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**Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~25% (ready for real work 50% → 75%) and ~400–700 h away
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-17 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (M8, gap 6 #2662: the redaction audit counts a cover over one word of a long line; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M2/gap 12: the Annex D.2 alias codes read as the ink they draw in both tables; the text oracle scores reading order; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **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; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M3 #2080 candidate: explicit search jumps join per-tab history; rail and control-channel Back/Forward; estimates unchanged)
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ Ranked; detail and the full milestone table in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md
| 8 | 1.0 polish: performance, right-to-left, missing languages, keyboard-only (M14) | 55–95 |
## Progress log
+- **2026-10-17 (M8, gap 6, #2662):** A filled cover over a long line counts when it hides half of any one word, not only 40% of the line's words or box, so a black box over one number in a long line — or an unapplied redaction mark over it — no longer audits clean while the number is still extractable; a sliver under half of every word it touches and under 40% of the line is still not flagged. Issue #2662, fixed by #2698, with the parity evidence updated. Estimates unchanged.
- **2026-10-15 (M2, gap 12):** `cargo xtask text-oracle` scores reading order as well as word F1: the longest common subsequence of the two word sequences over the longer one. F1 is a bag of words and cannot see order at all -- measuring #2431, a change that moves text and nothing else, it called 26 of the 29 files whose output changed identical, where the order score separated 18 improvements from 6 regressions. Reports, does not gate; a disagreement with Poppler, not a verdict. Estimates unchanged.
- **2026-10-15 (M2, #2305 follow-up):** WinAnsiEncoding 0xA0 and 0xAD and MacRomanEncoding 0xCA extract as the ordinary space and hyphen Annex D.2 names them, in the vendored hayro tables (patch 30) as well as `crates/fonts`, so search, copy and redaction see characters that were hidden behind U+00A0 and U+00AD. Across the pdf.js corpus the soft hyphens we extract fall 117 to 13 and the non-breaking spaces 30 to 26; the rest come from `/ToUnicode`. An explicit `/Differences` name keeps its glyph list value, as pdftotext does. Estimates unchanged.
- **2026-10-13 (community, M3, #1569 review):** Pixel-only Wayland wheel, wheel-tilt and continuous input use standalone moved events, so Ctrl zoom does not remain latched after the modifier is released (#991); vendored winit patch (13), with a policy test. Estimates unchanged.
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# Where PdfCraft falls short of Acrobat Pro
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-17 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (gap 6: #2662 redaction audit counts a cover over one word of a long line; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **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)
> **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)
> **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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read, selected and scrolled into view (#1910). Stamps placed on a rotated page read upright
(#1398). Another batch keeps a spaced XFA radio value in the datasets (#1319), replaces only the
selected pages when they are not adjacent (#1305), and leaves unrelated page streams in place
- when a figure is marked decorative (#1324). The rest of the backlog is untriaged.
+ when a figure is marked decorative (#1324). A black box over one word of a long line, and an
+ unapplied redaction mark over it, audit as a cover instead of a clean bill (#2662). The rest of
+ the backlog is untriaged.
- **Impact:** every one is a user who lost trust. Crash reports outrank feature work
(`AGENTS.md` §4).
- **Estimate:** 45–80 h (≈ 0.2–0.4 h per issue). **Doc:** this file.
@@ -378,6 +381,7 @@ update the numbers.
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-17 | minor | Gap 6: the redaction audit counts a cover over one word of a long line instead of a clean bill (#2662, fixed by #2698). Estimates unchanged. |
| 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. |
| 2026-10-15 | patch | Gap 24: record localization and installers as partial (unusable Chinese, Telugu and Arabic; unsigned Linux packages) |
| 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. |
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
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# PdfCraft roadmap: milestones and what's next
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-17 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (M8, gap 6 #2662: the redaction audit counts a cover over one word of a long line; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **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)
> **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)
> **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)
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ total matches the parity estimate.
| 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.
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
Done since: Existing simple field-font encodings and Differences are respected when generating appearances; an unencodable value uses a separate Helvetica appearance font without changing the source font. Synthetic reopen regressions cover punctuation, subset fallback and multiline text. Exact font metrics/layout and broader Unicode fallback remain incomplete. |
| 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.
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
Done since: Tab and Shift-Tab wrapping to the same field or another widget of that field refresh the newly opened editor from the accepted value before Save. Synthetic UI regressions cover both directions, same-frame Save, validation refusal and undo/redo. |
| 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), image/PDF watermarks |
-| M8 | Security + redaction | 100–180 | 68% | 15–30 | Done: opening protected documents, permissions, Protect Using Password, Remove security; redaction (mark text/areas/pages, Search & Redact with patterns, apply removing glyphs, image pixels, vectors, XObject content, annotations and fields, verification, full rewrite on save); Remove hidden information and Sanitize.
Done since: redaction codes (U.S. FOIA and Privacy Act sets as overlay text, in Redaction properties and `redact_mark`). Redaction cleans indirect and form structure references, preserving surviving form tags. Redaction retires inherited resource dictionaries, so a parent `/Pages` can't keep a removed XObject reachable; unredacted pages are left untouched. Image redaction removes alternate images and unsupported masks only on affected images. Missing: certificate security, custom redaction code sets and pattern locales, DCT re-encoding |
+| M8 | Security + redaction | 100–180 | 68% | 15–30 | Done: opening protected documents, permissions, Protect Using Password, Remove security; redaction (mark text/areas/pages, Search & Redact with patterns, apply removing glyphs, image pixels, vectors, XObject content, annotations and fields, verification, full rewrite on save); Remove hidden information and Sanitize.
Done since: redaction codes (U.S. FOIA and Privacy Act sets as overlay text, in Redaction properties and `redact_mark`). Redaction cleans indirect and form structure references, preserving surviving form tags. Redaction retires inherited resource dictionaries, so a parent `/Pages` can't keep a removed XObject reachable; unredacted pages are left untouched. Image redaction removes alternate images and unsupported masks only on affected images. The redaction audit counts a filled cover that hides half of any one word of a long line (#2662), applied or not. Missing: certificate security, custom redaction code sets and pattern locales, DCT re-encoding |
| M9 | Signatures (PAdES, validation) | 160–280 | 60% | 40–70 | Done: new `sign` crate (DER, X.509, CMS, PKCS #12 on RustCrypto; aws-lc-rs for RSA private keys); PAdES B-B signing (visible, invisible, existing fields, certification with DocMDP); validation with trust store and changes-after-signing classification; self-signed digital IDs; Signatures panel, message bar, sign dialogs; agent tools. Checked with pdfsig and OpenSSL.
Done since: macOS Keychain and Windows Current User Personal store signing (software-backed CNG keys), certificate viewer, signed documents protected from rewrites, page validation overlays separate from original signature artwork (baked Not Verified captions remain; #79 open), snapshot tabs that reuse instead of multiplying. Missing: timestamps (B-T), LTV (DSS, OCSP, CRL), FieldMDP, smart cards, PKCS #11 |
| M10 | OCR, create, export, print | 200–350 | 33% | 120–215 | Done: create from blank/text/PNG/JPEG/TIFF (multi-page)/GIF/BMP; export PNG/JPEG/TIFF and text; Print (Acrobat's sizing, n-up, booklet, poster, comments & forms, preview, the CUPS and Windows spoolers, print-ready PDF).
Done since: embedded/72/custom DPI choices for image imports; export all images; OCR (searchable image for pages, ranges and multiple files); single-sided cut-and-stack imposition with cut marks, through Print and doc_print; architectural/ANSI/large ISO sheet presets, Match page at 100% and PDF-scale preview (#599 follow-up); Create PDF from multiple files (PDFs, images and text, edited as pages in the grid); OCR can also read pictures on pages that have text, without adding that text twice (#1028). Done since: Word invoice export uses borderless inferred tables, floating positioned text/artwork only where text overlaps an image or is rotated, and per-page sizes, covered by synthetic invoice automation regressions (#773); printing on the web through the browser's print dialog, sheets drawn by PdfCraft (gap 4). Missing: OCR languages beyond Latin, editable-text OCR output, full Office layout fidelity/import |
| M11 | Optimize, preflight, PDF/A/X/UA, print production | 200–350 | 18% | 80–140 | Done: new `optimize` crate: Reduce File Size and the PDF Optimizer (images measured where drawn, bicubic downsampling, JPEG/ZIP recompression only when smaller, discard objects and user data, Flate clean-up, resource merging, object streams). Missing: fonts and transparency panels, space audit, preflight, PDF/A/X/UA |
@@ -179,6 +180,7 @@ M2 (renderer), M7 (content editing), M10 (OCR and Office), M11 (Preflight and st
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-17 | minor | M8, gap 6 #2662: a filled cover that hides half of any one word of a long line counts as a redaction-audit finding, applied or not; a sliver under half of every word stays unflagged. Estimates unchanged. |
| 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. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: valid AcroForm XML element names with original PDF field names preserved; saved-PDF collision and Unicode regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: preserve carriage returns in exported CSV field names and values; saved-PDF round-trip coverage. Estimates unchanged. |