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5ef27ff678 M5: ink strokes are drawn as smooth curves through their points (#374)
#260 (page 7) compares PdfCraft with Acrobat, which draws an Ink
annotation's /InkList as a smooth curve through the points;
pdfcraft-annot drew straight segments between them (as MuPDF, Poppler
and PDFium do). A stroke of three or more points is now drawn as a
Catmull-Rom spline through every point, written as cubic Béziers: the
curve leaves each point parallel to the chord between its neighbours,
and an end uses itself as the missing neighbour. Two points stay a
line and one point a dot. This is the appearance PdfCraft writes for
its own ink, signatures drawn with Fill & Sign included, and, with the
display-only appearances for comments that have none, how ink without
/AP is shown.

A curve can swing beyond its points, so a new ink annotation's /Rect
now also covers the curve's control points (the curve stays within
them); before, only the points plus the line-width margin.

Test: annot tests::ink_strokes_are_smooth_curves_through_their_points
checks the exact curve for a three-point stroke, a line for two points,
a dot for one, and a /Rect that holds a stroke whose curve rises above
its highest point (22 on main, 23.667 now). The comment.pencil parity
entry cites it.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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