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.CooCoo 222a124650 M5: Import comments takes another PDF and copies its comments onto the same pages (#4595)
* M5: Import comments takes another PDF and copies its comments onto the same pages

Import comments read only XFDF, FDF, XML, XDP, CSV and text data files.
It now also takes a PDF: each comment of that PDF is copied onto the
page with the same number, at the same place, with its appearance
stream, its pop-up, its replies and its layer. Comments on pages past
the document's last page are left out, together with replies to them.
Links, form fields and redaction marks are not copied. A comment named
like one already on its page replaces it, as an XFDF or FDF import
does. A PDF without comments is refused with "nothing in the file
matches this document", and a PDF that needs a password is refused.

- organize: import_comments copies the comments with the page copier
  that Insert Pages uses, and registers the layers they use.
- engine: Edit::ImportData reads a file that starts with %PDF- as a PDF.
  Any other file goes to the data importer first, and is read as a PDF
  when that fails, %PDF- occurs in its first 1,024 bytes and the PDF
  reader opens it.
- ui: Comments > Import comments lists .pdf files; form.import_data
  lists the same files as before.
- automation: the doc_import_data description names the PDF case.
- parity: comment.import-from-pdf is shipped.

* Import comments: an annotation that is no comment keeps its name

A comment imported from a PDF replaced any annotation of the same /NM
on its page that was not locked, a redaction mark or a widget, so a
link, screen or 3D annotation of that name was overwritten. Only an
annotation whose subtype is one of the copied comment subtypes is
replaced now; for any other, the copy is added beside it without the
name. The subtype is read through an indirect reference.

* Import comments: index each page's annotations instead of scanning them per comment

* Import comments: a layer that BaseState OFF hides stays hidden

* Import comments: a PDF with binary bytes before its header imports on an XFA form, and two comments with one name both land

On an XFA form, a decode failure no longer stops the import when a PDF
header is in the first 1,024 bytes; the PDF's comments are copied. Two
incoming comments on one page with the same /NM no longer replace the
same comment: the first replaces it, and the second is added without
the name.

* Import comments: an inline annotation on the page is replaced by name

An annotation written inline in a page's /Annots is made an indirect
object before names are matched, so an incoming comment with its /NM
replaces it instead of being added beside it.

* Import comments: two new comments with one name keep it once

When no comment on the page has the name, the first incoming comment
keeps its /NM and each later one with the same name is added without it.
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