The Compat Font Format specification (Adobe's Technical Note #5176) is
used by PDF's Type1C fonts to store their data. While being similar in
spirit to PS1 Type 1 Font Programs, it was designed for a more compact
representation and thus space reduction (but an increment on
complexity). It also shares most of the charstring encoding logic, which
is why the CFF class also inherits from Type1FontProgram.
This initial implementation is still lacking many details, e.g.:
* It doesn't include all the built-in CFF SIDs
* It doesn't support CFF-provided SIDs (defaults those glyphs to the
space character)
* More checks in general
We are planning to add support for CFF fonts to read Type1 fonts, and
therefore much of the logic already found in PS1FontProgram will be
useful for representing the Type1 fonts read from CFF.
This commit moves the PS1-independent bits of PS1FontProgram into a new
Type1FontProgram base class that can be used as the base for CFF-based
Type1 fonts in the future. The Type1Font class uses this new type now
instead of storing a PS1FontProgram pointer. While doing this
refactoring I also took care of making some minor adjustments to the
PS1FontProgram API, namely:
* Its create() method is static and returns a
NonnullRefPtr<Type1FontProgram>.
* Many (all?) of the parse_* methods are now static.
* Added const where possible.
Notably, the Type1FontProgram also contains at the moment the code that
parses the CharString data from the PS1 program. This logic is very
similar in CFF files, so after some minor adjustments later on it should
be possible to reuse most of it.
Interpolation is needed in more than one place, and I couldn't find a
central place where I could borrow a readily available interpolation
routine, so I've implemented the first simple interpolation object. More
will follow for more complex scenarios.
Otherwise, we end up propagating those dependencies into targets that
link against that library, which creates unnecessary link-time
dependencies.
Also included are changes to readd now missing dependencies to tools
that actually need them.
Even though the toolchain implicitly links against -lc, it does not know
where it should get LibC from except for the sysroot. In the case of
Clang this causes it to pick up the LibC stub instead, which might be
slightly outdated and feature missing symbols.
This is currently not an issue that manifests because we pass through
the dependency on LibC and other libraries by accident, which causes
CMake to link against the LibC target (instead of just the library),
and thus points the linker at the build output directory.
Since we are looking to fix that in the upcoming commits, let's make
sure that everything will still be able to find the proper LibC first.
Previously we would draw all text, no matter what font type, as
Liberation Serif, which results in things like ugly character spacing.
We now have partial support for drawing Type 1 glyphs, which are part of
a PostScript font program. We completely ignore hinting for now, which
results in ugly looking characters at low resolutions, but gain support
for a large number of typefaces, including most of the default fonts
used in TeX.
The Parser class is now a generic PDF object parser, of which the new
DocumentParser class derives. DocumentParser now takes over all
functions relating to linearization, pages, xref and trailer handling.
This allows the use of multiple parsers in the same document's
context, which will be needed in order to handle PDF object streams.
Security handlers manage encryption and decription of PDF files. The
standard security handler uses RC4/MD5 to perform its crypto (AES as
well, but that is not yet implemented).
Old situation:
Object.h defines Object
Object.h defines ArrayObject
ArrayObject requires the definition of Object
ArrayObject requires the definition of Value
Value.h defines Value
Value requires the definition of Object
Therefore, a file with the single line "#include <Value.h>" used to
raise compilation errors; certainly not something that one might expect
from a library.
This patch splits up the definitions in Object.h to break the cycle.
Now, Object.h only defines Object, Value.h still only defines Value (and
includes Object.h), and the new header ObjectDerivatives.h defines
ArrayObject (and includes both Object.h and Value.h).
Strings can be encoded in either UTF16-BE or UTF8. In either case,
there are a few initial bytes which specify the encoding that must
be checked and also removed from the final string.
This commit also splits up StreamObject into PlainTextStreamObject and
EncodedStreamObject, which is essentially just a stream object which
does not own its bytes vs one which does.
This commit adds the Renderer class, which is responsible for rendering
a page into a Gfx::Bitmap. There are many improvements to make here,
but this is a great start!
This commit introduces the ability to parse the document catalog dict,
as well as the page tree and individual pages. Pages obviously aren't
fully parsed, as we won't care about most of the fields until we
start actually rendering PDFs.
One of the primary benefits of the PDF format is laziness. PDFs are
not meant to be parsed all at once, and the same is true for pages.
When a Document is constructed, it builds a map of page number to
object index, but it does not fetch and parse any of the pages. A page
is only parsed when a caller requests that particular page (and is
cached going forwards).
Additionally, this commit also adds an object_cast function which
logs bad casts if DEBUG_PDF is set. Additionally, utility functions
were added to ArrayObject and DictObject to get all types of objects
from the collections to avoid having to manually cast.
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.
This commit is the start of LibPDF, and introduces some basic structure
objects. This emulates LibJS's Value structure, where Value is a simple
class that can contain a pointer to a more complex Object class with
more data. All of the basic PDF objects have a representation.
