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PDF.js v2.1.266 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-02-16 // about 5 years ago

  • 🔄 Changes since v2.0.943:

    #10187 Bump versions in pdfjs.config
    #10188 Hide the beta version button on the website if there is only a stable version
    #10162 Normalize BBox of form XObjects in SVG back-end
    #10185 Reduce the number of redundant text normalization operations in PDFFindController
    #10182 Small clean-up of the search related methods in TextLayerBuilder
    #10184 Ensure that matches are not scrolled into after the findbar has been closed (PR 10100 follow-up)
    #10196 [Regression] Ensure that "Highlight All" is propagated to all pages for 'findagain' events where the findbar was previously closed (PR 10100 follow-up)
    #10190 Add a helper method for _getVisiblePages, in BaseViewer, for the case where only a single page is displayed in the viewer
    ⚡️ #10201 Reduce the number of redundant updatetextlayermatches events dispatched when calculating matches in PDFFindController
    #10203 Change canvasInRendering to a WeakSet instead of a WeakMap
    🚚 #10096 Remove the attachDOMEventsToEventBus functionality, since EventBus instances are able to re-dispatch events to the DOM (PR 10019, bug 1492849 follow-up)
    ⏪ #10202 Attempt to clean-up/restore pending rendering operations on RenderTask.cancel (issue 10200)
    #10217 For repeated 'findagain' operations, attempt to reset the search position if the user has e.g. scrolled in the document (issue 4141)
    📜 #10219 Convert src/core/ps_parser.js to use ES6 classes
    #10228 Don't detect nw.js as node.js
    #10233 [api-minor] Convert PDFObjects, in src/display/api.js, to an ES6 class
    🚚 #10238 Move the interface definitions out of src/core/worker.js and into their own file
    ⚡️ #10245 Update BaseViewer.scrollPageIntoView to always validate the pageNumber parameter
    #10223 When the search query changes, regardless of the search command, always re-calculate matches (bug 1030622)
    #10220 Only scroll search results into view as a result of an actual find operation, and not when the user scrolls/zooms/rotates the document (bug 1237076, issue 6746)
    #10231 Stop scrolling the document when "Highlight All" is toggled in the findbar (issue 5561)
    #10244 Fix webpack example
    #10255 Avoid unnecessary PDFFindController.scrollMatchIntoView calls in TextLayerBuilder._renderMatches when highlightAll is set (PR 10201 follow-up)
    #10256 Attempt to tweak the error messages, in BaseViewer, for invalid pageNumbers/pageLabels (bug 1505824)
    ⚡️ #10264 Update translations and packages
    #10197 Use span instead of div in the text layer
    #10246 Convert the remaining code in src/display/api.js to use ES6 classes
    #10274 Fallback to an exhaustive search, in corrupt PDF files, for NameTrees/NumberTrees that are not correctly ordered (issue 10272)
    👕 #10294 Add ESLint plugin import to be warned against invalid paths
    #10292 Replace uglify-es with Terser
    ⬆️ #10293 Upgrade to Babel 7
    #10275 Fix NameOrNumberTree.get to actually perform a binary search to find the requested key
    ⚡️ #10299 Update packages and translations
    ⚡️ #10300 Include forgotten changes after Wintersmith update
    🏗 #10318 In GENERIC builds, dispatch a "webviewerloaded" event (from the webViewerLoad function) before initializing the viewer
    🚚 #10322 Remove unuseful variable
    ✅ #10323 Test the code as-is, in Node.js/Travis, rather than its Babel translated version
    👍 #10340 Tweak the PDFHistory._tryPushCurrentPosition method to work better with the different Scroll/Spread viewer modes
    #10330 Handle line width of zero in SVG
    #10304 Add protection against directory traversal attacks
    ⚡️ #10295 Update eslint-plugin-mozilla to 1.0.1
    👕 #10337 Turn on ESLint in examples
    #10351 Attempt to ignore mouse wheel zooming during tab switches (bug 1503412)
    👍 #10350 Ignore the fieldValue for Signature annotations, since they're currently unsupported (issue 10374)
    ✅ #10354 Disable source-map generation when running tests
    #10356 Use high DPI icons on semi-high DPI screens.
    #10358 Add keyboard shortcut to toggle sidebar (F4, same as Adobe Reader).
    ⬆️ #10266 Upgrade to Gulp 4
    #10363 Fix small visual quirk in thumbnail viewer
    📇 #10346 [api-minor] Add support, in getMetadata, for custom information dictionary entries (issue 5970, issue 10344)
    #10369 [api-minor] Change the getViewport method, on PDFPageProxy, to take a parameter object rather than a bunch of (randomly) ordered parameters
    ⚡️ #10375 Update translations and packages
    👍 #10334 [api-minor] Add support for OpenAction destinations (issue 10332)
    ⚡️ #10378 Update remaining examples, and docs, to utilize current API functionality (issue 10377)
    #10376 Convert src/core/chunked_stream.js to ES6 syntax
    #10392 Check that the first page can be successfully loaded, to try and ascertain the validity of the XRef table (issue 7496, issue 10326)
    ⚡️ #10394 Optimize the Ref class in src/core/primitives.js
    #10393 Convert src/core/document.js to ES6 syntax
    #10396 Optimizations to avoid intermediate string creation
    💅 #10397 Ensure that AnnotationBorderStyle.setWidth is able to handle the input being a Name, to correctly deal with corrupt PDF documents (issue 10385)
    #10398 Prevent errors in various methods in SimpleDOMNode when the childNodes property is not defined (issue 10395)
    #10277 Repair CFF fonts if stem hints are in wrong order
    🚚 #10404 Remove the for ... of loop from the PDFDocument.fingerprint getter (issue 10401)
    #10399 migrate to canvas 2.x api
    💅 #10411 Adjust how AnnotationBorderStyle.setWidth handles the input being a Name (issue 10385)
    📜 #10408 Prevent errors, because of incorrect scope, in the XMLParserBase._resolveEntities method (issue 10407)
    📜 #10412 Prevent errors, in SimpleXMLParser.onEndElement, when the stack has already been completely parsed (issue 10410)
    #10417 Fix reading number of HTMX metrics.
    📚 #10420 Update translations/packages and improve documentation
    #10421 Switch to HTTPS for the license link on the website
    #10422 Convert more files in src/core to ES6 syntax
    🖨 #10424 Accept non-matching document fingerprints, in PDFHistory, when the viewer is reloaded (issue 6847)
    ⚡️ #10423 Add support for updating the document hash, off by default, when the browser history is updated (issue 5753)
    #10441 Handle more cases of corrupt PDF files with missing 'endobj' operators, where the "obj" string is immediately followed by the dictionary (PR 9288 follow-up)
    #10436 Avoid truncating inline images, where the data and the "EI" marker is glued together (issue 10388)
    ✅ #10425 Write more unit tests for the find controller
    🚚 #10444 Remove left-over console log from the find controller unit tests
    #10447 Handle malformed URIs as bad requests in the development webserver
    #10443 Prevent TypeError: views[index] is undefined being throw in getVisibleElements when the viewer, or all pages, are hidden
    #10462 Tweak the DOMTokenList.toggle polyfill (issue 10460)
    ⚡️ #10461 Avoid setting incorrect document URLs, in IE 11, when the browser history is updated (PR 10423 follow-up)
    📇 #10457 When parsing Metadata, attempt to remove "junk" before the first tag (PR 10398 follow-up)
    🔨 #10466 Move/refactor the code in the BaseViewer.update method to reduce duplication in the extending classes
    #10467 Convert some usage of indexOf to startsWith/includes where applicable
    📇 #10471 Implement a unit test for metadata parsing to ensure that it's not vulnerable to the billion laughs attack
    🏗 #10470 Try to, completely, avoid loading the ReadableStream polyfill in MOZCENTRAL builds
    🚚 #10473 Add an Array.from polyfill, using core-js, and remove some compatibility hacks from the src/display/content_disposition.js file
    ⚡️ #10474 Update translations and packages
    #10480 [Regression] Fix the FontInspector in the PDFBug debugging tools
    ⚡️ #10483 Update the mobile-viewer example to use the new PDFHistory.initialize format (PR 10423 follow-up)
    🏗 #10484 Stop bundling the ReadableStream polyfill in MOZCENTRAL builds (PR 10470 follow-up)
    #10492 Ensure that XRef.indexObjects can handle object numbers with zero-padding (issue 10491)
    #10482 Implement Decode entry in Indexed images
    0️⃣ #10494 Reduce unnecessary duplication of the isDefaultDecode methods on ColorSpace instances
    👕 #10489 Move more code/methods into BaseViewer, and simplify the PDFSinglePageViewer._scrollIntoView method slightly
    #10501 In getVisibleElements, check firstVisibleElementInd rather than numViews before backtracking (PR 10443 follow-up)
    ⏪ #10499 Attempt to clean-up/restore pending rendering operations when errors occurs while a RenderTask runs (PR 10202 follow-up)
    👕 #10504 Enable the no-useless-catch ESLint rule
    #10508 Do the final text scaling correctly in flushTextContentItem (issue 8276)
    #10515 Add a settled property, tracking the fulfilled/rejected stated of the Promise, to createPromiseCapability
    🚚 #10517 [api-minor] Remove the document.currentScript polyfill
    0️⃣ #10502 Modify a number of the viewer preferences, whose current default value is 0, such that they behave as expected with the view history
    #10525 Convert more code to use classList.toggle with the force parameter
    🚚 #10527 Add a polyfill for classList.{add, remove} with more than one parameter
    #10532 Bump base version and version prefix in pdfjs.config
    #10533 Bump the version number in pdfjs.config
    🚀 #10534 Try to hack-around the broken pdfjs-dist links, such that they will point to the main library releases (issue 10391)
    #10530 Fix copying on supplementary plane characters
    #10545 Undo the pdfjs.config version bumps
    ✅ #10537 Improve unit test coverage
    #10540 [Chrome extension] Add missing "type" entry for the viewOnLoad preference in the preferences_schema.json file (PR 10502 follow-up)
    #10539 [api-minor] Fallback to the built-in font renderer when font loading fails