forme-pdf 0.28.0

A page-native PDF rendering engine. Layout INTO pages, not onto an infinite canvas.
Documentation
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//! # Forme
//!
//! A page-native PDF rendering engine.
//!
//! Most PDF renderers treat a document as an infinite vertical canvas and then
//! slice it into pages after layout. This produces broken tables, orphaned
//! headers, collapsed flex layouts on page boundaries, and years of GitHub
//! issues begging for fixes.
//!
//! Forme does the opposite: **the page is the fundamental unit of layout.**
//! Every layout decision—every flex calculation, every line break, every table
//! row placement—is made with the page boundary as a hard constraint. Content
//! doesn't get "sliced" after the fact. It flows *into* pages.
//!
//! ## Architecture
//!
//! ```text
//! Input (JSON/API)
//!       ↓
//!   [model]    — Document tree: nodes, styles, content
//!       ↓
//!   [style]    — Resolve cascade, inheritance, defaults
//!       ↓
//!   [layout]   — Page-aware layout engine
//!       ↓
//!   [pdf]      — Serialize to PDF bytes
//! ```

pub mod barcode;
pub mod chart;
pub mod error;
pub mod font;
pub mod image_loader;
pub mod layout;
pub mod model;
pub mod pdf;
pub mod qrcode;
pub mod style;
pub mod svg;
pub mod template;
pub mod text;

#[cfg(feature = "wasm")]
pub mod wasm;

#[cfg(feature = "wasm-raw")]
pub mod wasm_raw;

pub use error::FormeError;
pub use layout::LayoutInfo;
pub use model::{
    CertificationConfig, ColumnDef, ColumnWidth, FontEntry, PatternType, RedactionPattern,
    RedactionRegion, TextRun,
};
pub use model::{ChartDataPoint, ChartSeries, DotPlotGroup};
pub use model::{Document, Metadata, Node, NodeKind, PageConfig, PageSize};
pub use style::Style;

use font::FontContext;
use layout::LayoutEngine;
use pdf::PdfWriter;

/// Certify PDF bytes with an X.509 certificate.
///
/// Takes arbitrary PDF bytes and a certification configuration, and returns
/// new PDF bytes with a valid digital signature. Uses incremental update
/// to preserve the original PDF content.
pub fn certify_pdf(
    pdf_bytes: &[u8],
    config: &model::CertificationConfig,
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    pdf::certify::certify_pdf(pdf_bytes, config)
}

/// Redact regions of a PDF by overlaying opaque rectangles.
///
/// Takes arbitrary PDF bytes and a list of redaction regions (page, x, y,
/// width, height in top-origin coordinates). Returns new PDF bytes with
/// the redaction rectangles drawn on top via incremental update.
pub fn redact_pdf(
    pdf_bytes: &[u8],
    regions: &[model::RedactionRegion],
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    pdf::redaction::redact_pdf(pdf_bytes, regions)
}

/// Find text regions matching patterns in a PDF.
///
/// Searches PDF content streams for literal or regex patterns and returns
/// redaction regions (in web top-origin coordinates) for each match.
pub fn find_text_regions(
    pdf_bytes: &[u8],
    patterns: &[model::RedactionPattern],
) -> Result<Vec<RedactionRegion>, FormeError> {
    pdf::redaction::find_text_regions(pdf_bytes, patterns)
}

/// Redact text matching patterns from a PDF.
///
/// Convenience wrapper: finds text regions matching the patterns, then
/// applies coordinate-based redaction to all matches.
pub fn redact_text(
    pdf_bytes: &[u8],
    patterns: &[model::RedactionPattern],
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    pdf::redaction::redact_text(pdf_bytes, patterns)
}

/// Merge multiple PDFs into a single document.
///
/// Takes a slice of PDF byte slices and returns merged PDF bytes containing
/// all pages in order. Requires at least 2 input PDFs.
pub fn merge_pdfs(pdfs: &[&[u8]]) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    pdf::merge::merge_pdfs(pdfs)
}

/// Render a document to PDF bytes.
///
/// This is the primary entry point. Takes a document tree and returns
/// the raw bytes of a valid PDF file. If the document has a `certification`
/// configuration, the output PDF is digitally signed.
pub fn render(document: &Document) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    render_with_warnings(document).map(|(pdf, _warnings)| pdf)
}

/// Lay out a document, running the page-number sentinel re-layout loop **only
/// when the document actually places a `{{pageNumber}}`/`{{totalPages}}`
/// sentinel**. Without one, the reserved sentinel width is never consumed, so a
/// re-layout reproduces byte-identical pages — pure wasted work (measured as a
/// 2x render cost above 100 pages, where the total-page digit count first
/// crosses 2->3; see `benchmarks/`). The sentinel presence is detected at the
/// exhaustive chokepoint — every sentinel glyph is measured in
/// `FontContext::char_width`, from any source (HTML `counter()`, margin boxes,
/// JSX literals). Returns the laid-out pages, the populated font context, and
/// the number of full layout passes (1, or 2–3 when the width needed fixing).
///
/// SCOPING NOTE (investigated 2026-09, abandoned — see benchmarks/): re-laying
/// out ONLY the running element on a digit-width change, instead of the whole
/// document, looks like a clean ~2x win but is NOT scopable as written. The
/// sentinel width is consumed during INJECTION — `inject_fixed_elements` lays
/// out the footer/margin content — NOT during the flow pass; the flow-time
/// `measure_node_height` height reservation doesn't touch it. And HTML `@page`
/// margin boxes are mapped to Fixed nodes (see the `html` crate), so there is no
/// purely out-of-flow page-number case. Consequently the guard signals (is there
/// a sentinel? in flow or in a running element? does its height change?) don't
/// exist yet after a flow-only pass, and a naive "reuse flow + re-inject" split
/// silently SKIPS the digit-width correction entirely — a correctness regression
/// that byte-identity caught. Any future attempt must derive those signals from
/// injection or a document-model scan, not from the flow pass.
fn layout_with_sentinel_passes(
    document: &Document,
) -> (
    Vec<crate::layout::LayoutPage>,
    FontContext,
    u32,
    Vec<String>,
) {
    layout_with_sentinel_passes_audited(document, false)
}

fn layout_with_sentinel_passes_audited(
    document: &Document,
    audit: bool,
) -> (
    Vec<crate::layout::LayoutPage>,
    FontContext,
    u32,
    Vec<String>,
) {
    let mut font_context = FontContext::new();
    register_document_fonts(&mut font_context, &document.fonts);
    let engine = LayoutEngine::new();
    font_context.reset_page_sentinel();
    let mut pages = engine.layout(document, &font_context);
    let mut passes = 1u32;

    if font_context.saw_page_sentinel() {
        for _ in 0..2 {
            let needed = digits_for_count(pages.len());
            if needed == font_context.sentinel_digit_count() {
                break;
            }
            font_context.set_sentinel_digit_count(needed);
            pages = engine.layout(document, &font_context);
            passes += 1;
        }
    }
    let mut layout_warnings = engine.take_warnings();
    if audit {
        crate::layout::audit::audit_content(document, &pages, &mut layout_warnings);
    }
    (pages, font_context, passes, layout_warnings)
}

/// Number of full layout passes a document needs (1 for the common case; 2–3
/// only when a page-number sentinel's reserved width must be corrected).
/// Exposed as the regression guard for the sentinel re-layout optimization.
pub fn count_layout_passes(document: &Document) -> u32 {
    layout_with_sentinel_passes(document).2
}

/// Render a document to PDF bytes plus any non-fatal warnings (e.g. pdfUa
/// requested without an embeddable font registered). Same output as `render`;
/// the warnings surface through the WASM bindings and the HTML wrapper.
pub fn render_with_warnings(document: &Document) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>), FormeError> {
    render_with_warnings_and_passes(document).map(|(pdf, warnings, _passes)| (pdf, warnings))
}

/// Opt-in per-render checks. `Default` disables everything, and every
/// disabled check costs nothing — the flag is tested once per render.
/// Deserializes from the camelCase JSON the JS wrappers send
/// (`{"auditContent": true}`), unknown fields ignored so older engines
/// tolerate newer wrappers.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, rename_all = "camelCase")]
pub struct RenderOptions {
    /// Post-render content audit: after layout, verify the laid-out pages
    /// against the input document and report content that was dropped,
    /// rendered fully off-page, painted in its background's exact colour,
    /// or clipped to a zero-size box — through the render-defect channel
    /// (`render defect: ...` warnings), like every other case where the
    /// engine's output differs from what the document asked for.
    pub audit_content: bool,
}

/// Like [`render_with_warnings`], but also returns the number of layout passes
/// the render took — surfaced through the HTML wrapper for benchmark evidence.
pub fn render_with_warnings_and_passes(
    document: &Document,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>, u32), FormeError> {
    render_with_options(document, RenderOptions::default())
}

/// Like [`render_with_warnings_and_passes`], with opt-in [`RenderOptions`].
/// PDF 2.0 contradicts every ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7) based conformance
/// claim: PDF/A-2 and A-3 are defined over 1.7, as is PDF/UA-1. Error by
/// name rather than emit a file whose header falsifies its own claim.
/// PDF/A-4 is defined over ISO 32000-2: claiming it IMPLIES PDF 2.0
/// output, whatever pdfVersion says (the serde default cannot be told
/// apart from an explicit "1.7", so the claim wins — the alternative is
/// a file whose header falsifies its own conformance).
fn effective_pdf_version(document: &Document) -> crate::model::PdfVersion {
    use crate::model::{PdfAConformance, PdfVersion};
    if document.pdf_ua2 {
        return PdfVersion::V2_0;
    }
    match &document.pdfa {
        Some(PdfAConformance::A4 | PdfAConformance::A4f) => PdfVersion::V2_0,
        _ => document.pdf_version,
    }
}

fn validate_pdf_version(document: &Document) -> Result<(), FormeError> {
    use crate::model::{PdfAConformance, PdfVersion};
    if document.pdf_version != PdfVersion::V2_0 {
        return Ok(());
    }
    if let Some(level) = &document.pdfa {
        let family = match level {
            PdfAConformance::A2a | PdfAConformance::A2b | PdfAConformance::A2u => "PDF/A-2",
            PdfAConformance::A3a | PdfAConformance::A3b | PdfAConformance::A3u => "PDF/A-3",
            // A-4 is the 2.0-based standard: no contradiction — it
            // IMPLIES pdfVersion 2.0 (applied at render time below).
            PdfAConformance::A4 | PdfAConformance::A4f => return Ok(()),
        };
        return Err(FormeError::RenderError(format!(
            "pdfVersion \"2.0\" contradicts pdfa: {family} is defined over ISO 32000-1              (PDF 1.7). Drop the pdfa claim, or keep pdfVersion \"1.7\" (the default).              PDF/A-4 is the 2.0-based archival standard."
        )));
    }
    if document.pdf_ua {
        return Err(FormeError::RenderError(
            "pdfVersion \"2.0\" contradicts pdfUa: PDF/UA-1 is defined over ISO 32000-1              (PDF 1.7). Drop the pdfUa claim, or keep pdfVersion \"1.7\" (the default).              PDF/UA-2 is the 2.0-based accessibility standard (pdfUa2)."
                .to_string(),
        ));
    }
    Ok(())
}

/// PDF/UA-2 (ISO 14289-2:2024) is defined over PDF 2.0: it implies the
/// 2.0 output version and tagging, contradicts UA-1 and the 1.7 pdfa
/// levels, and composes with pdfa "4"/"4f".
fn validate_pdf_ua2(document: &Document) -> Result<(), FormeError> {
    use crate::model::PdfAConformance;
    if !document.pdf_ua2 {
        return Ok(());
    }
    if document.pdf_ua {
        return Err(FormeError::RenderError(
            "pdfUa2 contradicts pdfUa: a file claims PDF/UA-1 (ISO 32000-1) or PDF/UA-2 \
             (PDF 2.0), not both. Keep exactly one."
                .to_string(),
        ));
    }
    if let Some(
        PdfAConformance::A2a
        | PdfAConformance::A2b
        | PdfAConformance::A2u
        | PdfAConformance::A3a
        | PdfAConformance::A3b
        | PdfAConformance::A3u,
    ) = document.pdfa
    {
        return Err(FormeError::RenderError(
            "pdfUa2 contradicts a 1.7-based pdfa level (2x/3x are ISO 32000-1). \
             Compose PDF/UA-2 with pdfa: \"4\" or \"4f\", or drop one claim."
                .to_string(),
        ));
    }
    Ok(())
}

pub fn render_with_options(
    document: &Document,
    options: RenderOptions,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>, u32), FormeError> {
    validate_pdf_version(document)?;
    validate_pdf_ua2(document)?;
    // Coarse phase profiling behind FORME_PROFILE (native only in practice —
    // `env::var` is Err under wasm, so the timer is never constructed there and
    // `Instant::now` is never called). Prints layout vs serialize to stderr.
    let profile = std::env::var("FORME_PROFILE").is_ok();
    let t_layout = if profile {
        Some(std::time::Instant::now())
    } else {
        None
    };
    let (pages, font_context, passes, layout_warnings) =
        layout_with_sentinel_passes_audited(document, options.audit_content);
    let layout_ms = t_layout.map(|t| t.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0);

    let writer = PdfWriter::new();
    let tagged = document.tagged
        || document.pdf_ua
        || document.pdf_ua2
        || matches!(
            document.pdfa,
            Some(model::PdfAConformance::A2a) | Some(model::PdfAConformance::A3a)
        );
    let t_ser = if profile {
        Some(std::time::Instant::now())
    } else {
        None
    };
    let (pdf, warnings) = writer.write(
        &pages,
        &document.metadata,
        &font_context,
        tagged,
        document.pdfa.as_ref(),
        document.pdf_ua,
        document.embedded_data.as_deref(),
        &document.attachments,
        document.zugferd.as_ref(),
        document.flatten_forms,
        effective_pdf_version(document),
        document.pdf_ua2,
    )?;
    let warnings = {
        let mut all = layout_warnings;
        all.extend(warnings);
        all
    };
    let serialize_ms = t_ser.map(|t| t.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0);
    let pdf = if let Some(ref sig_config) = document.certification {
        pdf::certify::certify_pdf(&pdf, sig_config)?
    } else {
        pdf
    };
    if let (Some(l), Some(s)) = (layout_ms, serialize_ms) {
        eprintln!(
            "FORME_PROFILE pages={} passes={passes} layout_ms={l:.1} serialize_ms={s:.1}",
            pages.len()
        );
    }
    Ok((pdf, warnings, passes))
}

/// Render a document to PDF bytes along with layout metadata.
///
/// Same as `render()` but also returns `LayoutInfo` describing the
/// position and dimensions of every element on every page.
/// If the document has a `certification` configuration, the output PDF
/// is digitally signed.
pub fn render_with_layout(
    document: &Document,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>), FormeError> {
    render_with_layout_and_passes(document)
        .map(|(pdf, layout, warnings, _passes)| (pdf, layout, warnings))
}

/// Like [`render_with_layout`], but also returns the number of layout passes
/// the render took (1 for the common case; 2-3 when a page-number sentinel's
/// reserved width needed correction). The plain variant discarded this value,
/// which is how `renderHtmlWithLayout` shipped without `passes` on every
/// target while its declared type promised one.
pub fn render_with_layout_and_passes(
    document: &Document,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>, u32), FormeError> {
    render_with_layout_and_options(document, RenderOptions::default())
}

/// Like [`render_with_layout_and_passes`], with opt-in [`RenderOptions`].
pub fn render_with_layout_and_options(
    document: &Document,
    options: RenderOptions,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>, u32), FormeError> {
    validate_pdf_version(document)?;
    validate_pdf_ua2(document)?;
    let (pages, font_context, passes, layout_warnings) =
        layout_with_sentinel_passes_audited(document, options.audit_content);
    let layout_info = LayoutInfo::from_pages(&pages);
    let writer = PdfWriter::new();
    let tagged = document.tagged
        || document.pdf_ua
        || document.pdf_ua2
        || matches!(
            document.pdfa,
            Some(model::PdfAConformance::A2a) | Some(model::PdfAConformance::A3a)
        );
    let (pdf, warnings) = writer.write(
        &pages,
        &document.metadata,
        &font_context,
        tagged,
        document.pdfa.as_ref(),
        document.pdf_ua,
        document.embedded_data.as_deref(),
        &document.attachments,
        document.zugferd.as_ref(),
        document.flatten_forms,
        effective_pdf_version(document),
        document.pdf_ua2,
    )?;
    let pdf = if let Some(ref sig_config) = document.certification {
        pdf::certify::certify_pdf(&pdf, sig_config)?
    } else {
        pdf
    };
    let warnings = {
        let mut all = layout_warnings;
        all.extend(warnings);
        all
    };
    Ok((pdf, layout_info, warnings, passes))
}

/// Return the number of digits needed to display `n` as a decimal string.
fn digits_for_count(n: usize) -> u32 {
    if n < 10 {
        1
    } else if n < 100 {
        2
    } else if n < 1000 {
        3
    } else {
        4
    }
}

/// Register custom fonts from the document's `fonts` array.
fn register_document_fonts(font_context: &mut FontContext, fonts: &[FontEntry]) {
    use base64::Engine as _;
    let b64 = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD;

    for entry in fonts {
        let bytes = if let Some(comma_pos) = entry.src.find(',') {
            // data URI: "data:font/ttf;base64,AAAA..."
            b64.decode(&entry.src[comma_pos + 1..]).ok()
        } else {
            // raw base64 string
            b64.decode(&entry.src).ok()
        };

        if let Some(data) = bytes {
            font_context
                .registry_mut()
                .register(&entry.family, entry.weight, entry.italic, data);
        }
    }
}

/// Render a document described as JSON to PDF bytes.
pub fn render_json(json: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    let document: Document = serde_json::from_str(json)?;
    render(&document)
}

/// Render a document described as JSON to PDF bytes along with layout metadata.
pub fn render_json_with_layout(
    json: &str,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>), FormeError> {
    let document: Document = serde_json::from_str(json)?;
    render_with_layout(&document)
}

/// Like [`render_json_with_layout`], with opt-in [`RenderOptions`] — the
/// JSON-input mirror of [`render_with_layout_and_options`], used by the
/// WASM bindings so `@formepdf/core` callers can opt into the content
/// audit the way the HTML path already can.
pub fn render_json_with_layout_and_options(
    json: &str,
    options: RenderOptions,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>, u32), FormeError> {
    let document: Document = serde_json::from_str(json)?;
    render_with_layout_and_options(&document, options)
}

/// Render a template with data to PDF bytes.
///
/// Takes a template JSON tree (with `$ref`, `$each`, `$if`, operators) and
/// a data JSON object. Evaluates all expressions, then renders the resulting
/// document to PDF.
pub fn render_template(template_json: &str, data_json: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, FormeError> {
    let template: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(template_json)?;
    let data: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(data_json)?;
    let resolved = template::evaluate_template(&template, &data)?;
    let document: Document = serde_json::from_value(resolved)?;
    render(&document)
}

/// Render a template with data to PDF bytes along with layout metadata and
/// the render's warnings.
///
/// The warnings are part of the return tuple rather than an `_and_warnings`
/// variant on purpose: this function discarded them for its whole life, which
/// made `renderTemplateWithLayout` report "warnings: none" on every render
/// while its declared type promised a list. Matching [`render_with_layout`]'s
/// shape means a caller has to name the value to drop it.
pub fn render_template_with_layout(
    template_json: &str,
    data_json: &str,
) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, LayoutInfo, Vec<String>), FormeError> {
    let template: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(template_json)?;
    let data: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(data_json)?;
    let resolved = template::evaluate_template(&template, &data)?;
    let document: Document = serde_json::from_value(resolved)?;
    render_with_layout(&document)
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn test_digits_for_count() {
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(0), 1);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(1), 1);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(9), 1);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(10), 2);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(99), 2);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(100), 3);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(999), 3);
        assert_eq!(digits_for_count(1000), 4);
    }
}