An annotation doesn't have to be in the text flow, hence it's likely a bad idea
to insert its text in the text layer. But the text must be visible from a screen
reader point of view so it must somewhere in the DOM.
So with this patch, the text from a FreeText annotation is extracted and added in
a div in its HTML counterpart, and with the patch #15237 the text should be visible
and positioned relatively to the text flow.
To improve performance of the sidebar we use the page-canvases to generate the thumbnails whenever possible, since that avoids unnecessary re-rendering when the sidebar is open. This works generally well, however there's an old problem in PDF documents that contain interactive forms (when those are enabled): Note how the thumbnails become partially (or fully) blank, since those Annotations are not included in the OperatorList.[1]
We obviously want to keep using the `PDFThumbnailView.setImage`-method for most documents, however we need a way to skip it only for those pages that contain interactive forms.
As it turns out it's unfortunately not all that simple to tell, after the fact, from looking only at the OperatorList that some Annotations were skipped. While it might have been possible to try and infer that in the viewer, it'd not have been pretty considering that at the time when rendering finishes the annotationLayer has not yet been built.
The overall simplest solution that I could come up with, was instead to include a *summary* of the interactive form-state when doing the final "flushing" of the OperatorList and expose that information in the API.
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[1] Some examples from our test-suite: `annotation-tx2.pdf` where the thumbnail is completely blank, and `bug1737260.pdf` where the thumbnail is missing the "buttons" found on the page.
Currently some `OPS.beginAnnotation` arguments will contain a `Number` value for the `isUsingOwnCanvas`-parameter, or in some cases an `undefined` value, which is inconsistent from an API perspective.
We can undo/redo a command which will at some point add a command in the queue: typically
it can happening when redoing an addition.
So the idea is to lock the queue when undoing/redoing.
- After undoing a deletion of several editors, they appeared to be selected (they had a red border)
when in fact they were not, consequently, this patch aims to remove the selectedEditor class when
an editor is removed;
- Add a test with some ink editors.
The previous version was maybe functional but definitely painful to maintain
(maybe more efficient... I don't know) so this patch aims to simplify it and
it adds some basic unit tests.
In the referenced PDF document the fonts have /CIDToGIDMap-entries that cannot be loaded. Hence, only when `ignoreErrors` is set, we'll now ignore these corrupt /CIDToGIDMap-entries and fallback to simply assume that no such data is available.
Given that this is *clearly* a case of a corrupt PDF document, there's no guarantee that this will "fix" things in the general case since a /CIDToGIDMap may be *required* in order for some composite fonts to render correctly. However, attempting to render *something* is surely better than skipping a font altogether.
- 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.
- in using the global clipboard, it'll be possible to copy from a
pdf and paste in an other one;
- it'll allow to edit a previously created annotation;
- copy the editors in the current page.
Note that these cases, which are all in older code, were found using the [`unicorn/no-for-loop`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn/blob/main/docs/rules/no-for-loop.md) ESLint plugin rule.
However, note that I've opted not to enable this rule by default since there's still *some* cases where I do think that it makes sense to allow "regular" for-loops.
The current version 2.5 is from September 2014, which is almost 8 years
old now. The new version 3.19.0 is from November 2017, which is still
almost 5 years old, but is a step forward towards eventually using the
most recent version. Note that we currently can't update any further;
see #11802 for the details.
Fortunately using this newer version only required a few changes:
- The `ttx` output regexes needed updating to ignore comments that `ttx`
now puts after some XML nodes (`<!-- ... -->` and `/* ... */`).
- The `ttx` invocation now explicitly uses `python2` (except on Windows
where this alias doesn't exist) since otherwise the font tests can't
be run on modern systems anymore given that `python` is nowadays an
alias for `python3`, and it now points at the new location of the
`ttx.py` file since the `Tools` folder got removed.
- The note about needing a 32-bit Python 2.6 version is dropped since
it's obsolete: this version (and also the existing one already) work
just fine on a 64-bit Python 2.7 as well.
Rather than including all of this external code in the PDF.js repository, we should be using the npm package instead.
Unfortunately this is slightly more complicated than you'd hope, since the `fit-curve` package (which is older) isn't directly compatible with modern JavaScript modules.
In particular, the following cases needed to be considered:
- For the development viewer (i.e. `gulp server`) and the unit-tests, we thus need to build a fitCurve-bundle that can be directly `import`ed.
- For the actual PDF.js build-targets, we can slightly reduce the sizes by depending on the "raw" `fit-curve` source-code.
- For the Node.js unit-tests, the `fit-curve` package can be used as-is.
This extends PR 13461, by also building a fallback bounding box for Type3 fonts that contain a much too small /FontBBox-entry.
*Please note:* While this patch improves things overall, copy-and-pasting still doesn't work perfectly for this document. In particular the lowercase letter "c" cannot be selected/copied, however this can be reproduced in both Adobe Reader and PDFium (in Google Chrome) too, which is caused by a lack of proper /ToUnicode-data in the PDF document.
Rather than forcing the user to *manually* call `setDimensions`, which is also breaking any existing third-party code, it seems that we can simply let the `AnnotationLayer.{render, update}`-methods handle that internally.
As far as I can tell, based on testing manually in the viewer *and* running the browser-tests, everything still appears to work correctly with this patch.
Currently we're loading the `web/annotation_layer_builder.css` and `web/xfa_layer_builder.css` files *directly* during the reference tests.
This becomes a problem is we want to reduce duplication in the CSS-files, e.g. by placing *common* rules in the `web/pdf_viewer.css` file.
Given that `gulp components` is already being utilized when running tests, we can thus use that to instead depend on the *entire* viewer-components CSS-file in the reference tests.
- 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.
Given that Annotations can also have an `OC`-entry, we need to take that into account when generating their operatorLists.
Note that in order to simplify the patch the `getOperatorList`-methods, for the Annotation-classes, were converted to be `async`.
- the annotations must be rendered in the same order as the chronological one.
- fix a bug in document.js which avoids to read a saved pdf correctly in Acrobat:
there is no need to reset the xref state: it's done in worker.js once everything
has been saved.
Given that printing is triggered *synchronously* in browsers, it's thus possible for scripting (in PDF documents) to modify the Annotation-data while printing is currently ongoing.
To work-around that we add a new printing-specific `AnnotationStorage`, where the serializable data is *frozen* upon initialization, which the viewer can thus create/utilize during printing.
- each annotation has its coordinates/dimensions expressed in percentage,
hence it's correctly positioned whatever the scale factor is;
- the font sizes are expressed in percentage too and the main font size
is scaled thanks a css var (--scale-factor);
- the rotation is now applied on the div annotationLayer;
- this patch improve the rendering of some strings where the glyph spacing
was not correct (it's a Firefox bug);
- it helps to simplify the code and it should slightly improve the update of
page (on zoom or rotation).
