When the `TIFF_DEBUG` flag is set, the TIFF decoder logs every tag and
their values. This is already useful but require the developer to have
the spec handy in order to decrypt each value to its signification. None
of this information is available at runtime, but this is known by the
Python generator. So by generating these debug logs, we drastically
increase their value.
As a bonus point, most of these functions should be useful when we will
display image's metadata in Serenity.
Let's make the "read a sample" part independent of the decoder. That
will soon allow us to read samples based on the image's parameter
without duplicating the code for every decoder.
This change limits the amount of memory that is initially allocated for
the color table. This prevents an OOM condition if the file contains an
incorrect color table size.
This change doesn't change much on its own. The idea behind this
refactoring is to separate the sample reading from the decoding step.
The decoder returning data byte per byte was fine as we only support
8 bits images, but this assumption won't hold for a long time. So let's
decode everything beforehand and strictly partition the sample reading
code somewhere else.
This tag type is a bit different as even if it fits in the general
definition given in the TIFF specification. That is the value will be of
one specified type multiplied by a known count. Having a
`Vector<Variant<u8, ...>>` will be very painful to use. So let's deviate
a bit from the normal way and use a `ByteBuffer` directly instead this
complicated type.
This will allow us to generate code that handle and provide easy access
to metadata stored in TIFF's tags. The generator is a Python script, and
it output both TIFFMetadata.h and TIFFTagHandler.cpp files.
The generator will definitely need some update to support all TIFF and
EXIF tags, but that will still be easier than writing everything
ourselves.
Some small modifications are needed in TIFFLoader.cpp to make it
compatible with the new `Metadata` class.
This is a hack: Ideally we'd have a CMYK Bitmap pixel format,
and we'd convert to rgb at blit time. Then we could also apply color
profiles (which for CMYK images are CMYK-based).
Also, the colors for our CMYK->RGB conversion are off for PDFs,
and we have distinct codepaths for this in Gfx::Color (for paths)
and JPEGs. So when we fix that, we'll have to fix it in two places.
But this doesn't require a lot of code and it's a huge visual
progression, so let's go with it for now.
Increases code reuse between encoder and decoder a tiny bit.
No behavior change.
(We should use the vectorized version in the future! But first,
we should learn to do the prediction in-place.)
The differencing predictor is a different way to encode pixels in TIFF
images. Every pixel is encoded as a difference with the previous column
of the image, except the first column, obviously.
This parameter is materialized by a new tag for which reading was also
implemented.
