Having these methods fallback to returning `null` in only *one* particular case seems outright wrong, since a "falsy" value will thus be handled incorrectly.
The only reason that this hasn't caused issues in practice is that there's only one call-site passing in three keys, and in that case we're trying to read a font file where falling back to `null` isn't a problem.
Hopefully this patch makes sense, and in order to reduce the regression risk the implementation ensures that only completely missing widths are being replaced.
Having recently worked with this code, it struck me that most of the `postMessage` calls where `Error`s are involved have never been correctly implemented (i.e. missing `wrapReason` calls).
These functions aren't returning anything, now that they're using `ReadableStream`s, and it thus doesn't seem necessary to re-throw errors (also given the console message that's caused by it).
*Please note:* The majority of this patch was written by Yury, and it's simply been rebased and slightly extended to prevent issues when dealing with `RenderingCancelledException`.
By leveraging streams this (finally) provides a simple way in which parsing can be aborted on the worker-thread, which will ultimately help save resources.
With this patch worker-thread parsing will *only* be aborted when the document is destroyed, and not when rendering is cancelled. There's a couple of reasons for this:
- The API currently expects the *entire* OperatorList to be extracted, or an Error to occur, once it's been started. Hence additional re-factoring/re-writing of the API code will be necessary to properly support cancelling and re-starting of OperatorList parsing in cases where the `lastChunk` hasn't yet been seen.
- Even with the above addressed, immediately cancelling when encountering a `RenderingCancelledException` will lead to worse performance in e.g. the default viewer. When zooming and/or rotation of the document occurs it's very likely that `cancel` will be (almost) immediately followed by a new `render` call. In that case you'd obviously *not* want to abort parsing on the worker-thread, since then you'd risk throwing away a partially parsed Page and thus be forced to re-parse it again which will regress perceived performance.
- This patch is already *somewhat* risky, given that it touches fundamentally important/critical code, and trying to keep it somewhat small should hopefully reduce the risk of regressions (and simplify reviewing as well).
Time permitting, once this has landed and been in Nightly for awhile, I'll try to work on the remaining points outlined above.
Co-Authored-By: Yury Delendik <ydelendik@mozilla.com>
Co-Authored-By: Jonas Jenwald <jonas.jenwald@gmail.com>
This is based on a real-world PDF file I encountered very recently[1], although I'm currently unable to recall where I saw it.
Note that different PDF viewers handle these sort of errors differently, with Adobe Reader outright failing to render the attached PDF file whereas PDFium mostly handles it "correctly".
The patch makes the following notable changes:
- Refactor the `cropBox` and `mediaBox` getters, on the `Page`, to reduce unnecessary duplication. (This will also help in the future, if support for extracting additional page bounding boxes are added to the API.)
- Ensure that the page bounding boxes, i.e. `cropBox` and `mediaBox`, are never empty to prevent issues/weirdness in the viewer.
- Ensure that the `view` getter on the `Page` will never return an empty intersection of the `cropBox` and `mediaBox`.
- Add an *optional* parameter to `Util.intersect`, to allow checking that the computed intersection isn't actually empty.
- Change `Util.intersect` to have consistent return types, since Arrays are of type `Object` and falling back to returning a `Boolean` thus seem strange.
---
[1] In that case I believe that only the `cropBox` was empty, but it seemed like a good idea to attempt to fix a bunch of related cases all at once.
With the changes to the `StreamType`/`FontType` "enums" in PR 11029, one unfortunate result is that `getStats` now *always* returns empty Arrays. Something that everyone, myself included, apparently missed is that you obviously cannot index an Array with Strings :-)
I wrongly assumed that the unit-tests would catch any bugs, but they apparently suffered from the same issue as the code in `src/core/`.
Another possible option could perhaps be to use `Set`s, rather than objects, but that will require larger changes since `LoopbackPort` (in `src/display/api.js`) doesn't support them.
There's a number of spots in the current code, and tests, where `cancel` methods are not called with appropriate arguments (leading to Promises not being rejected with Errors as intended).
In some cases the cancel `reason` is implicitly set to `undefined`, and in others the cancel `reason` is just a plain String. To address this inconsistency, the patch changes things such that cancelling is done with `AbortException`s everywhere instead.
Add a work-around, in `glyphlist.js`, for bad PDF generators which use a non-standard `/f_f` string in the `Encoding` dictionary when referring to the ff ligature (issue 11016)
This patch will not incur any (measurable) overhead, since the glyphlist is already quite long and one more entry won't really matter, which is important given that this sort of PDF corruption ought to be very rare.
Furthermore, this patch purposely does *not* add a bunch of similarly modified ligature names on pure speculation. Any similar additions, for other ligatures, should only be made if there's real-world examples of PDF files where that's actually necessary.
For very large and complex PDF files this will help performance slightly, since `Parser.shift` is called *a lot* during parsing.
This patch was tested using the PDF file from issue 2618, i.e. http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=226471 (with well over *four million* `Parser.shift` calls for just the one page), using the following manifest file:
```
[
{ "id": "issue2618",
"file": "../web/pdfs/issue2618.pdf",
"md5": "",
"rounds": 100,
"type": "eq"
}
]
```
This gave the following results when comparing this patch against the `master` branch:
```
-- Grouped By browser, stat --
browser | stat | Count | Baseline(ms) | Current(ms) | +/- | % | Result(P<.05)
------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------------
Firefox | Overall | 100 | 3386 | 3322 | -65 | -1.92 | faster
Firefox | Page Request | 100 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -8.08 |
Firefox | Rendering | 100 | 3385 | 3321 | -65 | -1.92 | faster
```
A lot of the `new Parser()` call-sites look quite unwieldy/ugly as-is, with a bunch of somewhat randomly ordered arguments, which we can avoid by changing the constructor to accept an object instead. As an added bonus, this provides better documentation without having to add inline argument comments in the code.
See https://github.com/mozilla/eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized
Since we've generally never allowed e.g. `innerHTML`, which is enforced during review, there's only one linting failure with this patch. (Which is white-listed, according to the existing comment and the fact that it's test-only code.)
The border `width` will instead fallback to the default value of `1`, rather than ignoring it altoghether, to also ensure that e.g. `LinkAnnotation`s become clickable as intended.
Fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552113
This is similar to the existing caching used to reduced the number of `Cmd` and `Name` objects.
With the `tracemonkey.pdf` file, this patch changes the number of `Ref` objects as follows (in the default viewer):
| | Loading the first page | Loading *all* the pages |
|----------|------------------------|-------------------------|
| `master` | 332 | 3265 |
| `patch` | 163 | 996 |
The specification states that `CreationDate` is only available for
markup annotations instead of for all annotation types.
Moreover, popup annotations are not markup annotations according to the
specification, so the creation date inheritance from the parent
annotation is also removed there (note that only the modification date
is used in e.g., the viewer).
This includes the information in the core and display layers. The
date parsing logic from the document properties is rewritten according
to the specification and now includes unit tests.
Moreover, missing unit tests for the color of a popup annotation have
been added.
Finally the styling of the popup is changed slightly to make the text a
bit smaller (it's currently quite large in comparison to other viewers)
and to make the drop shadow a bit more subtle. The former is done to be
able to easily include the modification date in the popup similar to how
other viewers do this.
First of all, while this simple approach appears to work OK in practice I'm not sure if it's the best way of addressing the problem (assuming that you even want to).
Second of all, while the solution implemented here only requires tracking/checking one new boolean in order for this to work, I'm nonetheless not entirely happy about this since it will add additional overhead (albeit *very* small) to the parsing of path operators in PDF documents just for a handful of *corrupt* ones.
This way we can avoid manually building a "document id" in multiple places in `evaluator.js`, and it also let's us avoid passing in an otherwise unnecessary `PDFManager` instance when creating a `PartialEvaluator`.
Please see the specification, https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf#M11.9.12864.1Heading.71.Viewer.Preferences
Furthermore, note that this patch *only* adds API support and unit-tests but does not attempt to integrate e.g. the `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` property into the viewer (which would be necessary to address issue 10736).
The reason for this is that it's not entirely clear to me exactly if/how that could be implemented; e.g. would it be as simple as setting the `dir` attribute on the `viewerContainer` DOM element, or will it be more complicated?
There's also the question of how the `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` value interacts with the `PageMode`, and this will generally require a fair bit of manual testing. Since the direction of the *entire* viewer depends on the browser locale, there's also a somewhat open question regarding what default value to use for different locales.
Finally, if the viewer supports `ViewerPreferences -> Direction` then I'm assuming that it will be necessary to allow users to override the default value, which will require (most likely) new `SecondaryToolbar` buttons and icons for those etc.
Hence this patch only lays the necessary foundation for eventually addressing issue 10736, but defers the actual implementation until later. (Time permitting, I'll try to look into the viewer part later.)
This transform resulted in an incorrectly positioned object when the
bounding box's upper-left corner did not start at (0,0), because
the translation was not reverted. This patch adds the missing transform.
The test file (tiling-pattern-box.pdf) is based on the PDF from #2825.
All but the first cube (including the PDF data) have been removed.
To trigger the bug that is fixed by this commit, I changed the BBox of
the first pattern from "[ 0 0 596 842]" to "[90 0 596 842]". Without
this patch, the dashed vertical line that intersects the corners at A
and E would disappear.
The new test file (tiling-pattern-large-steps.pdf) was manually created,
to have the following characteristics:
- Large xstep and ystep (90000)
- Page width is 4000 (which is larger than MAX_PATTERN_SIZE)
- Visually, the page consists of a red rectangle with a black border,
surrounded by a 50 unit white padding.
- Before patch: blurry; After patch: sharp
Fixes#6496Fixes#5698Fixes#1434Fixes#2825
Without this some fonts may incorrectly end up with matching `hash`es, thus breaking rendering since we'll not actually try to load/parse some of the fonts.
Currently if trying to set `disableRange=true` in the built-in PDF Viewer in Firefox, either through `about:config` or via the URL hash, the PDF document will never load. It appears that this has been broken for a couple of years, without anyone noticing.
Obviously it's not a good idea to set `disableRange=true`, however it seems that this bug affects the PDF Viewer in Firefox even with default settings:
- In the case where `initialData` already contains the *entire* file, we're forced to dispatch a range request to re-fetch already available data just so that file loading may complete.
- (In the case where the data arrives, via streaming, before being specifically requested through `requestDataRange`, we're also forced to re-fetch data unnecessarily.) *This part was removed, to reduce the scope/risk of the patch somewhat.*
In the cases outlined above, we're having to re-fetch already available data thus potentially delaying loading/rendering of PDF files in Firefox (and wasting resources in the process).
Support for the non-standard `moz-chunked-arraybuffer` response type is in the process of being removed from Firefox; see e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411865
For the time being, you probably want to keep support for this in the general PDF.js library given that feature detection is used. However, removing the unit-test immediately seems reasonable, since it will otherwise start failing once the platform support for `moz-chunked-arraybuffer` is gone.
Fixes 8851; please note that if unit-tests for the code in `fetch_stream.js` are wanted, which I'm assuming they are, those should live in their own file rather than being lumped into `network_spec.js` anyway.
Moreover, group the lexer unit tests per method. This matches what we
do for other classes and makes it more easily visible which methods
we don't or insufficiently unit test.
The parser itself is not unit tested yet, so this patch provides a start
for doing so. The `inlineStreamSkipEI` method is used in other end
marker detection methods, so it's important that its functionality is
correct for proper parsing.
Note how `PDFDocumentProxy.destroy` is a nothing more than an alias for `PDFDocumentLoadingTask.destroy`. While removing the latter method would be a breaking API change, there's still room for at least some clean-up here.
The main changes in this patch are:
- Stop providing a `PDFDocumentLoadingTask` instance *separately* when creating a `PDFDocumentProxy`, since the loadingTask is already available through the `WorkerTransport` instance.
- Stop tracking the `PDFDocumentProxy` instance on the `WorkerTransport`, since that property is completely unused.
- Simplify the 'Multiple `getDocument` instances' unit-tests by only destroying *once*, rather than twice, for each document.
For Type3 fonts text-selection is often not that great, and there's a couple of heuristics used to try and improve things. This patch simple extends those heuristics a bit, and fixes a pre-existing "naive" array comparison, but this all feels a bit brittle to say the least.
The existing Type3 test-coverage isn't that great in general, and in particular Type3 `text` tests are few and far between, hence why this patch adds *two* different new `text` tests.
The `DOMCanvasFactory` class is now fully covered. Moreover, missing
cases for the `getFilenameFromUrl` function have been included.
Finally, `var` usage has been removed.
The `src/shared/util.js` file is being bundled into both the `pdf.js` and `pdf.worker.js` files, meaning that its code is by definition duplicated.
Some main-thread only utility functions have already been moved to a separate `src/display/display_utils.js` file, and this patch simply extends that concept to utility functions which are used *only* on the worker-thread.
Note in particular the `getInheritableProperty` function, which expects a `Dict` as input and thus *cannot* possibly ever be used on the main-thread.
This file (currently) contains not only DOM-specific helper functions/classes, but is used generally for various helper code relevant for main-thread functionality.
*Hopefully this patch makes sense, since I cannot claim to fully understand this function.*
With the changes made in PR 3354 *some* Type3 glyph outlines are no longer rendering correctly, since the final paths were being accidentally ignored.
The fact that Type3 fonts are not very common in PDF documents, and that most Type3 glyphs are unaffected by this regression, probably explains why this has gone unnoticed since 2013.
There doesn't appear to be any particular reason for only running these unit-tests in browsers, since the `PDFDataRangeTransport` functionality itself should be back-end agnostic.
This allows simplification of the 'creates pdf doc from URL and aborts loading after worker initialized' API unit-test.
Note that the `DOMFileReaderFactory` uses the Fetch API, for simplicity, since it should be available in all browsers where we're running tests.
pdf.js had a problem when copying characters on supplementary planes
(0xPPXXXX where PP is nonzero). This is because certain methods of
PartialEvaluator use classic String.fromCharCode instead of ES6's
String.fromCodePoint.
Despite the fact that readToUnicode method *tried* to parse out-of-UCS2
code points by parsing UTF-16BE, it was inadequate because
String.fromCharCode only supports UCS-2 range of Unicode.
All objects in the PDF document follow this pattern:
```
0000000001 0 obj
<<
% Some content here...
>>
endobj
0000000002 0 obj
<<
% More content here...
endobj
```
In many cases in the code you don't actually care about the index itself, but rather just want to know if something exists in a String/Array or if a String starts in a particular way. With modern JavaScript functionality, it's thus possible to remove a number of existing `indexOf` cases.
This will allow the Metadata to be successfully extracted from the PDF file in issue 10395.
Furthermore, this patch also fixes a bug in `Metadata.get` which causes the method to return `null` rather than an empty string or zero (since either ought to be allowed).
Previously a couple of different attempts at fixing this problem has been rejected, given how *crucial* this code is for the correct function of the viewer, since no one has thus far provided any evidence that the problem actually affects the default viewer[1] nor an example using the viewer components directly (without another library on top).
The fact that none of the prior patches contained even a *simple* unit-test probably contributed to the unwillingness of a reviewer to sign off on the suggested changes.
However, it turns out that it's possible to create a reduced test-case, using the default viewer, that demonstrates the error[2]. Since this utilizes a hidden `<iframe>`, please note that this error will thus affect Firefox as well.
Note that while errors are thrown when the hidden `<iframe>` loads, the default viewer doesn't break completely since rendering does start working once the `<iframe>` becomes visible (although the errors do break the initial Toolbar state).
Before making any changes here, I carefully read through not just the immediately relevant code but also the rendering code in the viewer (given it's dependence on `getVisibleElements`). After concluding that the changes should be safe in general, the default viewer was tested without any issues found. (The above being much easier with significant prior experience of working with the viewer code.)
Finally the patch also adds new unit-tests, one of which explicitly triggers the relevant code-path and will thus fail with the current `master` branch.
This patch also makes `PDFViewerApplication` slightly more robust against errors during document opening, to ensure that viewer/document initialization always completes as expected.
Please keep in mind that even though this patch prevents an error in `getVisibleElements`, it's still not possible to set the initial position/zoom level/sidebar view etc. when the viewer is hidden since rendering and scrolling is completely dependent[3] on being able to actually access the DOM elements.
---
[1] And hence the PDF Viewer that's built-in to Firefox.
[2] Copy the HTML code below and save it as `iframe.html`, and place the file in the `web/` folder. Then start the server, with `gulp server`, and navigate to http://localhost:8888/web/iframe.html
```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Iframe test</title>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
const button = document.getElementById('button1');
const frame = document.getElementById('frame1');
button.addEventListener('click', function(evt) {
frame.hidden = !frame.hidden;
});
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button id="button1">Toggle iframe</button>
<br>
<iframe id="frame1" width="800" height="600" src="http://localhost:8888/web/viewer.html" hidden="true"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
```
[3] This is an old, pre-exisiting, issue that's not relevant to this patch as such (and it's already being tracked elsewhere).
The error was triggered for a particular set of metadata, where an end tag was encountered without the corresponding begin tag being present in the data.
(The patch also fixes a minor oversight, from a recent PR, in the `SimpleDOMNode.nextSibling` method.)
For PDF documents with sufficiently broken XRef tables, it's usually quite obvious when you need to fallback to indexing the entire file. However, for certain kinds of corrupted PDF documents the XRef table will, for all intents and purposes, appear to be valid. It's not until you actually try to fetch various objects that things will start to break, which is the case in the referenced issues[1].
Since there's generally a real effort being in made PDF.js to load even corrupt PDF documents, this patch contains a suggested approach to attempt to do a bit more validation of the XRef table during the initial document loading phase.
Here the choice is made to attempt to load the *first* page, as a basic sanity check of the validity of the XRef table. Please note that attempting to load a more-or-less arbitrarily chosen object without any context of what it's supposed to be isn't a very useful, which is why this particular choice was made.
Obviously, just because the first page can be loaded successfully that doesn't guarantee that the *entire* XRef table is valid, however if even the first page fails to load you can be reasonably sure that the document is *not* valid[2].
Even though this patch won't cause any significant increase in the amount of parsing required during initial loading of the document[3], it will require loading of more data upfront which thus delays the initial `getDocument` call.
Whether or not this is a problem depends very much on what you actually measure, please consider the following examples:
```javascript
console.time('first');
getDocument(...).promise.then((pdfDocument) => {
console.timeEnd('first');
});
console.time('second');
getDocument(...).promise.then((pdfDocument) => {
pdfDocument.getPage(1).then((pdfPage) => { // Note: the API uses `pageNumber >= 1`, the Worker uses `pageIndex >= 0`.
console.timeEnd('second');
});
});
```
The first case is pretty much guaranteed to show a small regression, however the second case won't be affected at all since the Worker caches the result of `getPage` calls. Again, please remember that the second case is what matters for the standard PDF.js use-case which is why I'm hoping that this patch is deemed acceptable.
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[1] In issue 7496, the problem is that the document is edited without the XRef table being correctly updated.
In issue 10326, the generator was sorting the XRef table according to the offsets rather than the objects.
[2] The idea of checking the first page in particular came from the "standard" use-case for the PDF.js library, i.e. the default viewer, where a failure to load the first page basically means that nothing will work; note how `{BaseViewer, PDFThumbnailViewer}.setDocument` depends completely on being able to fetch the *first* page.
[3] The only extra parsing is caused by, potentially, having to traverse *part* of the `Pages` tree to find the first page.
If, as PR 10368 suggests, more parameters should be added to `getViewport` I think that it would be a mistake to not change the signature *first* to avoid needlessly unwieldy call-sites.
To not break any existing code and third-party use-cases, this is obviously implemented with a deprecation warning *and* with a working fallback[1] for the old method signature.
---
[1] This is limited to `GENERIC` builds, which should be sufficient.
Note that the OpenAction dictionary may contain other information besides just a destination array, e.g. instructions for auto-printing[1].
Given first of all that an arbitrary `Dict` cannot be sent from the Worker (since cloning would fail), and second of all that the data obviously needs to be validated, this patch purposely only adds support for fetching a destination from the OpenAction entry[2].
---
[1] This information is, currently in PDF.js, being included through the `getJavaScript` API method.
[2] This significantly reduces the complexity of the implementation, which seems fine for now. If there's ever need for other kinds of OpenAction to be fetched, additional API methods could/should be implemented as necessary (could e.g. follow the `getOpenActionWhatever` naming scheme).
The custom entries, provided that they exist *and* that their types are safe to include, are exposed through a new `Custom` infoDict entry to clearly separate them from the standard ones.
Fixes 5970.
Fixes 10344.
Jasmine recommends to use the `configure` method on the environment
during boot. This commit makes the code correspond to how it's done in
Jasmine's default boot file. The options dropdown in the HTML reporter
now works again after these changes, because this broke in the upgrade
to Jasmine 3, and the unit tests are executed in a random order by
default, which is important to make sure the unit tests are
self-contained and don't depend on the result of another unit test.
This line in the annotation tests subtracts an array from a number. This is because `splice(-1, 1)` returns a one-element array, while `pop()` returns only the element itself.
*Please note:* I'm totally fine with this patch being rejected, and the issue closed as WONTFIX; however these changes should address the issue if that's desired.
From a conceptual point of view, reporting loading progress doesn't really make a lot of sense for PDF files opened by passing raw binary data directly to `getDocument` (since obviously *all* data was loaded).
This is compared to PDF files loaded via e.g. `XMLHttpRequest` or the Fetch API, where the entire PDF file isn't available from the start and knowing the loading progress makes total sense.
However I can certainly see why the current API could be considered inconsistent, which isn't great, since a registered `onProgress` callback will never be called for certain `getDocument` calls.
The simplest solution to this inconsistency thus seem to be to ensure that `onProgress` is always called when handling the `DataLoaded` message, since that will *always* be dispatched[1] from the worker-thread.
---
[1] Note that this isn't guaranteed to happen, since setting `disableAutoFetch = true` often prevents the *entire* file from ever loading. However, this isn't relevant for the issue at hand, and is a well-known consequence of using `disableAutoFetch = true`; note how the default viewer even has a specialized code-path for hiding the loadingBar.
*This patch is based on something that I noticed while working on PR 10126.*
The recent re-factoring of `PDFFindController` brought many improvements, among those the fact that access to `BaseViewer` is no longer required. However, with these changes there's one thing which now strikes me as not particularly user-friendly[1]: The fact that in order for searching to actually work, `PDFFindController.setDocument` must be called *and* a 'pagesinit' event must be dispatched (from somewhere).
For all other viewer components, calling the `setDocument` method[2] is enough in order for the component to actually be usable.
The `PDFFindController` thus stands out quite a bit, and it also becomes difficult to work with in any sort of custom implementation. For example: Imagine someone trying to use `PDFFindController` separately from the viewer[3], which *should* now be relatively simple given the re-factoring, and thus having to (somehow) figure out that they'll also need to manually dispatch a 'pagesinit' event for searching to work.
Note that the above even affects the unit-tests, where an out-of-place 'pagesinit' event is being used.
To attempt to address these problems, I'm thus suggesting that *only* `setDocument` should be used to indicate that searching may start. For the default viewer and/or the viewer components, `BaseViewer.setDocument` will now call `PDFFindController.setDocument` when the document is ready, thus requiring no outside configuration anymore[4]. For custom implementation, and the unit-tests, it's now as simple as just calling `PDFFindController.setDocument` to allow searching to start.
---
[1] I should have caught this during review of PR 10099, but unfortunately it's sometimes not until you actually work with the code in question that things like these become clear.
[2] Assuming, obviously, that the viewer component in question actually implements such a method :-)
[3] There's even a very recent issue, filed by someone trying to do just that.
[4] Short of providing a `PDFFindController` instance when creating a `BaseViewer` instance, of course.
This commit shows that we can now unit test the find controller and
that executing regular queries works. Note that this is only a first
step and not a complete suite of unit tests for all possible options
of the find controller.
While writing this unit test, I found two smaller issues that I
addressed directly. The first one is that in the previous find
controller refactoring I forgot to rename some occurrences of a now
private member variable. Fortunately this did not cause any bugs since
we did have a public getter and the fetched value may be changed by
reference, but it's nevertheless good to fix. The second issue is that
some entries in the `test/unit/clitests.json` file were not correct,
resulting in these tests not being executed on e.g., Travis CI.
As outlined in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282759 the internal Firefox name for the feature is `entireWord`, hence that name is used here as well for consistency (with "Whole words" being limited to the UI).
Given existing limitations of the PDF.js search functionality, e.g. the existing problems of searching across "new lines", there's some edge-cases where "Whole words" searching will ignore (valid) results.
However, considering that this is a pre-existing issue related to the way that the find controller joins text-content together, that shouldn't have to block this new feature in my opionion.
*Please note:* In order to enable this feature in the `MOZCENTRAL` version, a small follow-up patch for [PdfjsChromeUtils.jsm](https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/extensions/pdfjs/content/PdfjsChromeUtils.jsm) will be required once this has landed in `mozilla-central`.
There have been lots of problems with trying to map glyphs to their unicode
values. It's more reliable to just use the private use areas so the browser's
font renderer doesn't mess with the glyphs.
Using the private use area for all glyphs did highlight other issues that this
patch also had to fix:
* small private use area - Previously, only the BMP private use area was used
which can't map many glyphs. Now, the (much bigger) PUP 16 area can also be
used.
* glyph zero not shown - Browsers will not use the glyph from a font if it is
glyph id = 0. This issue was less prevalent when we mapped to unicode values
since the fallback font would be used. However, when using the private use
area, the glyph would not be drawn at all. This is illustrated in one of the
current test cases (issue #8234) where there's an "ä" glyph at position
zero. The PDF looked like it rendered correctly, but it was actually not
using the glyph from the font. To properly show the first glyph it is always
duplicated and appended to the glyphs and the maps are adjusted.
* supplementary characters - The private use area PUP 16 is 4 bytes, so
String.fromCodePoint must be used where we previously used
String.fromCharCode. This is actually an issue that should have been fixed
regardless of this patch.
* charset - Freetype fails to load fonts when the charset size doesn't match
number of glyphs in the font. We now write out a fake charset with the
correct length. This also brought up the issue that glyphs with seac/endchar
should only ever write a standard charset, but we now write a custom one.
To get around this the seac analysis is permanently enabled so those glyphs
are instead always drawn as two glyphs.
This patch is the first step to be able to eventually get rid of the `attachDOMEventsToEventBus` function, by allowing `EventBus` instances to simply re-dispatch most[1] events to the DOM.
Note that the re-dispatching is purposely implemented to occur *after* all registered `EventBus` listeners have been serviced, to prevent the ordering issues that necessitated the duplicated page/scale-change events.
The DOM events are currently necessary for the `mozilla-central` tests, see https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/extensions/pdfjs/test, and perhaps also for custom deployments of the PDF.js default viewer.
Once this have landed, and been successfully uplifted to `mozilla-central`, I intent to submit a patch to update the test-code to utilize the new preference. This will thus, eventually, make it possible to remove the `attachDOMEventsToEventBus` functionality.
*Please note:* I've successfully ran all `mozilla-central` tests locally, with these patches applied.
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[1] The exception being events that originated on the `window` or `document`, since those are already globally available anyway.