docs: base the XFA page area Acrobat observations on a synthetic form (#2574) (#3431)

The earlier notes cited an observation made on a public real-world form,
which the Privacy rule does not allow. Re-observed in Acrobat Pro on
synthetic forms (three breakBefore pageArea sections, then a page area with
occur min=1 max=1, with and without relevant="-print"):

- the once-only page comes last in both;
- when printing it is kept in both, blank only with relevant="-print";
- a breakBefore on the first section, with or without startNew, makes
  Acrobat open an empty body page first (5 pages); with no break on the
  first section it lays out 4, as PdfCraft does. Recorded as a gap.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -5221,7 +5221,7 @@ status = "partial"
commands = ["file.open"]
tools = ["doc_open", "doc_info", "form_fields", "form_fill", "js_run"]
evidence = ["crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::layout_places_captions_fields_and_sizes_containers_to_their_content", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::tables_break_across_pages_and_repeat_their_header_row", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::rendering_into_the_pdf_replaces_the_placeholder_page_and_adds_fields", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::dynamic_xfa_forms_are_laid_out_on_open_filled_and_saved_incrementally", "crates/automation/tests/automation.rs::dynamic_xfa_forms_open_render_fill_and_save_through_tools", "crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_group/xfa.rs::a_dynamic_xfa_form_is_laid_out_and_filled", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::nested_width_less_subforms_lay_out_in_polynomial_time", "crates/js/src/tests.rs::instance_managers_add_remove_and_count", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::the_form_tree_carries_values_presence_instances_and_the_events", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_scripts_initialize_calculate_validate_toggle_and_add_rows", "crates/automation/tests/automation.rs::xfa_scripts_run_for_buttons_and_field_changes_through_tools", "crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_group/xfa.rs::xfa_buttons_run_their_scripts_in_the_app", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::hostile_xfa_open_scripts_are_merged_capped_kept_from_printing_and_noted", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::runaway_xfa_calculations_at_open_end_quickly_with_a_report", "crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_group/xfa.rs::a_form_whose_scripts_were_turned_off_at_open_says_so", "crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_group/xfa.rs::scripts_turned_off_by_a_click_bring_a_closed_notice_bar_back", "crates/automation/tests/automation.rs::doc_info_says_when_a_runaway_script_turned_the_forms_scripts_off", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::the_live_form_of_nested_repeating_subforms_stops_at_its_node_budget", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::data_ops_of_one_event_are_one_datasets_rewrite", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::choice_lists_signatures_passwords_and_pictures_become_fields_and_images", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::choice_values_come_from_the_data_as_saved_values_and_several_for_lists", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::pictures_are_sized_from_their_headers_and_hostile_ones_are_refused_unallocated", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_choice_lists_signature_and_picture_fields_open_fill_script_and_save", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::repeating_subforms_inside_positioned_content_get_their_instances", "crates/engine/src/tests.rs::xfa_rows_in_areas_are_laid_out_read_calculated_and_written_where_adobe_binds_them", "crates/xfa/src/tests.rs::page_area_without_occur_serves_every_body_page", "apps/pdfcraft-cli/tests/xfa.rs::info_reports_the_laid_out_pages_and_fields", "apps/pdfcraft-cli/tests/xfa.rs::text_reads_the_layout_including_a_page_absent_from_the_placeholder", "apps/pdfcraft-cli/tests/xfa.rs::render_matches_the_engine_layout_on_the_second_page", "apps/pdfcraft-cli/tests/xfa.rs::a_laid_out_form_keeps_the_original_copy_permissions"]
notes = "laid out from the template on open by the xfa crate (positioned, tb, lr-tb, table/row, page masters (a page area with no occur repeats without limit, one with occur max=1 is used once, one with occur min=1 the body never reached gets a page after the body, as Acrobat Pro shows the public ISCIII form), breaks, repeated header rows, captions, rich text, JPEG/PNG/GIF images) into real pages and AcroForm fields (text, password, date with AFDate formats, check boxes, radio groups, drop-downs and list boxes with shown/saved item pairs and multi-select, signature fields, image fields showing their picture (pictures decoded once per document, at most 20 million pixels, and reused across re-layouts), buttons with reset/print/save/URL), filled from the datasets packet (including rows another viewer added), saved as an incremental revision with the values merged into the datasets so Adobe's viewers show them; doc_info reports xfa_layout. CLI info reports the laid-out page/field counts and dimensions while retaining the input file size and raw counts as pdf_pages/acroform_fields; text and render use those pages too, preserving copy permissions and leaving the source file unchanged (#1645). XFA JavaScript and FormCalc (form.xfa-formcalc) run in the js crate's XFA object model (xfa.form, SOM resolution, rawValue, presence, access, instance managers, xfa.host, xfa.layout, xfa.event): initialize and calculate on open, exit, validate and calculate after a field changes, click for buttons (through js_run and the app), with rows added and removed, subforms shown and hidden, and the form laid out again, all as one undo step and kept in the file. All the scripts of one event run on one thread, each in a fresh context on the form as the engine holds it then (nothing shared between scripts; the live form kept up to date in place for values, rebuilt only when the structure changed), so hundreds of calculations run within the open budget. Hostile scripts are bounded per event (merged and capped effects, messages and console lines, lower loop limits and a time budget on open and calculate, one datasets rewrite per event, print/save/links/focus from clicks only, a runaway script abandoned and the form's scripts turned off, which the app says in a toast and on the notice bar, with a button to the JavaScript console, and doc_info reports as xfa_scripts_off) and what open-time scripts changed is noted. Missing: a page area's relevant=\"-print\" (Acrobat still prints the page but leaves it blank; PdfCraft prints its content, #2574); loops inside nested calls are only stopped by abandoning their thread, and script memory is not capped; the change event per keystroke; xfa.template, connections and data descriptions; a hidden instance of a repeating subform hides them all; barcodes are drawn as their text, not bars; keep rules; metrics are approximate and Acrobat fidelity is eyeballed on real forms, not measured (#60)"
notes = "laid out from the template on open by the xfa crate (positioned, tb, lr-tb, table/row, page masters (a page area with no occur repeats without limit, one with occur max=1 is used once, one with occur min=1 the body never reached gets a page after the body, as Acrobat Pro does on a synthetic form), breaks, repeated header rows, captions, rich text, JPEG/PNG/GIF images) into real pages and AcroForm fields (text, password, date with AFDate formats, check boxes, radio groups, drop-downs and list boxes with shown/saved item pairs and multi-select, signature fields, image fields showing their picture (pictures decoded once per document, at most 20 million pixels, and reused across re-layouts), buttons with reset/print/save/URL), filled from the datasets packet (including rows another viewer added), saved as an incremental revision with the values merged into the datasets so Adobe's viewers show them; doc_info reports xfa_layout. CLI info reports the laid-out page/field counts and dimensions while retaining the input file size and raw counts as pdf_pages/acroform_fields; text and render use those pages too, preserving copy permissions and leaving the source file unchanged (#1645). XFA JavaScript and FormCalc (form.xfa-formcalc) run in the js crate's XFA object model (xfa.form, SOM resolution, rawValue, presence, access, instance managers, xfa.host, xfa.layout, xfa.event): initialize and calculate on open, exit, validate and calculate after a field changes, click for buttons (through js_run and the app), with rows added and removed, subforms shown and hidden, and the form laid out again, all as one undo step and kept in the file. All the scripts of one event run on one thread, each in a fresh context on the form as the engine holds it then (nothing shared between scripts; the live form kept up to date in place for values, rebuilt only when the structure changed), so hundreds of calculations run within the open budget. Hostile scripts are bounded per event (merged and capped effects, messages and console lines, lower loop limits and a time budget on open and calculate, one datasets rewrite per event, print/save/links/focus from clicks only, a runaway script abandoned and the form's scripts turned off, which the app says in a toast and on the notice bar, with a button to the JavaScript console, and doc_info reports as xfa_scripts_off) and what open-time scripts changed is noted. Missing: a page area's relevant=\"-print\" (on a synthetic form Acrobat still prints the page but leaves it blank; PdfCraft prints its content, #2574); a page break before the first section (Acrobat opens an empty body page first when the first section has breakBefore targetType=pageArea, with or without startNew, as seen on synthetic forms; PdfCraft skips a break on an empty page and lays out one page fewer, #2574); loops inside nested calls are only stopped by abandoning their thread, and script memory is not capped; the change event per keystroke; xfa.template, connections and data descriptions; a hidden instance of a repeating subform hides them all; barcodes are drawn as their text, not bars; keep rules; metrics are approximate and Acrobat fidelity is eyeballed on real forms, not measured (#60)"
[[feature]]
id = "form.xfa-formcalc"