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M2: refresh CropBox text clipping against upstream main
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# Where PdfCraft falls short of Acrobat Pro
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (gap 12: reading order is scored, not just word F1) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (gap 14: Vietnamese catalog shipped; Hindi/Indonesian/Korean and Arabic RTL remain) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (gap 6: #1910 Organize Pages opens on the current page; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gap 6: #1398 stamps read upright on rotated pages; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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(#1398). Another batch keeps a spaced XFA radio value in the datasets (#1319), replaces only the
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selected pages when they are not adjacent (#1305), and leaves unrelated page streams in place
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when a figure is marked decorative (#1324). The rest of the backlog is untriaged.
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- **Fix verified (2026-10-14):** raw-deflate fallback returns a decoding-limit error instead of
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accepting an empty partial stream when a misleading zlib header triggers a retry. Synthetic
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filter and COS stream regressions cover refusal at the limit and decoding within it.
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- **Impact:** every one is a user who lost trust. Crash reports outrank feature work
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(`AGENTS.md` §4).
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- **Estimate:** 45–80 h (≈ 0.2–0.4 h per issue). **Doc:** this file.
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-10-15 | minor | Gap 12: the text oracle scores reading order as well as word F1, which is a bag of words and cannot see order; the first measurement separated 18 improvements from 6 regressions in a change F1 called unchanged on 26 of 29 files. Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-14 | minor | M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors in strict and tolerant decoding; synthetic filter and COS stream regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-15 | patch | Gap 24: record localization and installers as partial (unusable Chinese, Telugu and Arabic; unsigned Linux packages) |
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| 2026-10-13 | minor | Gap 6: Organize Pages selects and reveals the current page on open, including after an earlier grid selection elsewhere (#1910). Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 6: rubber stamps, explicit image rectangles and PDF-page stamps read upright on rotated pages (#1398). Estimates unchanged. |
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# PdfCraft roadmap: milestones and what's next
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M6: AcroForm XML text; estimates unchanged)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M6: preserve XML/XFDF attribute whitespace; refreshed upstream; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors; refreshed upstream; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M14: the Italian catalog has every entry the other catalogs had and the code looks up, 2,528 entries; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (M2/M6: spot-colour images convert once per pixel value; widget placement and the Fields panel scale with the field count; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M3 candidate: coordinate control clicks on slow frames and coalesced text selection; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
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| M | Milestone | Plan size (h) | Done | Remaining (h, 2026-10-10) | Notes |
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| M0 | Skeleton: workspace, xtask gates, CI | 15–30 | 98% | 1–2 | GitHub workflow, `deny.toml` (licence audit of every dependency), parity checklist (826 features, `xtask parity`) done. Missing: remaining crate stubs, testkit/oracle crates |
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| M1 | COS: filters, crypt, parser, xref, writer | 120–200 | 80% | 20–40 | Done:<br>- filters and crypt: every standard-security revision R2–R6 (RC4, AES-128/256), SASLprep, permissions, creating encryption;<br>- cos: parse and repair (including invalid xref object-number ranges), decoded-stream limits including unfiltered data, decrypt on load, re-encrypt on save, incremental and full writing.<br>Corpus: open/edit/save passes on 958 files, and all 7 password-protected files open.<br>Full saves now pack objects into compressed object streams. An unchanged incremental save of a classic table writes a zero-length cross-reference subsection instead of a section with no subsections (#1339). A full rewrite keeps unknown trailer entries, including objects reachable only from them (#1338). Fuzzing runs nightly (`xtask fuzz`). Missing: ≥ 250 tests, own image codecs |
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| M1 | COS: filters, crypt, parser, xref, writer | 120–200 | 80% | 20–40 | Done:<br>- filters and crypt: every standard-security revision R2–R6 (RC4, AES-128/256), SASLprep, permissions, creating encryption;<br>- cos: parse and repair (including invalid xref object-number ranges), decoded-stream limits including unfiltered data, decrypt on load, re-encrypt on save, incremental and full writing.<br>Corpus: open/edit/save passes on 958 files, and all 7 password-protected files open.<br>Full saves now pack objects into compressed object streams. An unchanged incremental save of a classic table writes a zero-length cross-reference subsection instead of a section with no subsections (#1339). A full rewrite keeps unknown trailer entries, including objects reachable only from them (#1338). Fuzzing runs nightly (`xtask fuzz`). Raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors, including through tolerant COS stream decoding. Refreshed against upstream `99941daa` (2026-10-15). Missing: ≥ 250 tests, own image codecs |
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| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings. Packed TIFF-predictor RGB rows retain later rows in decoding and rendering. Page marks, added content and print output retain small page-unit transform coefficients when serialized. |
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| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings. Packed TIFF-predictor RGB rows retain later rows in decoding and rendering. The renderer keeps its one-point crop-size floor in physical points after UserUnit scaling, with regression coverage for crop origins, rotations and f32 reciprocal rounding. Existing unit policy and nearly-zero fallback are retained. |
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| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings |
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| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). Selected-text Copy in Edit and the canvas context menu is covered by focused regressions and native clipboard checks (#1225); document copy restrictions apply to the floating action too. #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Page-label navigation displays logical labels, retains the current page on unchanged submission and refreshes focused same-document replacements; clean file-watcher reload preserves the chosen scrolling mode, preventing a Single Page reader from jumping to page 1 during replacement. Synthetic control regressions cover these behaviors.. OS-open regression waits for asynchronous tab creation before removing its fixture (PR #2838 CI). |
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| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). Selected-text Copy in Edit and the canvas context menu is covered by focused regressions and native clipboard checks (#1225); document copy restrictions apply to the floating action too. #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Page-label navigation displays logical labels, retains the current page on unchanged submission and refreshes focused same-document replacements; clean file-watcher reload preserves the chosen scrolling mode, preventing a Single Page reader from jumping to page 1 during replacement. Synthetic control regressions cover these behaviors. OS-open regression waits for asynchronous tab creation before removing its fixture (PR #2838 CI). |
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| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Later native-open replies stay queued while a modal or picker owns the foreground; regressions cover recipient ownership, completion/cancellation and one-shot wakes. |
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| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. #1980: exact quit modifiers preserve Ctrl+Alt+Q email input; Ctrl+Q/Cmd+Q asks before discarding unsaved documents. |
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| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation.<br>Candidate: coordinate control clicks pair press/release across slow frames; coalesced primary presses retain text multi-click selection. Regression cases cover slow-frame button activation, disabled controls and text multi-click selection; estimates unchanged. |
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| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web M4: Insert-from-file preserves source bookmarks; integration tests retained with current main. |
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| M5 | Comments (all annotation types, XFDF) | 120–200 | 88% | 12–25 | Done: notes, highlight/underline/strikeout/squiggly, text boxes, ink, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, stamps (dynamic, Sign Here, Standard Business), with appearance streams; replies, status, checkmarks, locking, move/resize/restyle/delete; properties dialog; panel filter and sort; hide all; summaries (comments only); XFDF/FDF import and export (partial imports preserve existing reply and review-status links); flatten; Fill & Sign with adjustable text/date size; agent tools.<br>Done since: stamps placed on a rotated page read upright (#1398); polygons, connected lines, clouds, callouts, inserted text, colour and checkmark filters; image signature pointer previews, selection handles and live image movement/resizing with proportional corners and independent edge handles. Missing: custom stamps, replace-text proposals, summary layouts with the page |
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| M5 | Comments (all annotation types, XFDF) | 120–200 | 88% | 12–25 | Done: notes, highlight/underline/strikeout/squiggly, text boxes, ink, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, stamps (dynamic, Sign Here, Standard Business), with appearance streams; replies, status, checkmarks, locking, move/resize/restyle/delete; properties dialog; panel filter and sort; hide all; summaries (comments only); XFDF/FDF import and export (partial imports preserve existing reply and review-status links); flatten; Fill & Sign with adjustable text/date size; agent tools.<br>Done since: polygons, connected lines, clouds, callouts, inserted text, colour and checkmark filters; image signature pointer previews, selection handles and live image movement/resizing with proportional corners and independent edge handles. A refused restyle or resize of a text box another program drew leaves that comment unchanged (#1327). Make Current Properties Default on an arrow updates arrows, not plain lines (#1302). Flattening keeps a visible comment it cannot draw (#1317). Missing: custom stamps, replace-text proposals, summary layouts with the page |
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| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
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| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
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| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. XML/XFDF exports preserve tabs and line breaks in names and comment metadata. Refreshed against upstream `99941daa` (2026-10-15).<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
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| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Done since: Edit text preserves Arabic/Hebrew `/ActualText` typing order, with font-independent regressions; single-glyph RTL ligature spans (including lam-alef) join their surrounding word. Done since (#1116): editable text regions grouped across compatible words and subset fonts, one rich-text editor over a background with the source text removed, embedded sfnt faces reused as editor faces, and visible (clipped) bounds for cropped-image selection and resize. Exclusive crops now resize across nested states and content streams, with shared clips fixed.<br>Done since: #594 ordinary paragraph drags preserve overlapping source text; UI/engine regressions, native save/reopen, independent-reader checks and full CI passed in the Linux test environment. #1200 candidate: local GoToR links open in desktop tabs and through root-confined automation; appearance-only edits preserve existing actions. Named destinations remain unapplied and `/NewWindow` is a tab hint. Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), image/PDF watermarks |
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| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Done since: Edit text preserves Arabic/Hebrew `/ActualText` typing order, with font-independent regressions. Done since (#1116): editable text regions grouped across compatible words and subset fonts, one rich-text editor over a background with the source text removed, embedded sfnt faces reused as editor faces, and visible (clipped) bounds for cropped-image selection and resize. Exclusive crops now resize across nested states and content streams, with shared clips fixed.<br>Done since: #594 ordinary paragraph drags preserve overlapping source text; UI/engine regressions, native save/reopen, independent-reader checks and full CI passed in the Linux test environment. #1200 candidate: local GoToR links open in desktop tabs and through root-confined automation; appearance-only edits preserve existing actions. Named destinations remain unapplied and `/NewWindow` is a tab hint. #1316: replacing a line or paragraph keeps a neighbouring line whose glyph box overlaps when the baselines differ; a second copy on the same baseline is still replaced. Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), image/PDF watermarks |
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| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), watermark print/screen visibility and repeat |
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| 2026-10-15 | minor | M6: Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references. Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-13 | minor | M6: XML/XFDF attribute whitespace survives form and comment export/import; estimates unchanged |
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| 2026-10-14 | minor | M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors in strict and tolerant decoding; synthetic filter and COS stream regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-15 | minor | M9 #1895: generic appearance rewriting deferred; separate validation overlays preserve original artwork, exports and printing. Baked captions remain unchanged (#79 open). Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: valid AcroForm XML element names with original PDF field names preserved; saved-PDF collision and Unicode regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
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| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: preserve carriage returns in exported CSV field names and values; saved-PDF round-trip coverage. Estimates unchanged. |
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