Please note that this functionality has never really mattered for the Firefox PDF Viewer, the GENERIC viewer, or even the "simpleviewer"/"singlepageviewer" component-examples. Hence, in practice this means that only the "pageviewer" component-example[1] have ever really utilized this.
Using factories to initialize various layers in the viewer, rather than simply invoking the relevant code directly, seems (at least to me) like a somewhat roundabout way of doing things.
Not only does this lead to more code, both to write and maintain, but since many of the layers have common parameters (e.g. an `AnnotationStorage`-instance) there's also some duplication.
Hence this patch, which removes the `annotationEditorLayerFactory` and instead uses a lookup-function in the `PDFPageView`-class to access the external viewer-properties as necessary.
Note that this should even be an improvement for the "pageviewer" component-example, since most layers will now work by default rather than require manual configuration.
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[1] In practice we generally suggest using the "simpleviewer", or "singlepageviewer", since it does *most* things out-of-the-box and given that a lot of functionality really require *a viewer* and not just a single page in order to work.
It doesn't seem necessary to have a *separate* `destroy` method given that the `cancel` method always invokes it unconditionally.
In the `PDFPageView.reset` method we currently attempt to call `destroy` directly, however that'll never actually happen since either:
- We're keeping the annotationEditorLayer, in which case we're just hiding the layer and nothing more (and the relevant branch is never entered).
- We're removing the annotationEditorLayer, in which case the `PDFPageView.cancelRendering` method has already cancelled *and* nulled it (and there's thus nothing left to `destroy` here).
*Please note:* Hopefully I'm not overlooking something obvious here, since both reading through the code *and* also adding `console.log(this.annotationEditorLayer);` [before this line](9d4aadbf7a/web/pdf_page_view.js (L438)) suggests that it's indeed unnecessary.
The `PDFPageProxy._pageIndex` property is a "private" one that shouldn't be accessed, since it could theoretically break tomorrow if we re-factor the relevant API code.
Also, try to clean-up and improve consistency in a couple of JSDoc comments.
This patch doesn't structurally change the text layer: it just adds some aria-owns
attributes to some spans.
The aria-owns attribute expect to have an element id, hence it's why it adds back an
id on the element rendering an annotation, but this id is built in using crypto.randomUUID
to avoid any potential issues with the hash in the url.
The elements in the annotation layer are moved into the DOM in order to have them in the
same "order" as they visually are.
The overall goal is to help screen readers to present to the user the annotations as
they visually are and as they come in the text flow.
It is clearly not perfect, but it should improve readability for some people with visual
disabilities.
- In the annotationEditorLayer, reorder the editors in the DOM according
the position of the elements on the screen;
- add an aria-owns attribute on the "nearest" element in the text layer
which points to the added editor.
- As in the annotation layer, use percent instead of pixels as unit;
- handle the rotation of the editor layer in allowing editing when rotation
angle is not zero;
- the different editors are rotated counterclockwise in order to be usable
when the main page is itself rotated;
- add support for saving/printing rotated editors.
