Flattening the fields of a laid-out XFA form used to leave the XFA in
the file: Adobe's viewers then laid the form out again from the
template over the baked pages, so the "flattened" PDF was still a live
form there and a plain one everywhere else.
pdfcraft_xfa::strip takes the XFA out of a document: the packets
(template, data and all), /NeedsRendering on the catalog and the
AcroForm, the layout mark, the overrides, and the private keys on
every field down the tree. The engine calls it after Flatten form
fields on a document with XFA packets, so the result is a plain PDF
every viewer shows the same, and for the new Edit::XfaToStatic
("Convert to a static form"; tool xfa_to_static), which keeps the
laid-out pages and the fields with their values as an ordinary
AcroForm that no viewer lays out again and whose scripts no longer
run. Both undoable: the engine's post-edit refresh re-reads the
layout mark to drop or restore its XFA state and the cached template.
What the packets held beyond the fields is reported (packets by
name, data no field showed, buttons left inert, the layout's own
warnings, Reader usage rights) as document warnings, and a dynamic
form that was never laid out is refused rather than left with
nothing. Applying redactions shares the same strip. Closes the last
planned XFA parity entry (form.xfa-flatten shipped).
55 files hand-rolled the same serialiser -- number the objects, record each one's offset, emit a
classic cross-reference table and a trailer -- 111 times over. The object bodies are properly the
business of the crate under test; the envelope around them is not, and every copy is a place for a
fixture to be quietly wrong in a way that makes a test prove less than it appears to.
`pdfcraft-testkit` holds that envelope. It has no workspace dependencies on purpose, so the crates
at the bottom of the layering can use it without a cycle, and it returns bytes rather than a parsed
document for the same reason.
The builder is byte-identical to the serialiser it replaces, asserted against a verbatim copy of
the old code across versions and trailer variations, because a migration that changes a fixture's
bytes silently changes what the test using it proves. Watched failing by breaking the free-entry
generation: three tests caught it. The one intended difference is that an empty stream dictionary
gives `<< /Length N >>` rather than a doubled space.
Migrates cos, measure and redact: 111 copies in 55 files becomes 108 in 53. The rest are
follow-ups rather than one sweep -- ui-egui alone is 27 of those files and is the most contested
area in the repository. Some copies should stay: a test about a malformed cross-reference table
needs to write its own bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The app, crates, binaries, bundle id, packaging, icons, screenshots and docs are now
PdfCraft / pdfcraft (repo storytold/pdfcraft). On first launch the desktop app moves the
PrintCraft settings and crash-recovery folders to the new name, and both apps read settings
saved under the old storage key, so upgrades keep recent files, preferences and unsaved work.
The signing test fixtures keep their PrintCraft subject names (they are binary).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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