The PDF spec allows incremental changes of a document by appending a
new XRef table and file trailer to it. These will only contain the
changed objects and will point back to the previous change, forming an
arbitrarily long chain of XRef sections and file trailers.
Every one of those XRef sections may be encoded as an XRef stream as
well, in which case the trailer is part of the stream dictionary as
usual. To make this easier, I made it so every XRef table may "own" a
trailer. This means that the main file trailer is now part of the main
XRef table.
This will make it easier to support both string types at the same time
while we convert code, and tracking down remaining uses.
One big exception is Value::to_string() in LibJS, where the name is
dictated by the ToString AO.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
An XRef table usually starts with an object number of zero. While it
could technically start at any other number, this is a tell-tale sign
of a broken table.
For the "broken" documents I encountered, this always meant that some
objects must have been removed from the start of the table, without
updating the following indices. When this is the case, the document is
not able to be read normally.
However, most other PDF parsers seem to know of this quirk and fix the
XRef table automatically.
Likewise, we now check for this exact case, and if it matches up with
what we expect, we update the XRef table such that all object numbers
match the actual objects found in the file again.
This remained undetected for a long time as HeaderCheck is disabled by
default. This commit makes the following file compile again:
// file: compile_me.cpp
#include <LibDNS/Question.h>
// That's it, this was enough to cause a compilation error.
Likewise for most other files touched by this commit.
Since PDF version 1.5, a document may omit the xref table in favor of
a new kind of xref stream object. This is used to reference so-called
"compressed" objects that are part of an object stream.
With this patch we are able to parse this new kind of xref object, but
we'll have to implement object streams to use them correctly.
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
This isn't a complete conversion to ErrorOr<void>, but a good chunk.
The end goal here is to propagate buffer allocation failures to the
caller, and allow the use of TRY() with formatting functions.
This is a big step, as most PDFs which are downloaded online will be
linearized. Pretty much the only difference is that the xref structure
is slightly different.
This commit adds a parser as well as the Reader class, which serves
as a utility to aid in reading the PDF both forwards and in reverse.
The parser currently is capable of reading xref tables, as well as
all values. We don't really do anything with any of this information,
however.
