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TODO: rescope some items
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@ -21,31 +21,15 @@ Pending changes:
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appimage build specifically is setting the runpath, which is
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actually desirable in this case. Make sure to understand and
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document this. Maybe add a check for it in the build.
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* Decide what to do about #664 (get*Box)
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* Add an option --ignore-encryption to ignore encryption information
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and treat encrypted files as if they weren't encrypted. This should
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make it possible to solve #598 (--show-encryption without a
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password). We'll need to make sure we don't try to filter any
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streams in this mode. Ideally we should be able to combine this with
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--json so we can look at the raw encrypted strings and streams if we
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want to, though be sure to document that the resulting JSON won't be
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convertible back to a valid PDF. Since providing the password may
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reveal additional details, --show-encryption could potentially retry
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with this option if the first time doesn't work. Then, with the file
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open, we can read the encryption dictionary normally.
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* In libtests, separate executables that need the object library
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from those that strictly use public API. Move as many of the test
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drivers from the qpdf directory into the latter category as long
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as doing so isn't too troublesome from a coverage standpoint.
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* Consider adding fuzzer code for JSON
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* Consider generating a non-flat pages tree before creating output to
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better handle files with lots of pages. If there are more than 256
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pages, add a second layer with the second layer nodes having no more
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than 256 nodes and being as evenly sizes as possible. Don't worry
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about the case of more than 65,536 pages. If the top node has more
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than 256 children, we'll live with it.
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Parent pointer idea:
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Soon: Break ground on "Document-level work"
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Fix Multiple Direct Object Owner Issue
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======================================
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These are some ideas I've had, but I'm parking them until I fully
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understand m-holger's proposal to split QPDFObject into QPDFObject and
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QPDFValue.
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* Add std::weak_ptr<QPDFObject> parent to QPDFObject. When adding a
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direct object to an array or dictionary, set its parent. When
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@ -65,8 +49,6 @@ Note that arrays and dictionaries still need to contain
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QPDFObjectHandle because of indirect objects. This only pertains to
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direct objects, which are always "resolved" in QPDFObjectHandle.
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Soon: Break ground on "Document-level work"
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Possible future JSON enhancements
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=================================
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@ -376,169 +358,196 @@ directory or that are otherwise not publicly accessible. This includes
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things sent to me by email that are specifically not public. Even so,
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I find it useful to make reference to them in this list.
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* Look at https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en
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* Add an option --ignore-encryption to ignore encryption information
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and treat encrypted files as if they weren't encrypted. This should
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make it possible to solve #598 (--show-encryption without a
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password). We'll need to make sure we don't try to filter any
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streams in this mode. Ideally we should be able to combine this with
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--json so we can look at the raw encrypted strings and streams if we
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want to, though be sure to document that the resulting JSON won't be
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convertible back to a valid PDF. Since providing the password may
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reveal additional details, --show-encryption could potentially retry
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with this option if the first time doesn't work. Then, with the file
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open, we can read the encryption dictionary normally.
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* Rework tests so that nothing is written into the source directory.
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Ideally then the entire build could be done with a read-only
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source tree.
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* In libtests, separate executables that need the object library
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from those that strictly use public API. Move as many of the test
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drivers from the qpdf directory into the latter category as long
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as doing so isn't too troublesome from a coverage standpoint.
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* Large file tests fail with linux32 before and after cmake. This was
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first noticed after 10.6.3. I don't think it's worth fixing.
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* Consider generating a non-flat pages tree before creating output to
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better handle files with lots of pages. If there are more than 256
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pages, add a second layer with the second layer nodes having no more
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than 256 nodes and being as evenly sizes as possible. Don't worry
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about the case of more than 65,536 pages. If the top node has more
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than 256 children, we'll live with it. This is only safe if all
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intermediate page nodes have only /Kids, /Parent, /Type, and /Count.
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* Consider updating the fuzzer with code that exercises
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copyAnnotations, file attachments, and name and number trees. Check
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fuzzer coverage.
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* Look at https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en
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* Add code for creation of a file attachment annotation. It should
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also be possible to create a widget annotation and a form field.
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Update the pdf-attach-file.cc example with new APIs when ready.
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* Consider adding fuzzer code for JSON
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* Flattening of form XObjects seems like something that would be
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useful in the library. We are seeing more cases of completely valid
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PDF files with form XObjects that cause problems in other software.
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Flattening of form XObjects could be a useful way to work around
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those issues or to prepare files for additional processing, making
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it possible for users of the qpdf library to not be concerned about
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form XObjects. This could be done recursively; i.e., we could have a
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method to embed a form XObject into whatever contains it, whether
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that is a form XObject or a page. This would require more
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significant interpretation of the content stream. We would need a
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test file in which the placement of the form XObject has to be in
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the right place, e.g., the form XObject partially obscures earlier
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code and is partially obscured by later code. Keys in the resource
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dictionary may need to be changed -- create test cases with lots of
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duplicated/overlapping keys.
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* Rework tests so that nothing is written into the source directory.
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Ideally then the entire build could be done with a read-only
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source tree.
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* Part of closed_file_input_source.cc is disabled on Windows because
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of odd failures. It might be worth investigating so we can fully
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exercise this in the test suite. That said, ClosedFileInputSource
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is exercised elsewhere in qpdf's test suite, so this is not that
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pressing.
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* Large file tests fail with linux32 before and after cmake. This was
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first noticed after 10.6.3. I don't think it's worth fixing.
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* If possible, consider adding CCITT3, CCITT4, or any other easy
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filters. For some reference code that we probably can't use but may
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be handy anyway, see
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http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/sdk/index_archive.html
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* Consider updating the fuzzer with code that exercises
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copyAnnotations, file attachments, and name and number trees. Check
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fuzzer coverage.
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* If possible, support the following types of broken files:
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* Add code for creation of a file attachment annotation. It should
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also be possible to create a widget annotation and a form field.
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Update the pdf-attach-file.cc example with new APIs when ready.
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- Files that have no whitespace token after "endobj" such that
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endobj collides with the start of the next object
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* Flattening of form XObjects seems like something that would be
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useful in the library. We are seeing more cases of completely valid
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PDF files with form XObjects that cause problems in other software.
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Flattening of form XObjects could be a useful way to work around
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those issues or to prepare files for additional processing, making
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it possible for users of the qpdf library to not be concerned about
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form XObjects. This could be done recursively; i.e., we could have a
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method to embed a form XObject into whatever contains it, whether
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that is a form XObject or a page. This would require more
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significant interpretation of the content stream. We would need a
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test file in which the placement of the form XObject has to be in
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the right place, e.g., the form XObject partially obscures earlier
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code and is partially obscured by later code. Keys in the resource
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dictionary may need to be changed -- create test cases with lots of
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duplicated/overlapping keys.
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- See ../misc/broken-files
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* Part of closed_file_input_source.cc is disabled on Windows because
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of odd failures. It might be worth investigating so we can fully
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exercise this in the test suite. That said, ClosedFileInputSource
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is exercised elsewhere in qpdf's test suite, so this is not that
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pressing.
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- See ../misc/bad-files-issue-476. This directory contains a
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snapshot of the google doc and linked PDF files from issue #476.
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Please see the issue for details.
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* If possible, consider adding CCITT3, CCITT4, or any other easy
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filters. For some reference code that we probably can't use but may
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be handy anyway, see
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http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/sdk/index_archive.html
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* Additional form features
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* set value from CLI? Specify title, and provide way to
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disambiguate, probably by giving objgen of field
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* If possible, support the following types of broken files:
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* Pl_TIFFPredictor is pretty slow.
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- Files that have no whitespace token after "endobj" such that
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endobj collides with the start of the next object
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* Support for handling file names with Unicode characters in Windows
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is incomplete. qpdf seems to support them okay from a functionality
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standpoint, and the right thing happens if you pass in UTF-8
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encoded filenames to QPDF library routines in Windows (they are
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converted internally to wchar_t*), but file names are encoded in
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UTF-8 on output, which doesn't produce nice error messages or
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output on Windows in some cases.
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- See ../misc/broken-files
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* If we ever wanted to do anything more with character encoding, see
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../misc/character-encoding/, which includes machine-readable dump
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of table D.2 in the ISO-32000 PDF spec. This shows the mapping
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between Unicode, StandardEncoding, WinAnsiEncoding,
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MacRomanEncoding, and PDFDocEncoding.
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- See ../misc/bad-files-issue-476. This directory contains a
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snapshot of the google doc and linked PDF files from issue #476.
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Please see the issue for details.
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* Some test cases on bad files fail because qpdf is unable to find
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the root dictionary when it fails to read the trailer. Recovery
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could find the root dictionary and even the info dictionary in
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other ways. In particular, issue-202.pdf can be opened by evince,
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and there's no real reason that qpdf couldn't be made to be able to
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recover that file as well.
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* Additional form features
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* set value from CLI? Specify title, and provide way to
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disambiguate, probably by giving objgen of field
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* Audit every place where qpdf allocates memory to see whether there
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are cases where malicious inputs could cause qpdf to attempt to
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grab very large amounts of memory. Certainly there are cases like
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this, such as if a very highly compressed, very large image stream
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is requested in a buffer. Hopefully normal input to output
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filtering doesn't ever try to do this. QPDFWriter should be checked
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carefully too. See also bugs/private/from-email-663916/
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* Pl_TIFFPredictor is pretty slow.
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* Interactive form modification:
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https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/213 contains a good discussion
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of some ideas for adding methods to modify annotations and form
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fields if we want to make it easier to support modifications to
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interactive forms. Some of the ideas have been implemented, and
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some of the probably never will be implemented, but it's worth a
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read if there is an intention to work on this. In the issue, search
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for "Regarding write functionality", and read that comment and the
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responses to it.
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* Support for handling file names with Unicode characters in Windows
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is incomplete. qpdf seems to support them okay from a functionality
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standpoint, and the right thing happens if you pass in UTF-8
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encoded filenames to QPDF library routines in Windows (they are
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converted internally to wchar_t*), but file names are encoded in
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UTF-8 on output, which doesn't produce nice error messages or
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output on Windows in some cases.
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* Look at ~/Q/pdf-collection/forms-from-appian/
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* If we ever wanted to do anything more with character encoding, see
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../misc/character-encoding/, which includes machine-readable dump
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of table D.2 in the ISO-32000 PDF spec. This shows the mapping
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between Unicode, StandardEncoding, WinAnsiEncoding,
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MacRomanEncoding, and PDFDocEncoding.
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* When decrypting files with /R=6, hash_V5 is called more than once
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with the same inputs. Caching the results or refactoring to reduce
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the number of identical calls could improve performance for
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workloads that involve processing large numbers of small files.
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* Some test cases on bad files fail because qpdf is unable to find
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the root dictionary when it fails to read the trailer. Recovery
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could find the root dictionary and even the info dictionary in
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other ways. In particular, issue-202.pdf can be opened by evince,
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and there's no real reason that qpdf couldn't be made to be able to
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recover that file as well.
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* Consider adding a method to balance the pages tree. It would call
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pushInheritedAttributesToPage, construct a pages tree from scratch,
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and replace the /Pages key of the root dictionary with the new
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tree.
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* Audit every place where qpdf allocates memory to see whether there
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are cases where malicious inputs could cause qpdf to attempt to
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grab very large amounts of memory. Certainly there are cases like
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this, such as if a very highly compressed, very large image stream
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is requested in a buffer. Hopefully normal input to output
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filtering doesn't ever try to do this. QPDFWriter should be checked
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carefully too. See also bugs/private/from-email-663916/
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* Study what's required to support savable forms that can be saved by
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Adobe Reader. Does this require actually signing the document with
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an Adobe private key? Search for "Digital signatures" in the PDF
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spec, and look at ~/Q/pdf-collection/form-with-full-save.pdf, which
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came from Adobe's example site. See also
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../misc/digital-sign-from-trueroad/. If digital signatures are
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implemented, update the docs on crypto providers, which mention
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that this may happen in the future.
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* Interactive form modification:
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https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/213 contains a good discussion
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of some ideas for adding methods to modify annotations and form
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fields if we want to make it easier to support modifications to
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interactive forms. Some of the ideas have been implemented, and
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some of the probably never will be implemented, but it's worth a
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read if there is an intention to work on this. In the issue, search
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for "Regarding write functionality", and read that comment and the
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responses to it.
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* Qpdf does not honor /EFF when adding new file attachments. When it
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encrypts, it never generates streams with explicit crypt filters.
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Prior to 10.2, there was an incorrect attempt to treat /EFF as a
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default value for decrypting file attachment streams, but it is not
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supposed to mean that. Instead, it is intended for conforming
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writers to obey this when adding new attachments. Qpdf is not a
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conforming writer in that respect.
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* Look at ~/Q/pdf-collection/forms-from-appian/
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* The whole xref handling code in the QPDF object allows the same
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object with more than one generation to coexist, but a lot of logic
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assumes this isn't the case. Anything that creates mappings only
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with the object number and not the generation is this way,
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including most of the interaction between QPDFWriter and QPDF. If
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we wanted to allow the same object with more than one generation to
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coexist, which I'm not sure is allowed, we could fix this by
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changing xref_table. Alternatively, we could detect and disallow
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that case. In fact, it appears that Adobe reader and other PDF
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viewing software silently ignores objects of this type, so this is
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probably not a big deal.
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* When decrypting files with /R=6, hash_V5 is called more than once
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with the same inputs. Caching the results or refactoring to reduce
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the number of identical calls could improve performance for
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workloads that involve processing large numbers of small files.
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* From a suggestion in bug 3152169, consider having an option to
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re-encode inline images with an ASCII encoding.
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* Consider adding a method to balance the pages tree. It would call
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pushInheritedAttributesToPage, construct a pages tree from scratch,
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and replace the /Pages key of the root dictionary with the new
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tree.
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* From github issue 2, provide more in-depth output for examining
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hint stream contents. Consider adding on option to provide a
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human-readable dump of linearization hint tables. This should
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include improving the 'overflow reading bit stream' message as
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reported in issue #2. There are multiple calls to stopOnError in
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the linearization checking code. Ideally, these should not
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terminate checking. It would require re-acquiring an understanding
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of all that code to make the checks more robust. In particular,
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it's hard to look at the code and quickly determine what is a true
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logic error and what could happen because of malformed user input.
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See also ../misc/linearization-errors.
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* Study what's required to support savable forms that can be saved by
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Adobe Reader. Does this require actually signing the document with
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an Adobe private key? Search for "Digital signatures" in the PDF
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spec, and look at ~/Q/pdf-collection/form-with-full-save.pdf, which
|
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came from Adobe's example site. See also
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../misc/digital-sign-from-trueroad/. If digital signatures are
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implemented, update the docs on crypto providers, which mention
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that this may happen in the future.
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* If I ever decide to make appearance stream-generation aware of
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fonts or font metrics, see email from Tobias with Message-ID
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<5C3C9C6C.8000102@thax.hardliners.org> dated 2019-01-14.
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* Qpdf does not honor /EFF when adding new file attachments. When it
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encrypts, it never generates streams with explicit crypt filters.
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Prior to 10.2, there was an incorrect attempt to treat /EFF as a
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default value for decrypting file attachment streams, but it is not
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supposed to mean that. Instead, it is intended for conforming
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writers to obey this when adding new attachments. Qpdf is not a
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conforming writer in that respect.
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* Look at places in the code where object traversal is being done and,
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where possible, try to avoid it entirely or at least avoid ever
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traversing the same objects multiple times.
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* The whole xref handling code in the QPDF object allows the same
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object with more than one generation to coexist, but a lot of logic
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assumes this isn't the case. Anything that creates mappings only
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with the object number and not the generation is this way,
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including most of the interaction between QPDFWriter and QPDF. If
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we wanted to allow the same object with more than one generation to
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coexist, which I'm not sure is allowed, we could fix this by
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changing xref_table. Alternatively, we could detect and disallow
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that case. In fact, it appears that Adobe reader and other PDF
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viewing software silently ignores objects of this type, so this is
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probably not a big deal.
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* From a suggestion in bug 3152169, consider having an option to
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re-encode inline images with an ASCII encoding.
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* From github issue 2, provide more in-depth output for examining
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hint stream contents. Consider adding on option to provide a
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human-readable dump of linearization hint tables. This should
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include improving the 'overflow reading bit stream' message as
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reported in issue #2. There are multiple calls to stopOnError in
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the linearization checking code. Ideally, these should not
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terminate checking. It would require re-acquiring an understanding
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of all that code to make the checks more robust. In particular,
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it's hard to look at the code and quickly determine what is a true
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logic error and what could happen because of malformed user input.
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See also ../misc/linearization-errors.
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* If I ever decide to make appearance stream-generation aware of
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fonts or font metrics, see email from Tobias with Message-ID
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<5C3C9C6C.8000102@thax.hardliners.org> dated 2019-01-14.
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* Look at places in the code where object traversal is being done and,
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where possible, try to avoid it entirely or at least avoid ever
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traversing the same objects multiple times.
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