I've been looking into the remaining point in 8637 about blurry images, to see if we could perhaps improve the rendering quality slightly there. After quite a bit of debugging, it seems that the issue is limited to certain progressive JPEG images.
As mentioned previously, I've got no detailed knowledge of the JPEG format, but this patch does seem to improve things quite a bit for the images in question.
Squinting at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/6c33dde6ca02b389c52e8db3d22494df8b916f33/media/libjpeg/jdphuff.c#492-639, it seems reasonable that we should take the sign of the data into account. Furthermore, looking at the specification in https://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf#page=118, the "F.2.4.3 Decoding the binary decision sequence for non-zero DC differences and AC coefficients" section even contains a description of this (even though I cannot claim to really understand the details).
The bug that this patch fixes is limited to the built-in JPEG decoder, and was unearthed by PR 9260. The underlying issue has existed since PR 6984, where the contents of this patch ought to have been included (if it weren't for the fact that we had no *easy* way to test `src/core/jpg.js` back then).
*Please note:* The slight movement in the reference test is a result of using the `src/core/jpg.js` decoder, rather than the native browser one.
Initially I just implemented the unit tests, but quickly found that they
were failing my expectation of having a size of 256 items. Some of them
did contain 256 items and some did not. I looked up various resources
and figured that they indeed all need to have 256 items. One of the good
resources is https://github.com/davidben/poppler/blob/master/poppler/FontEncodingTables.cc
Aside from some missing `notdef` (empty string) entries at the end of
the arrays, which I assume causes issues since it may cause
out-of-bounds array access which in JavaScript gives `undefined`, there
was a `notdef` entry missing in the `MacExpertEncoding`, causing the
entries after that to be shifted. This fix for this is similar to the
one in #8589.
The unit tests verify that, for known encoding names, the return value
is not only an array, but that it is also of the right length and
contains only strings.
The PDF file in the issue uses a number of *embedded* versions of Lucida fonts, but for some reason does *not* embed the LucidaSans-Demi font. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida#Usages that one should be bold, so we can at least improve rendering here (even though it won't look perfect).
Fixes 9291.
I recall being confused as to the purpose of the `encrypted` property all the way back when working on PR 4750.
Looking at the history, this property was added in PR 1698 when password support was added to the API/viewer. However, its only purpose seem to have been to facilitate the addition of a `isEncrypted` function in the API. That function never, as far as I can tell, saw any use and was unceremoniously removed in PR 4144.
Since we want to avoid sending all non-essential data early during initial document loading (e.g. PR 4750), it seems correct to get rid of the `encrypted` property. Especially since it hasn't even been exposed in the API for over three years, with no complaints that I'm aware of.
Finally note that the `encrypt` property on the `XRef` instance isn't tied to the code that's being removed here. Given that we're calling `PDFDocument.parse` during `createDocumentHandler` in the worker which, via `PDFDocument.setup`, calls `XRef.parse` where the `Encrypt` data (if it exists) is always parsed.
This patch refactors the searching for 'endobj', to try and find the next occurance of "obj" and then check if it was in fact an 'endobj' and continue searching otherwise.
This approach is used to avoid having to first find 'endobj', and then re-check the entire contents of the object and having to run (potentially expensive) regular expressions on arbitrary long strings.
Fixes 9105.
Note that no other image stream implements a special `getBytes` method, which makes `JpegStream` look somewhat odd.
I'm actually not sure what purpose this methods serves, since I successfully ran all tests locally with it commented out. Furhermore, I also ran tests with an added `if (length && length !== this.bufferLength) { throw new Error('length mismatch'); }` check, and didn't get a single test failure in that case either.
Looking at the history, it seems that this code originated back in PR 4528, but as far as I can tell there's no mention in either commit messages nor PR comments of why it was necessary to add a "special" `getBytes` function for the `JpegStream`.
My assumption is that there's a good reason why this method was added, e.g. to address a *specific* regression in one of the reference tests. However, I did check out commit 58f697f977 locally and ran tests with this method commented out, and there didn't seem to be any image-related failures in that case either!?
Hence I'm suggesting that we attempt to simplify this code slightly be removing this special `getBytes` method. However, please note that there's perhaps a *small* risk of regressions in an edge-case where we currently have insufficient test-coverage.
There's a number of issues with the fonts in the referenced PDF file. First of all, they contain broken `ToUnicode` data (`NUL` bytes all over the place). However even if you skip those, the `ToUnicode` data appears to contain nothing but a `IdentityH` CMap which won't help provide a proper glyph mapping.
The real issue actually turns out to be that the PDF file uses the "Calibri" font[1], but doesn't include any font files. Since that one isn't a standard font, and uses a fairly different CID to GID map compared to the standard fonts, we're not able to render the file even remotely correct.
To work around this, I'm thus proposing that we include a (incomplete) glyph map for Calibri, and fallback to the standard Helvetica font. Obviously this isn't going to look perfect, but it's really the best that we can hope to achieve given that the PDF file is missing the necessary font data.
Finally, please note that none of the PDF readers I've tried (Adobe Reader, PDFium in Chrome) were able to extract the text (which isn't very surprising, given the broken `ToUnicode` data).
Fixes 9195.
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[1] According to Wikipedia, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri, Calibri is (primarily) a Windows font.
In some fonts, the included `ToUnicode` data is incomplete causing text-selection to not work properly. For simple fonts that contain encoding data, we can manually build a `ToUnicode` map to attempt to improve things.
Please note that since we're currently using the `ToUnicode` data during glyph mapping, in an attempt to avoid rendering regressions, I purposely didn't want to amend to original `ToUnicode` data for this text-selection edge-case.
Instead, I opted for the current solution, which will (hopefully) give slightly better text-extraction results in PDF file with incomplete `ToUnicode` data.
According to the PDF specification, see [section 9.10.2](http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#G8.1873172):
> A conforming reader can use these methods, in the priority given, to map a character code to a Unicode value.
> ...
Reading that paragraph literally, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to use *different* methods for different charcodes.
Fixes 8229.
The interface of all of the "image" streams look kind of weird, and I'm actually a bit surprised that there hasn't been any errors because of it.
For example: None of them actually implement `readBlock` methods, and it seems more luck that anything else that we're not calling `getBytes()` (without providing a length) for those streams, since that would trigger a code-path in `getBytes` that assumes `readBlock` to exist.
To address this long-standing issue, the `ensureBuffer` methods are thus renamed to `readBlock`. Furthermore, the new `ensureBuffer` methods are now no-ops.
Finally, this patch also replaces `var` with `let` in a number of places.
In the PDF file, the `ToUnicode` data first maps the hyphen correctly, and then *overwrites* it to point to the softhyphen instead. That one cannot be rendered in browsers, and an empty space thus appear instead.
Fixes 9084.
This patch makes use of the existing `ignoreErrors` property in `src/core/evaluator.js`, see PRs 8240 and 8441, thus allowing us to attempt to recovery as much as possible of a page even when it contains broken XObjects.
Fixes 8702.
Fixes 8704.
*Follow-up to PR 8909.*
This requires us to pass around `pdfFunctionFactory` to quite a lot of existing code, however I don't see another way of handling this while still guaranteeing that we can access `PDFFunction` as freely as in the old code.
Please note that the patch passes all tests locally (unit, font, reference), and I *very* much hope that we have sufficient test-coverage for the code in question to catch any typos/mistakes in the re-factoring.
The `inline` parameter is passed to a number of methods/functions in `PDFImage`, despite not actually being used. Its value is never checked, nor is it ever assigned to the current `PDFImage` instance (i.e. no `this.inline = inline` exists).
Looking briefly at the history of this code, I was also unable to find a point in time where `inline` was being used.
As far as I'm concerned, `inline` does nothing more than add clutter to already very unwieldy method/function signatures, hence why I'm proposing that we just remove it.
To further simplify call-sites using `PDFImage`/`NativeImageDecoder`, a number of methods/functions are changed to take Objects rather than a bunch of (somewhat) randomly ordered parameters.
