` method without providing a `length` argument.
In practice this results in the `makeSubStream` method, on the `ChunkedStream` instance, calling the `ensureRange` method with `NaN` as the end position, thus resulting in no data being requested despite it possibly being necessary.
This may be quite bad, since in this particular case it will lead to a new `ChunkedStream` being created *and* also a new `Parser`/`Lexer` instance. Given that it's quite possible that even the very first `Parser.getObj` call could throw `MissingDataException`, this could thus lead to wasted time/resources (since re-parsing is necessary once the data finally arrives).
You obviously need to be very careful to not have `ChunkedStream.makeSubStream` accidentally requesting the *entire* file, hence its `this.end` property is of no use here, but it should be possible to at least check that the `start` of the data is present before any potentially expensive parsing occurs.
This transform resulted in an incorrectly positioned object when the
bounding box's upper-left corner did not start at (0,0), because
the translation was not reverted. This patch adds the missing transform.
The test file (tiling-pattern-box.pdf) is based on the PDF from #2825.
All but the first cube (including the PDF data) have been removed.
To trigger the bug that is fixed by this commit, I changed the BBox of
the first pattern from "[ 0 0 596 842]" to "[90 0 596 842]". Without
this patch, the dashed vertical line that intersects the corners at A
and E would disappear.
The new test file (tiling-pattern-large-steps.pdf) was manually created,
to have the following characteristics:
- Large xstep and ystep (90000)
- Page width is 4000 (which is larger than MAX_PATTERN_SIZE)
- Visually, the page consists of a red rectangle with a black border,
surrounded by a 50 unit white padding.
- Before patch: blurry; After patch: sharp
Fixes#6496Fixes#5698Fixes#1434Fixes#2825
Without this some fonts may incorrectly end up with matching `hash`es, thus breaking rendering since we'll not actually try to load/parse some of the fonts.
Note that `PartialEvaluator.preEvaluateFont` will return an empty string when no hash was computed. This will complete short-circuit the `fontAlias` comparison in `PartialEvaluator.loadFont`, since fonts which are totally different will then match if their `hash`es are empty.
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).
