This was deprecated in PR 15943, which has now been included in two official PDF.js releases.
Given that `PDFDataRangeTransport` is somewhat unlikely to be used outside of the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer, it doesn't seem necessary to wait longer before removing this.
Also, removes the specific error-message for GENERIC builds to not unnecessarily "advertise" using non-objects when calling the `getDocument`-function.
*Please note:* This patch is written using the GitHub UI, since I'm currently without a dev machine, so hopefully it works correctly.
We introduced the use of OffscreenCanvas in #14754 and this patch aims
to use them for all kind of images.
It'll slightly improve performances (and maybe slightly decrease memory use).
Since an image can be rendered in using some transfer maps but because of
OffscreenCanvas we don't have the underlying pixels array the transfer maps
stuff is re-implemented in using the SVG filter feComponentTransfer.
Rather than repeatedly initializing a `canvasFactory`-instance for every page, move it to the document-level instead.
*Please note:* This patch is written using the GitHub UI, since I'm currently without a dev machine, so hopefully it works correctly.
Currently some `getCtx` calls will have `isOffscreenCanvasSupported === undefined` set, meaning that `OffscreenCanvas` isn't being used as intended, since no `TextLayerRenderTask._isOffscreenCanvasSupported` property exists.
*Please note:* This patch is written using the GitHub UI, since I'm currently without a dev machine, so hopefully it works correctly.
I noticed several 'Path not found' errors because of a field called #subform[2].
From the XFA specs, the hash is used for a class of elements in the template tree.
When we're looking for a node in the datasets tree, it doesn't make sense to search
for a class. Hence the path element starting with a hash are just skipped.
With upcoming changes we'll potentially start to cache `ImageBitmap` data at the document-level, in addition to just at the page-level.
Hence we need to ensure that such data is actually released on clean-up, and rather than duplicating the existing *manual* handling this code is instead moved into the `PDFObjects.clear` method. (In my opinion, this is an overall improvement even without globally cached `ImageBitmap` data.)
*Please note:* This patch is written using the GitHub UI, since I'm currently without a dev machine, so hopefully it's correct and makes sense.
The `Buffer`-object is Node.js specific functionality[1], thus (obviously) not found in browsers. Please note that the PDF.js library has never officially supported/documented that binary data can be passed as a `Buffer`, and that *internally* in the `src/core`-code we only work with standard `Uint8Array`s.
This means that if, in Node.js environments, a `Buffer` is passed to the API we need to wrap it into a `Uint8Array`, which essentially means creating a copy of the data and thus increasing memory usage.
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[1] Refer to https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer
Currently we duplicate the same code more than once in the `test/driver.js` file, which we can avoid by adding a new `AnnotationStorage` helper method instead.
By default we're using worker-thread fetching (in browsers) of this data nowadays, however in Node.js environments or if the user provides custom factories we still fallback to main-thread fetching.
Hence it makes sense, as far as I'm concerned, to move this initialization into the `getDocument` function to ensure that the factories can actually be initialized *before* attempting to load the document.
Also, this further reduces the amount of `getDocument` parameters that we need to pass into into the `WorkerTransport` class.
Currently we're passing all available parameters to this function respectively class, despite that not actually being necessary.
By splitting the parameters we not only improve the structure, and basically "document" the code a little bit, but we can also simplify the `_fetchDocument` function considerably.
This is very old code, where we loop through the user-provided options and build an internal parameter object. To prevent errors we also need to ensure that the parameters are correct/valid, which is especially important for the ones that are sent to the worker-thread such that structured cloning won't fail.[1]
Over the years this has led to more and more code being added in `getDocument` to validate the user-provided options, and at this point *most* of them have at least basic validation. However the way that this is implemented feels slightly backwards, since we first build the internal parameter object and only *afterwards* validate those parameters.[2]
Hence this patch changes the `getDocument` function to instead check/validate the supported options upfront, and then *explicitly* build the internal parameter object with only the needed properties.
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[1] Note the supported types at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Structured_clone_algorithm#supported_types
[2] The internal parameter object may also, because of the loop, end up with lots of unnecessary properties since anything that the user provides is being copied.
A number of methods have their Promises cached, to avoid repeated worker round-trips, since they're expected to be called more than once from the default viewer. The way that the caching is currently implemented means that we need to remember to manually clear these Promises on document cleanup/destruction, and it'd be nice to avoid that.
With this patch the relevant Promises are now instead placed in just one `Map`, which is easy to clear, and a new helper method is also introduced to reduce duplication for *simple* `WorkerTransport` methods.
The only parameter that we actually need here is the `PDFDataRangeTransport`-instance, since the others are not necessary.
- The `url` parameter, as passed to the `getDocument` function in the API, is simply being ignored; see 2d87a2eb1c/src/display/api.js (L447-L458)
- The `length` parameter, as passed to the `getDocument` function in the API, is always being overwritten; see 2d87a2eb1c/src/display/api.js (L519-L525)
Until PR 12563 is deemed safe to land, I'd still like to be able to use worker-modules in the viewer during local development.
Hence this patch which *temporarily* adds a new `workerModules` hash-parameter, only available in non-PRODUCTION mode, that allows using worker-modules in the development viewer.
To enable this functionality, simply use http://localhost:8888/web/viewer.html#workerModules=true
The initial CMap support was added in PR 4259 using the "raw" Adobe files, however they were quickly deemed to be unnecessarily large. As a result PR 4470 introduced the more compact "binary" CMap format, with both of those PRs being included in the very same release (version `0.8.1334`) .
Please note that we've thus never shipped anything *except* the "binary" CMap files with the PDF library, and furthermore note that we've not even once updated the CMap files since they were originally added almost nine years ago.
Requiring users to remember that `cMapPacked = true` is necessary, in addition to setting the `cMapUrl` parameter, in order for CMap loading to work feels like a less than ideal API.
Hence this patch, which suggests that we simply let `cMapPacked` default to `true` now.
Until just recently the only existing `Path2D` polyfill didn't have support for Node.js and/or the `node-canvas` package. Given that this was just fixed, in the latest version, we can now finally remove our inline-checks at the relevant call-sites; please also see https://github.com/nilzona/path2d-polyfill#usage-with-node-canvas
There's really no need for these "complicated" default value assignments, since `GlobalWorkerOptions` is a local variable at this point, and this is rather a case of too much copy-and-paste.
Note that years ago, when all options were set using a global `PDFJS` object, it's possible that options had been set (from the outside) *before* the object had been properly initialized; see e.g. a89071bdef/src/display/global.js
In general it's always recommended to pass a *parameter object* when calling the `getDocument`-function in the API, since that's the only way to provide additional options, and the fact that it also accepts a URL or TypedArray directly is now mostly for backwards compatibility reasons.
Unfortunately we cannot really remove this, since that code has existed since "forever", however we can limit it to only the GENERIC build to avoid completely unnecessary checks in e.g. the Firefox PDF Viewer.
Finally, note that the default-viewer always provides a *parameter object* when calling the `getDocument`-function and it's thus completely unaffected by these changes.
- Use a `URL`-instance directly, since it's by definition an absolute URL.
- Actually limit the "raw" url-string handling to Node.js environments, as intended.
- Skip the warning, since we're already throwing an Error if the `url`-parameter is invalid.
In general it's recommended to pass a *parameter object* when calling the `getDocument`-function in the API, since that's the only way to provide additional options, and the fact that it also accepts a URL or TypedArray directly is now mostly for backwards compatibility reasons.
However, the `getDocument`-function also accepts a direct `PDFDataRangeTransport`-instance which just seems unnecessary.
*Please note:* The `PDFDataRangeTransport`-implementation was added specifically for the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer, however it's most likely not commonly used by any third-party (given that it requires manual PDF-data loading).
Furthermore, the default-viewer always provides a *parameter object* when calling the `getDocument`-function and it's thus completely unaffected by these changes.
This patch removes the recently introduced `transferPdfData` API-option, and simply enables transferring of TypedArray data *by default* instead of copying it. This will help reduce main-thread memory usage, however it will take ownership of the TypedArrays. Currently this only applies to the following cases:
- TypedArrays passed to the `getDocument`-function in the API, in order to open PDF documents from binary data.
- TypedArrays passed to a `PDFDataRangeTransport`-instance, used to support custom PDF document fetching/loading (see e.g. the Firefox PDF Viewer).
*PLEASE NOTE:* To avoid being affected by this, please simply *copy* any TypedArray data before passing it to either of the functions/methods mentioned above.
Now that we transfer TypedArray data that we previously only copied, we need to be more careful with input validation. Given how the `{IPDFStreamReader, IPDFStreamRangeReader}.read` methods will always return ArrayBuffer data, which is then transferred to the worker-thread[1], the actual TypedArray data passed to the API thus need to have the same exact size as its underlying ArrayBuffer to prevent issues.
Hence we'll check for this and only allow transferring of *safe* TypedArray data, and fallback to simply copying the data just as before. This obviously shouldn't be an issue in the Firefox PDF Viewer, but for the general PDF.js library we need to be more careful here.
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[1] See e09ad99973/src/display/api.js (L2492-L2506) respectively e09ad99973/src/display/api.js (L2578-L2590)
Note how in the API we're transferring the PDF data that's fetched over the network[1]:
- f28bf23a31/src/display/api.js (L2467-L2480)
- f28bf23a31/src/display/api.js (L2553-L2564)
To support that functionality we have the `PDFDataTransportStream`, `PDFFetchStream`, `PDFNetworkStream`, and `PDFNodeStream` implementations. Here these stream-implementations vary slightly in how they handle `ArrayBuffer`s internally, w.r.t. transferring or copying the data:
- In `PDFDataTransportStream` we optionally, after PR 15908, allow transferring of the PDF data as provided externally (used e.g. in the Firefox PDF Viewer).
- In `PDFFetchStream` we're currenly always copying the PDF data returned by the Fetch API, which seems unnecessary. As discussed in PR 15908, it'd seem very weird if this sort of browser API didn't allow transferring of the returned data.
- In `PDFNetworkStream` we're already, since many years, transferring the PDF data returned by the `XMLHttpRequest` functionality. Note how the `getArrayBuffer` helper function simply returns an `ArrayBuffer` response as-is.
- In `PDFNodeStream` we're currently copying the PDF data, however this is unfortunately necessary since Node.js returns data as a `Buffer` object[2].
Given that the `PDFNetworkStream` has been, indirectly, supporting transferring of PDF data for years it would seem really strange if this didn't also apply to the `PDFFetchStream`-implementation.
Hence this patch simply enables transferring of PDF data, when accessed using the Fetch API, unconditionally to help reduced main-thread memory usage since the `PDFFetchStream`-implementation is used *by default* in browsers (for the GENERIC build).
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[1] As opposed to PDF data being provided as e.g. a TypedArray when calling `getDocument` in the API.
[2] This is a "special" Node.js object, see https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer, which doesn't exist in browsers.
Also, removes the `initialData`-parameter JSDocs for the `getDocument`-function given that this parameter has been completely unused since PR 8982 (over five years ago). Note that the `initialData`-parameter is, and always was, intended to be provided when initializing a `PDFDataRangeTransport`-instance.
Given that this is internal functionality, not exposed in the official API, it's not entirely clear (at least to me) why we can't just initialize this directly in `src/display/api.js` instead.
When testing both the development viewer and all the ways in which we run tests, everthing still appears to work just fine with this patch.
This was deprecated in PR 15758 but it's unfortunately quite difficult to tell if third-party users are depending on this, e.g. to implement custom error reporting, and if so to what extent.
However, thanks to the pre-processor we can limit *most* of this code to GENERIC builds which still seem like a worthwhile change.
These changes reduce the bundle size of the Firefox PDF Viewer by 3.8 kB in total.
This was deprecated in PR 15758 and given that it's quite unlikely that any third-party users are relying on this functionality, since it was only ever added to support telemetry reporting in the Firefox PDF Viewer, it should hopefully be fine to remove this fairly quickly.
These changes reduce the bundle size of the Firefox PDF Viewer by 4.5 kB in total.
Given that the Fetch API only supports the http/https protocols, worker-thread fetching of CMaps and Standard-fonts may thus fail in certain cases. To improve the default behaviour we'll now also check that the `cMapUrl` and `standardFontDataUrl` options are appropriate, except in Firefox where this should always work.
Note how, in the scripting initialization in the viewer, we only ever invoke `PDFPageProxy.getJSActions` *once* per page in order to improve overall performance; see a575aa13b9/web/pdf_scripting_manager.js (L372-L375)
Hence it really shouldn't be necessary to cache its result in the API, especially when that is done *manually* rather than using something like `shadow`.
When we're destroying a `PDFPageProxy`-instance, during full document destruction, we'll force-abort any worker-thread parsing of operatorLists. Hence we should make sure that any pending cancel timeout is always aborted, since a later `PDFPageProxy._abortOperatorList` call should always "replace" a previous one.
*Please note:* Technically this was always wrong, but with the changes in PR 15825 it became *ever so slightly* easier to trigger this thanks to the potentially longer timeout.
By moving this code the "pageviewer"-component example will become slightly more usable on its own, it may simplify a future addition of XFA Foreground document support, and finally also serves as preparation for the following patches.
This is done to support upcoming viewer-changes, and in order to prevent third-party users from outright breaking things we'll simply ignore too large values.
