The situation described in issue 14626 seems like a fairly special case, and it thus seem reasonable that we simply follow the same pattern as elsewhere in the `PartialEvaluator` when the `stopAtErrors` API-option is being used.
The call-sites are replaced by direct `typeof`-checks instead, which removes unnecessary function calls. Note that in the `src/`-folder we already had more `typeof`-cases than `isString`-calls.
This removes the `DocumentInfoValidators` structure, and thus (slightly) simplifies the code overall. With these changes we only have to iterate through, and validate, the actually available Dictionary entries.
Currently we'll happily attempt to send any argument passed to this method over to the worker-thread, without doing any sort of validation.
That could obviously be quite bad, since there's first of all no protection against sending unclonable data. Secondly, it's also possible to pass data that will cause the `Ref.get` call in the worker-thread to fail immediately.
In order to address all of these issues, we'll now properly validate the argument passed to `PDFDocumentProxy.getPageIndex` and when necessary reject already on the main-thread instead.
Trying to use a non-string argument in either a `Cmd` or a `Name` is not intended, and would basically be an implementation error. Hence we can add a non-PRODUCTION check to enforce this, similar to the existing one used e.g. in the `Dict.set` method.
This removes the `ViewerPreferencesValidators` structure, and thus (slightly) simplifies the code overall. With these changes we only have to iterate through, and validate, the actually available Dictionary entries.
Trying to use a non-string `key` in a `Dict` is not intended, and would basically be an implementation error. Hence we can add a non-PRODUCTION check to enforce this, complementing the existing `value` check added in PR 11672.
The call-sites are replaced by direct `typeof`-checks instead, which removes unnecessary function calls. Note that in the `src/`-folder we already had more `typeof`-cases than `isNum`-calls.
These changes were *mostly* done using regular expression search-and-replace, with two exceptions:
- In `Font._charToGlyph` we no longer unconditionally update the `width`, since that seems completely unnecessary.
- In `PDFDocument.documentInfo`, when parsing custom entries, we now do the `typeof`-check once.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Name` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Name` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isName` helper function for where it makes sense.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Dict` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Dict` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isDict` helper function for where it makes sense.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Cmd` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Cmd` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isCmd` helper function for where it makes sense.
This helper function is not really needed, since it's just a wrapper around a simple `instanceof` check, and it only adds unnecessary indirection in the code.
At this point all the various Stream-classes extends an abstract base-class, hence this helper function is no longer necessary and only adds unnecessary indirection in the code.
Unfortunately I don't have a test-case that breaks without this change, however the `stringToPDFString` helper function will fail if anything other than a string is passed to it.
The changes in this patch thus make this code more-or-less identical to that found in the `Catalog.{_collectJavaScript, parseDestDictionary}` methods.
According to the MDN compatibility data, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream#browser_compatibility, all browsers that we support have native `ReadableStream` implementations (since quite some time too).
Hence only Node.js is now lagging behind w.r.t. `ReadableStream` support, and its experimental implementation doesn't really help us given the life-span of the LTS releases (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js#Releases).
It seems quite unfortunate to bundle a `ReadableStream` polyfill in the `legacy` builds when it's unnecessary in browsers, given its overall size, but fortunately we can avoid that by simply listing `web-streams-polyfill` as a dependency for the `pdfjs-dist` library.
This appears to be consistent with the behaviour in both Adobe Reader and PDFium (in Google Chrome); this is essentially the same approach as used for a single decimal point in PR 9827.
With these changes, we'll now *always* replace all whitespaces with standard spaces (0x20). This behaviour is already, since many years, the default in both the viewer and the browser-tests.
- it aims to fix#14502 and bug 1721335;
- Acrobat and Pdfium do the same;
- it'll avoid to have truncated data when printed;
- change the factor to compute font size in using field height: lineHeight = 1.35*fontSize
- this is the value used by Acrobat.
- in order to not have truncated strings on the bottom, add few basic metrics for standard fonts.
- it aims to fix#14497;
- previously, only rotations with an angle 0, 90, 180 or 270 were taken into account;
- so generalize to any angle but keep the fast path for 0, 90, ... because they're likely more common than anything else.
Given that the regular expression has already become more complex (after the initial patch adding it), it seems to me that it probably cannot hurt to add a global cache to reduce unnecessary re-parsing.
Obviously the `Glyph`-instances are being cached *per* font, however in most documents multiple fonts are being used and in practice there's very often a fair amount of overlap between the /ToUnicode-data in different fonts[1].
Consider for example loading and rendering the entire `tracemonkey.pdf` document (from the test-suite), which isn't a particularily large document. In that case the `getCharUnicodeCategory` function is being called a total of `601` times, however there's only `106` *unique* unicode-chars being checked.
*Please note:* In practice I suppose that this won't have a *huge* effect on overall performance, however given the relative simplicity of this patch I figured that it'd not hurt to submit it for review.
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[1] Consider e.g. how there's usually different fonts used for regular, bold, respectively italic text.
- it aims to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749563;
- use some helper functions to get (u|i)int** values in buffer: it helps to have a clearer code;
- in composite glyphes the translations values with a transformations are signed so consequently get some int8 instead of uint8;
- add few TODOs.
Please refer to https://www.pdfa.org/norm-refs/Type1Fonts.pdf#page=15 for the expected format for the /CharStrings entries.
In the referenced PDF document the /CharStrings are missing the expected end-token, which causes us to swallow the start of the next glyph name.
After the changes in PR 14428 we can *directly*, and more efficiently, handle whitespace conversion in `PartialEvaluator.getTextContent` when the `normalizeWhitespace` option is being used.
This way we no longer need a separate helper function for this, and can avoid having to (again) iterate through the text and checking each character. Finally, this also removes the need for using a regular expression on e.g. all non-ASCII text.
In corrupt PDF documents Type3 fonts may introduce circular dependencies, thus resulting in the affected font(s) never loading and parsing/rendering never completing.
Note that I've not seen any real-world examples of this kind of font corruption, but the attached PDF document was rather found in https://github.com/pdf-association/safedocs/tree/main/Miscellaneous%20Targeted%20Test%20PDFs
*Please note:* That repository contains a number of reduced test-cases that are specifically intended to test interoperability (between PDF viewer) and parsing/rendering for various kinds of strange/corrupt PDF documents.
Some of the test-cases found there may thus not make sense to try and "fix" upfront, in my opinion, unless the problems are also found in real-world PDF documents.
The patch in PR 14335 *essentially* re-introduced the old code from before PR 3848, however looking at this code a bit closer it should be possible to simplify it by making the method asynchronous.
While this method is currently only used as a *fallback* in corrupt documents, the way that `MissingDataException`s are handled is less than ideal. Note that if a `MissingDataException` is thrown, we're forced to re-parse the *entire* /Pages tree[1].
With this method now being asynchronous, we're able to handle fetching of References in a *much* easier/nicer way than before without having to throw `MissingDataException`s and re-parse anything.
These changes also let us simplify the call-site slightly, by calling the method *directly* instead of using the `PDFManager`-instance (since again it will no longer throw `MissingDataException`s).
Furthermore, this patch contains the following other changes:
- Reduce unnecessary duplication in the various `catch` handlers throughout the method, by simply moving the `XRefEntryException` handling into the `addPageError` helper function instead.
- Move the "circular references"-check to occur slightly earlier, since there's obviously no point in asynchronously fetching data just to then throw an Error *immediately* afterwards.
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[1] Imagine e.g. a thousand page document, where there's a `MissingDataException` thrown when fetching/parsing page 900.
This method is now being used a lot more, compared to when it's added, since it's now used together with scripting as part of the `PDFDocument.fieldObjects` parsing (called during viewer initialization).
For /Page Dictionaries that we've already parsed, the `pageIndex` corresponding to a particular Reference is already known and we're thus able to skip *all* parsing in the `Catalog.getPageIndex` method for those cases.
Besides converting `Catalog.getPageDict` to an `async` method, thus simplifying the code, this patch also allows us to pro-actively fix a existing issue.
Note how we're looking up References in such a way that `MissingDataException`s won't cause trouble, however it's *technically possible* that the entries (i.e. /Count, /Kids, and /Type) in a /Pages Dictionary could actually be indirect objects as well. In the existing code this could lead to *some*, or even all, pages failing to load/render as intended.
In practice that doesn't *appear* to happen in real-world PDF documents, but given all the weird things that PDF software do I'd prefer to fix this pro-actively (rather than waiting for a bug report).
With `Catalog.getPageDict` being `async` this is now really simple to address, however I didn't want to introduce a bunch more *unconditional* asynchronicity in this method if it could be avoided (since that could slow things down). Hence we'll *synchronously* lookup the *raw* data in a /Pages Dictionary, and only fallback to asynchronous data lookup when a Reference was encountered.
In addition to the above, this patch also makes the following notable changes:
- Let `Catalog.getPageDict` *consistently* reject with the actual error, regardless of what data we're fetching. Previously we'd "swallow" the actual errors except when looking up Dictionary entries, which is inconsistent and thus seem unfortunate. As can be seen from the updated unit-tests this change is API-observable, hence why the patch is tagged `[api-minor]`.
- Improve the consistency of the Dictionary /Type-checks in both the `Catalog.getPageDict` and `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` methods.
In `Catalog.getPageDict` there's a fallback code-path where we're *incorrectly* checking the /Page Dictionary for a /Contents-entry, which is wrong since a /Page Dictionary doesn't need to have a /Contents-entry in order to be valid.
For consistency the `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` method is also updated to handle errors in the /Type-lookup correctly.
- Reduce the `PagesCountLimit.PAUSE_EAGER_PAGE_INIT` viewer constant, to further improve loading/rendering performance of the *second* page during initialization of very long documents; PR 14359 follow-up.
After the changes in PR 14338, specifically in the `XRef.parse`-method, the /Pages-entry will now always have been fetched/validated when the `Catalog`-instance is created.
Hence we can directly access the /Pages-entry in `Catalog.getPageDict` and thus avoid *one* asynchronous data-lookup per page in the document. (In practice this is unlikely to show up in e.g. benchmarks, but it really cannot hurt.)
Finally, make sure that the `getPageDict`/`getAllPageDicts`-methods track the /Pages-tree reference correctly to prevent circular references in corrupt documents.
Rather than "swallowing" the actual Errors, when data fetching fails, ensure that they're always being propagated as intended to the call-site instead.
Note that we purposely handle `XRefEntryException` specially, to make it possible to fallback to indexing all XRef objects.
Rather than trying, and failing, to fetch the entire /Pages-tree for documents with corrupt XRef tables, let's fallback to indexing all objects *before* trying to invoke the `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` method.
PR 8207 added caching to improve the performance of `Catalog.getPageDict`, by not having to repeatedly fetch the same data and also reducing the asynchronicity of that method.
However, because of *another* oversight on my part, we're only caching /Page references once we've found the correct page. As long as all pages are loaded *in order* this doesn't really matter (happens by default in the viewer), but when `disableAutoFetch` is used the pages may be fetched in a more random order (this patch reduces the asynchronicity of `Catalog.getPageDict` slightly in that case).
