In order to minimize the size the of a saved pdf, we generate only one
image and use a reference in each annotation using it.
When printing, it's slightly different since we have to render each page
independantly but we use the same image within a page.
After PR 12563 we're now free to use optional chaining in the worker-thread as well. (This patch also fixes one previously "missed" case in the `web/` folder.)
For the MOZCENTRAL build-target this patch reduces the total bundle-size by `1.6` kilobytes.
On my computer, it takes few tenths of a second to load a local font.
Since a font can be used several times in a document, the cache will
improve performances.
Some arabic chars like \ufe94 could be searched in a pdf, hence it must be normalized
when creating the search query. So to avoid to duplicate the normalization code,
everything is moved in the find controller.
The previous code to normalize text was using NFKC but with a hardcoded map, hence it
has been replaced by the use of normalize("NFKC") (it helps to reduce the bundle size
by 30kb).
In playing with this \ufe94 char, I noticed that the bidi algorithm wasn't taking into
account some RTL unicode ranges, the generated font wasn't embedding the mapping this
char and the unicode ranges in the OS/2 table weren't up-to-date.
When normalized some chars can be replaced by several ones and it induced to have
some extra chars in the text layer. To avoid any regression, when copying some text
from the text layer, a copied string is normalized (NFKC) before being put in the
clipboard (it works like this in either Acrobat or Chrome).
This *special* build-target is very old, and was introduced with the first pre-processor that only uses comments to enable/disable code.
When the new pre-processor was added `PRODUCTION` effectively became redundant, at least in JavaScript code, since `typeof PDFJSDev === "undefined"` checks now do the same thing.
This patch proposes that we remove `PRODUCTION` from the JavaScript code, since that simplifies the conditions and thus improves readability in many cases.
*Please note:* There's not, nor has there ever been, any gulp-task that set `PRODUCTION = false` during building.
*Please note:* This parameter has never been used within the PDF.js library/viewer itself, and it was only ever added for backwards compatibility reasons.
This parameter was added in PR 7475, over six years ago, to try and optionally maintain the previous *default* text-extraction behaviour.
However as part of the general text-extraction improvements in PR 13257, almost two years ago, the `disableCombineTextItems` functionality was accidentally "broken" in various ways. Note how the only (very basic) unit-test was updated in a way that doesn't really make sense, since generally speaking you'd expect that using the option should result in *more* (or at least the same number of) text-items. Furthermore there's also the recent issue 16209, where the option causes almost all textContent to be concatenated together.
Hence this patch proposes that we simply remove the `disableCombineTextItems` option since it's essentially unused/untested functionality, as evident from the fact that it took almost two years for someone to notice that it's broken.
With the previous commit this is now completely unused in API, hence it can be removed. This is done in a separate commit to make it easier to re-instate it, would the need ever arise.
This was deprecated in PR 15758, which has now been included in three official PDF.js releases.
While PR 15880 did limit the bundle-size impact of this functionality on e.g. the Firefox PDF Viewer, it still leads to some unnecessary "bloat" that these changes remove.
Furthermore, with this being deprecated there'd also be no effort put into e.g. extending the `UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES` list when handling future error cases.
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.
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.
*Please note:* I don't really expect that this is will be an observable change, since virtually all PDF documents already order e.g. /MediaBox and /CropBox entries correctly.
By normalizing boundingBoxes already on the worker-thread, we can be sure that even a corrupt document won't cause issues.
Note how we're passing the `view`-getter to the `PartialEvaluator.getTextContent` method, in order to detect textContent which is outside of the page, hence it makes sense to ensure that it's formatted as expected.
Furthermore, by normalizing this once on the worker-tread we should no longer have to worry about a possibly negative width/height in the `PageViewport` constructor.
Finally, the patch also simplifies the `view`-getter a little bit.
Part of this is very old code, and back when support for parsing the catalog-version was added things became less clear (in my opinion).
Hence this patch tries to improve things, by e.g. validating the header- and catalog-version separately.
Note how after having found the "%PDF-" prefix we then read both the prefix and the version in the loop, only to then remove the prefix at the end.
It seems better to instead advance the stream position past the "%PDF-" prefix, and then read only the version data.
Finally the loop-condition can also be simplified slightly, to further clean-up some very old code.
*Fixes a regression from PR 15246, sorry about that!*
The return value of all `Annotation.getOperatorList` methods was changed in PR 15246, however I missed updating the error code-path in `Page.getOperatorList` which thus breaks all operatorList-parsing for pages with corrupt Annotations.
By doing this in the worker-thread this code will only need to run *once*, whereas currently re-rendering of a page forces this to be repeated (e.g. after it's been scrolled out-of-view and then back into view again).
An annotation doesn't have to be in the text flow, hence it's likely a bad idea
to insert its text in the text layer. But the text must be visible from a screen
reader point of view so it must somewhere in the DOM.
So with this patch, the text from a FreeText annotation is extracted and added in
a div in its HTML counterpart, and with the patch #15237 the text should be visible
and positioned relatively to the text flow.
To improve performance of the sidebar we use the page-canvases to generate the thumbnails whenever possible, since that avoids unnecessary re-rendering when the sidebar is open. This works generally well, however there's an old problem in PDF documents that contain interactive forms (when those are enabled): Note how the thumbnails become partially (or fully) blank, since those Annotations are not included in the OperatorList.[1]
We obviously want to keep using the `PDFThumbnailView.setImage`-method for most documents, however we need a way to skip it only for those pages that contain interactive forms.
As it turns out it's unfortunately not all that simple to tell, after the fact, from looking only at the OperatorList that some Annotations were skipped. While it might have been possible to try and infer that in the viewer, it'd not have been pretty considering that at the time when rendering finishes the annotationLayer has not yet been built.
The overall simplest solution that I could come up with, was instead to include a *summary* of the interactive form-state when doing the final "flushing" of the OperatorList and expose that information in the API.
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[1] Some examples from our test-suite: `annotation-tx2.pdf` where the thumbnail is completely blank, and `bug1737260.pdf` where the thumbnail is missing the "buttons" found on the page.
- the annotations must be rendered in the same order as the chronological one.
- fix a bug in document.js which avoids to read a saved pdf correctly in Acrobat:
there is no need to reset the xref state: it's done in worker.js once everything
has been saved.
- Let the `Page.save`-method filter out "empty" entries, similar to the `Page._parsedAnnotations`-getter, since that on its own already simplifies the "SaveDocument"-handler a tiny bit.
- The existing `reduce` and `concat` construction isn't exactly a wonder of readability :-)
Thanks to modern JavaScript features it should be possible to replace all of this with `Array.prototype.flat()` instead, which at least to me feels a lot easier to understand.
After the changes in PR 14998, these operators are now no-ops in the `src/display/canvas.js` code and should no longer be necessary.
Given that `beginAnnotations`/`endAnnotations` are not in the PDF specification, but are rather *custom* PDF.js operators, it seems reasonable to stop using them now that they've become no-ops.
- it aims to fix#14685;
- add a basic object to get values from the parsed datasets;
- these annotations don't have an appearance so we must create one when printing or saving.
Originally the code in the `src/`-folder was shared between the main/worker-threads, and back then it probably made sense that the `PDFDocument` constructor accepted different arguments.
However, for many years we've not been passing anything *except* Streams to `PDFDocument` and we should thus be able to slightly simplify that code. Note that for e.g. unit-tests of this code, using either a `NullStream` or a `StringStream` works just fine.
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.
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.
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.