#include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include // This example shows you everything you need to know to implement a custom stream filter for // encoding and decoding as well as a stream data provider that modifies the stream's dictionary. // This example uses the pattern of having the stream data provider class use a second QPDF instance // with copies of streams from the original QPDF so that the stream data provider can access the // original stream data. This is implemented very efficiently inside the qpdf library as the second // QPDF instance knows how to read the stream data from the original input file, so no extra copies // of the original stream data are made. // This example creates an imaginary filter called /XORDecode. There is no such filter in PDF, so // the streams created by the example would not be usable by any PDF reader. However, the techniques // here would work if you were going to implement support for a filter that qpdf does not support // natively. For example, using the techniques shown here, it would be possible to create an // application that downsampled or re-encoded images or that re-compressed streams using a more // efficient "deflate" implementation than zlib. // Comments appear throughout the code describing each piece of code and its purpose. You can read // the file top to bottom, or you can start with main() and follow the flow. // Please also see the test suite, qtest/custom-filter.test, which contains additional comments // describing how to observe the results of running this example on test files that are specifically // crafted for it. static char const* whoami = nullptr; class Pl_XOR: public Pipeline { // This class implements a Pipeline for the made-up XOR decoder. It is initialized with a // single-byte "key" and just XORs each byte with that key. This makes it reversible, so there // is no distinction between encoding and decoding. public: Pl_XOR(char const* identifier, Pipeline* next, unsigned char key); ~Pl_XOR() override = default; void write(unsigned char const* data, size_t len) override; void finish() override; private: unsigned char key; }; Pl_XOR::Pl_XOR(char const* identifier, Pipeline* next, unsigned char key) : Pipeline(identifier, next), key(key) { } void Pl_XOR::write(unsigned char const* data, size_t len) { for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) { unsigned char p = data[i] ^ this->key; getNext()->write(&p, 1); } } void Pl_XOR::finish() { getNext()->finish(); } class SF_XORDecode: public QPDFStreamFilter { // This class implements a QPDFStreamFilter that knows how to validate and interpret decode // parameters (/DecodeParms) for the made-up /XORDecode stream filter. Since this is not a real // stream filter, no actual PDF reader would know how to interpret it. This is just to // illustrate how to create a stream filter. In main(), we call QPDF::registerStreamFilter to // tell the library about the filter. See comments in QPDFStreamFilter.hh for details on how to // implement the methods. For purposes of example, we are calling this a "specialized" // compression filter, which just means QPDF assumes that it should not "uncompress" the stream // by default. public: ~SF_XORDecode() override = default; bool setDecodeParms(QPDFObjectHandle decode_parms) override; Pipeline* getDecodePipeline(Pipeline* next) override; bool isSpecializedCompression() override; private: unsigned char key; // It is the responsibility of the QPDFStreamFilter implementation to ensure that the pipeline // returned by getDecodePipeline() is deleted when the class is deleted. The easiest way to do // this is to stash the pipeline in a std::shared_ptr, which enables us to use the default // destructor implementation. std::shared_ptr pipeline; }; bool SF_XORDecode::setDecodeParms(QPDFObjectHandle decode_parms) { // For purposes of example, we store the key in a separate stream. We could just as well store // the key directly in /DecodeParms, but this example uses a stream to illustrate how one might // do that. For example, if implementing /JBIG2Decode, one would need to handle the // /JBIG2Globals key, which points to a stream. See comments in SF_XORDecode::registerStream for // additional notes on this. try { // Expect /DecodeParms to be a dictionary with a /KeyStream key that points to a one-byte // stream whose single byte is the key. If we are successful at retrieving the key, return // true, indicating that we are able to process with the given decode parameters. Under any // other circumstances, return false. For other examples of QPDFStreamFilter // implementations, look at the classes whose names start with SF_ in the qpdf library // implementation. auto buf = decode_parms.getKey("/KeyStream").getStreamData(); if (buf->getSize() != 1) { return false; } this->key = buf->getBuffer()[0]; return true; } catch (std::exception& e) { std::cerr << "Error extracting key for /XORDecode: " << e.what() << std::endl; } return false; } Pipeline* SF_XORDecode::getDecodePipeline(Pipeline* next) { // Return a pipeline that the qpdf library should pass the stream data through. The pipeline // should receive encoded data and pass decoded data to "next". getDecodePipeline() can always // count on setDecodeParms() having been called first. The setDecodeParms() method should store // any parameters needed by the pipeline. To ensure that the pipeline we return disappears when // the class disappears, stash it in a std::shared_ptr and retrieve the raw pointer from // there. this->pipeline = std::make_shared("xor", next, this->key); return this->pipeline.get(); } bool SF_XORDecode::isSpecializedCompression() { // The default implementation of QPDFStreamFilter would return false, so if you want a // specialized or lossy compression filter, override one of the methods as described in // QPDFStreamFilter.hh. return true; } class StreamReplacer: public QPDFObjectHandle::StreamDataProvider { // This class implements a StreamDataProvider that, under specific conditions, replaces the // stream data with data encoded with the made-up /XORDecode filter. // The flow for this class is as follows: // // * The main application iterates through streams that should be replaced and calls // registerStream. registerStream in turn calls maybeReplace passing nullptr to pipeline and // the address of a valid QPDFObjectHandle to dict_updates. The stream passed in for this call // is the stream for the original QPDF object. It has not yet been altered, so we have access // to its original dictionary and data. As described in the method, the method when called in // this way makes a determination as to whether the stream should be replaced. If so, // registerStream makes whatever changes are required. We have to do this now because we can't // modify the stream during the writing process. // // * provideStreamData(), which is called by QPDFWriter during the write process, actually // writes the modified stream data. It calls maybeReplace again, but this time it passes a // valid pipeline and passes nullptr to dict_updates. In this mode, the stream dictionary has // already been altered, and the original stream data is no longer directly accessible. Trying // to retrieve the stream data would cause an infinite loop because it would just end up // calling provideStreamData again. This is why maybeReplace uses a stashed copy of the // original stream. // Additional explanation can be found in the method implementations. public: StreamReplacer(QPDF* pdf); ~StreamReplacer() override = default; void provideStreamData(QPDFObjGen const& og, Pipeline* pipeline) override; void registerStream( QPDFObjectHandle stream, std::shared_ptr self); private: bool maybeReplace( QPDFObjGen const& og, QPDFObjectHandle& stream, Pipeline* pipeline, QPDFObjectHandle* dict_updates); // Hang onto a reference to the QPDF object containing the streams we are replacing. We need // this to create a new stream. QPDF* pdf; // Map the object/generation in original file to the copied stream in "other". We use this to // retrieve the original data. std::map copied_streams; // Each stream gets is own "key" for the XOR filter. We use a single instance of StreamReplacer // for all streams, so stash all the keys here. std::map keys; }; StreamReplacer::StreamReplacer(QPDF* pdf) : pdf(pdf) { } bool StreamReplacer::maybeReplace( QPDFObjGen const& og, QPDFObjectHandle& stream, Pipeline* pipeline, QPDFObjectHandle* dict_updates) { // As described in the class comments, this method is called twice. Before writing has started // pipeline is nullptr, and dict_updates is provided. In this mode, we figure out whether we // should replace the stream and, if so, take care of the necessary setup. When we are actually // ready to supply the data, this method is called again with pipeline populated and // dict_updates as a nullptr. In this mode, we are not allowed to change anything, since writing // is already in progress. We must simply provide the stream data. // The return value indicates whether or not we should replace the stream. If the first call // returns false, there will be no second call. If the second call returns false, something went // wrong since the method should always make the same decision for a given stream. // For this example, all the determination logic could have appeared inside the if // (dict_updates) block rather than being duplicated, but in some cases, there may be a reason // to duplicate things. For example, if you wanted to write code that re-encoded an image if the // new encoding was more efficient, you'd have to actually try it out. Then you would either // have to cache the result somewhere or just repeat the calculations, depending on space/time // constraints, etc. // In our contrived example, we are replacing the data for all streams that have /DoXOR = true // in the stream dictionary. If this were a more realistic application, our criteria would be // more sensible. For example, an image downsampler might choose to replace a stream that // represented an image with a high pixel density. auto dict = stream.getDict(); auto mark = dict.getKey("/DoXOR"); if (!(mark.isBool() && mark.getBoolValue())) { return false; } // We can't replace the stream data if we can't get the original stream data for any reason. A // more realistic application may actually look at the data here as well, or it may be able to // make all its decisions from the stream dictionary. However, it's a good idea to make sure we // can retrieve the filtered data if we are going to need it later. std::shared_ptr out; try { out = stream.getStreamData(); } catch (...) { return false; } if (dict_updates) { // It's not safe to make any modifications to any objects during the writing process since // the updated objects may have already been written. In this mode, when dict_updates is // provided, we have not started writing. Store the modifications we intend to make to the // stream dictionary here. We're just storing /OrigLength for purposes of example. Again, a // realistic application would make other changes. For example, an image resampler might // change the dimensions or other properties of the image. dict_updates->replaceKey( "/OrigLength", QPDFObjectHandle::newInteger(QIntC::to_longlong(out->getSize()))); // We are also storing the "key" that we will access when writing the data. this->keys[og] = QIntC::to_uchar((og.getObj() * QIntC::to_int(out->getSize())) & 0xff); } if (pipeline) { unsigned char key = this->keys[og]; Pl_XOR p("xor", pipeline, key); p.write(out->getBuffer(), out->getSize()); p.finish(); } return true; } void StreamReplacer::registerStream( QPDFObjectHandle stream, std::shared_ptr self) { QPDFObjGen og(stream.getObjGen()); // We don't need to process a stream more than once. In this example, we are just iterating // through objects, but if we were doing something like iterating through images on pages, we // might realistically encounter the same stream more than once. if (this->copied_streams.count(og) > 0) { return; } // Store something in copied_streams so that we don't double-process even in the negative case. // This gets replaced later if needed. this->copied_streams[og] = QPDFObjectHandle::newNull(); // Call maybeReplace with dict_updates. In this mode, it determines whether we should replace // the stream data and, if so, supplies dictionary updates we should make. bool should_replace = false; QPDFObjectHandle dict_updates = QPDFObjectHandle::newDictionary(); try { should_replace = maybeReplace(og, stream, nullptr, &dict_updates); } catch (std::exception& e) { stream.warnIfPossible(std::string("exception while attempting to replace: ") + e.what()); } if (should_replace) { // Copy the stream so we can get to the original data from the stream data provider. This // doesn't actually copy any data, but the copy retains the original stream data after the // original one is modified. this->copied_streams[og] = stream.copyStream(); // Update the stream dictionary with any changes. auto dict = stream.getDict(); for (auto const& k: dict_updates.getKeys()) { dict.replaceKey(k, dict_updates.getKey(k)); } // Create the key stream that will be referenced from /DecodeParms. We have to do this now // since you can't modify or create objects during write. char p[1] = {static_cast(this->keys[og])}; std::string p_str(p, 1); QPDFObjectHandle dp_stream = this->pdf->newStream(p_str); // Create /DecodeParms as expected by our fictitious /XORDecode filter. QPDFObjectHandle decode_parms = QPDFObjectHandle::newDictionary({{"/KeyStream", dp_stream}}); stream.replaceStreamData(self, QPDFObjectHandle::newName("/XORDecode"), decode_parms); // Further, if /ProtectXOR = true, we disable filtering on write so that QPDFWriter will not // decode the stream even though we have registered a stream filter for /XORDecode. auto protect = dict.getKey("/ProtectXOR"); if (protect.isBool() && protect.getBoolValue()) { stream.setFilterOnWrite(false); } } } void StreamReplacer::provideStreamData(QPDFObjGen const& og, Pipeline* pipeline) { QPDFObjectHandle orig = this->copied_streams[og]; // call maybeReplace again, this time with the pipeline and no dict_updates. In this mode, // maybeReplace doesn't make any changes. We have to hand it the original stream data, which we // get from copied_streams. if (!maybeReplace(og, orig, pipeline, nullptr)) { // Since this only gets called for streams we already determined we are replacing, a false // return would indicate a logic error. throw std::logic_error("should_replace return false in provideStreamData"); } } static void process(char const* infilename, char const* outfilename, bool decode_specialized) { QPDF qpdf; qpdf.processFile(infilename); // Create a single StreamReplacer instance. The interface requires a std::shared_ptr in various // places, so allocate a StreamReplacer and stash it in a std::shared_ptr. auto* replacer = new StreamReplacer(&qpdf); std::shared_ptr p(replacer); for (auto& o: qpdf.getAllObjects()) { if (o.isStream()) { // Call registerStream for every stream. Only ones that registerStream decides to // replace will actually be replaced. replacer->registerStream(o, p); } } QPDFWriter w(qpdf, outfilename); if (decode_specialized) { w.setDecodeLevel(qpdf_dl_specialized); } // For the test suite, use static IDs. w.setStaticID(true); // for testing only w.write(); std::cout << whoami << ": new file written to " << outfilename << std::endl; } static void usage() { std::cerr << "\n" << "Usage: " << whoami << " [--decode-specialized] infile outfile\n" << std::endl; exit(2); } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { whoami = QUtil::getWhoami(argv[0]); char const* infilename = nullptr; char const* outfilename = nullptr; bool decode_specialized = false; for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) { if (strcmp(argv[i], "--decode-specialized") == 0) { decode_specialized = true; } else if (!infilename) { infilename = argv[i]; } else if (!outfilename) { outfilename = argv[i]; } else { usage(); } } if (!(infilename && outfilename)) { usage(); } try { // Register our fictitious filter. This enables QPDFWriter to decode our streams. This is // not a real filter, so no real PDF reading application would be able to interpret it. This // is just for illustrative purposes. QPDF::registerStreamFilter("/XORDecode", [] { return std::make_shared(); }); // Do the actual processing. process(infilename, outfilename, decode_specialized); } catch (std::exception& e) { std::cerr << whoami << ": exception: " << e.what() << std::endl; exit(2); } return 0; }