[poppler] Changed renderings due to Annot/Form changes

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun Apr 3 04:56:05 PDT 2011


A Diumenge, 3 d'abril de 2011, Carlos Garcia Campos va escriure:
> Excerpts from Carlos Garcia Campos's message of dom mar 27 18:28:44 +0200 
2011:
> > Excerpts from Carlos Garcia Campos's message of dom mar 27 12:44:56 +0200 
2011:
> [snip]
> 
> > > I've just fixed it in git master, I was ignoring the NeedAppearances
> > > entry in AcroForm dict for some cases. It fixes the regression and
> > > improves the output, but it still doesn't look like acroread.
> > 
> > I think the document is buggy, I'm not sure why it works in acroread
> > though, see:
> > 
> > 13 0 obj
> > << /Type /Annot /Subtype /Widget /Rect [0 0 0 0] /T (radioquestion)
> > /FT /Btn /Ff 49152 /Kids [ 15 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] /V /2 >>
> > endobj
> > 
> > And we render both annots correctly, but there's a field
> > referenced in the Annots array but not in AcroForms nor kids array of
> > any form field:
> > 
> > 14 0 obj
> > <</Type /Annot /Subtype /Widget /Rect [42.52 633.35 55.02 645.85] /FT
> > /Btn /Contents (þÿ^@r^@a^@d^@i^@o^@q^@u^@e^@s^@t^@i^@o^@n) /P 26 0 R
> > /NM (0001-0002) /M (D:20110323184058+01'00') /F 4 /AS /Off /AP << /N
> > << /1 35 0 R /Off 36 0 R >> >> /BS << /Type /Border /W 1 /S /I >> /MK
> > 
> > >> << /BC [ 0.50 0.50 0.50] /BG [ 1.00 1.00 1.00] /CA (l) /IF << /A
> > >> [0.50 0.50]>> /TP 0>> /Parent 13 0 R /Ff 49152 /DA (/F3 10.00 Tf
> > >> 0.000 0.000 0.000 rg)>>
> > 
> > endobj
> > 
> > Since it doesn't have a field associated we simply draw the AP, that's
> > the first radio button you can see it's rendered wrongly. I think the
> > document is wrong and the first object should contain 14, 15 and 16 as
> > kids instead of 15, 15, 16.
> > 
> > I've also noticed that there are other documents failing now, because
> > they have a radio button field whose children are composed field +
> > annot dicts containing a DA. In that case we fail to generate the
> > appearance stream because we can't find the DA in the radio button
> > field, we are assuming the children of a radio button field is an
> > annotation, and we ignore any other entries in the dictionary. For
> > example:
> > 
> > 5 0 obj
> > <</FT/Btn
> > /P 1 0 R
> > /Kids[6 0 R 8 0 R 9 0 R ]
> > /T(OptionButton)
> > /TU<FEFF>
> > /Ff 32768
> > /V /1
> > /DV /1
> > 
> > endobj
> > 
> > This is the radio button, it doesn't have a DA, but look at one of the
> > children:
> > 
> > 6 0 obj
> > <</Type/Annot/Subtype/Widget/F 4
> > /Rect[237.7 765.7 248 775.6]
> > /FT/Btn
> > /P 1 0 R
> > /Parent 5 0 R
> > /TU<FEFF>
> > /DR<</Font<</ZaDb 18 0 R/HelvReg 17 0 R>>>>
> > /DA(0 0 0 rg /ZaDb 0 Tf)
> > /MK<</CA(l)>>
> > /AP<<
> > /N<< /1 22 0 R /Off 23 0 R>>
> > 
> > /AS /1
> > 
> > endobj
> > 
> > It's a composed dict (field + annot) but we are assuming that form
> > fields having children that look like annotation dicts are terminal
> > fields, so we create a widget from this annot, but we ignore all other
> > entries, like DA in this case. Without the DA we fail to create an
> > appearance stream for the widget annotation.
> > 
> > I'm working on this already, but I'm afraid it will take some time,
> > since I have to re-think the way we build the fields tree. We are also
> > ignoring container fields (non-terminal fields that have non-terminal
> > children).
> 
> I've just pushed a patch to fix these issues, it works for all
> documents I have, if you find any problem, please let me know.

pdfinfo crashes in a broken document i have around. I'll send it to you.

Albert

> 
> Thanks,


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