According to https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/configuring-npm/package-json#version, the "version" field is not required[1]:
> If you don't plan to publish your package, the name and version fields are optional.
Hence it shouldn't be necessary to have a "dummy" `version` field in the `package.json` file, and it seems quite unfortunate to have an essentially meaningless entry in that file.[2]
Furthermore, I'd even go as far as suggesting that it's actually doing more harm than good in practice, since it's not uncommon for people to open issues where they simply quote the `package.json`-entry when filling out the ISSUE_TEMPLATE thus causing confusion as to which *exact* version is actually used.
Unless I'm misremembering, I believe that the only reason for adding the `version` field was that is was necessary in order for things to work back when testing was run on Travis.
Now we're using GitHub Actions instead, where things seem to work just find even without a `version` field; hence why I think it makes sense to remove this.
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[1] Please note that this patch doesn't affect the `pdfjs-dist` package, since the `package.json` file used there is created in `gulpfile.js` during building.
[2] Trying to, automatically, update the `version` field on *every* commit really doesn't seem worth it to me.
The PDF.js API has only ever supported accessing the original file ID, however the second one that (should) exist in *modified* documents have thus far been completely inaccessible through the API.
That seems like a simple oversight, caused e.g. by the viewer not needing it, since it really shouldn't hurt to provide API-users with the ability to check if a PDF document has been modified since its creation.[1]
Please refer to https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#G13.2261661 for additional information.
For an example of how to update existing code to use the new API, please see the changes in the `web/app.js` file included in this patch.
*Please note:* While I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to remove the old `PDFDocumentProxy.fingerprint` getter, given that it's existed since "forever", that probably isn't a big deal given that it's now limited to only `GENERIC`-builds.
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[1] Although this obviously depends on the PDF software following the specification, by updating the second file ID as intended.
Please refer to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Structured_clone_algorithm
Based on that information, and manually testing our code, the implementation in `cloneValue` has the following shortcomings:
- Attempting to clone `function`s is only prevented when they're part of an Object, but is currently allowed when they occur standalone.
- Cloning of `Symbol`s is currently not prevented, which it should be since the native structured clone algorithm throws.
- Any disallowed types should be checked first, to reduce the risk of future changes accidentally allowing something that shouldn't be supported.
Using `instanceof Object` is generally problematic, since it's not guaranteed to always do the right thing for all Objects.
(I stumbled upon this while working on another patch, when I noticed that the `outlineView` was broken with workers disabled.)
- support paragraph margins, line height, letter spacing, ...
- compute missing dimensions from fields based almost on the dimensions of caption contents.
- it aims to fix#13583;
- fix the switch to breakBefore target;
- force the layout of an unsplittable element on an empty page;
- don't fail when there is horizontal overflow (except in lr-tb);
- handle correctly overflow in the same content area (bug 1717805, bug 1717668);
- fix a typo in radial gradient first argument.
- some pdf use some fonts which are not embedded or they don't have any width array or don't have any css info (e.g. for standard fonts or Arial).
- so add widths arrays for Liberation fonts in order to compute the ones for other fonts in using scale factors array.
- the break element has been deprecated in XFA 2.4 but some old documents can use it, so replace it with one (or more) of its possible substitutions:
- breakBefore;
- breakAfter;
- overflow.
