paperforge-pdf 0.2.0

# PaperForge

> A comprehensive, pure-Rust PDF generation, editing, inspection, rendering, and document-processing engine.

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## Overview

PaperForge is a native Rust alternative to Python ReportLab and fragmented Rust PDF tooling. One coherent API for generating, editing, parsing, rendering, and extracting PDF documents.

## Quick Start

Add to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml
[dependencies]
paperforge = "0.1"
```

Generate a PDF:

```rust
use paperforge::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<(), PdfError> {
    let mut doc = Document::new();

    let page = doc.add_page(PageSize::A4);

    page.text()
        .at(50.mm(), 250.mm())
        .font_size(24.0)
        .write("Hello, Rust!");

    doc.save("hello.pdf")?;
    Ok(())
}
```

## Features

| Feature | Status |
|---------|--------|
| PDF Generation | ✅ |
| PDF Parsing | ✅ |
| PDF Editing | 🔄 (merge/split via CLI + `paperforge-pdf` edit API) |
| Text + Unicode | ✅ |
| Font Embedding | 🔄 (loading scaffold; TTF parsing/subsetting planned) |
| JPEG/PNG Images | ✅ (JPEG pass-through, PNG decode, `/SMask`) |
| Vector Graphics | ✅ |
| Basic Layout | 🔄 |
| Tables | 🔄 |
| Forms | 🔄 |
| Rendering | 🔄 |
| Encryption | 🔄 |
| PDF/A | 🔄 |

## Architecture

```
paperforge/
├── paperforge/          # Main public crate
├── paperforge-core/     # PDF-independent abstractions
├── paperforge-pdf/      # PDF serialization/parsing
├── paperforge-layout/   # High-level document layout
├── paperforge-fonts/    # Font handling
├── paperforge-images/   # Image support
├── paperforge-render/   # PDF rendering
├── paperforge-forms/    # AcroForm support
├── paperforge-annotations/ # Annotations
├── paperforge-security/ # Encryption/security
├── paperforge-extract/  # Text/image extraction
└── paperforge-cli/      # CLI tool
```

## Benchmarks

Measured with [criterion](https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs) (30 samples, median) on an **AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS / Windows 11** (2026-08-13). Workload: a 100-page A4 text document — one heading and one body line per page — built with each library's high-level (or object-level, for lopdf) API and then parsed from the same in-memory bytes. Every library builds the identical workload. Reproduce with `cargo bench -p paperforge-bench`.

| Benchmark | paperforge | lopdf 0.34 | printpdf 0.7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate 100-page text doc | 1.77 ms | 482 µs | 6.45 ms |
| Generate, content compression off | 543 µs | 482 µs ¹ | — |
| Parse 100-page doc (~36 KB) | 423 µs | 467 µs | — |
| Streaming open (no parse) | 129 µs | — | — |
| Output size (100 pages) | 35.9 KB | 27.4 KB | 60.9 KB |

¹ lopdf writes uncompressed streams by default; both columns use each library's default settings.

Notes:

- **Generation beats printpdf by ~3.6×.** paperforge (default: flate-compressed content, level 6) generates the 100-page document in 1.77 ms — 3.6× faster than printpdf (6.45 ms). lopdf remains the fastest because its default output skips compression entirely and is object-level; with compression disabled paperforge (543 µs) is within ~13% of lopdf (482 µs) on the same uncompressed workload, down from ~20% in the previous release.
- **Parsing beats lopdf** — 423 µs vs 467 µs on the same compressed 100-page document.
- **Streaming open is 3.6× faster than lopdf's full parse** — 129 µs to open a file and have random access to all 205 objects, vs 467 µs for lopdf's parse.
- **Output is 1.7× smaller than printpdf** (35.9 KB vs 60.9 KB). paperforge's output is also 25% smaller than the previous release (47.7 KB) thanks to a single shared `/Resources` object referenced by every page. lopdf's 27.4 KB is uncompressed object-level output that omits required structure such as the `/Parent` link; paperforge keeps full spec compliance (ISO 32000-1).
- The speedups come from reusing zlib compressor state across content streams (4–6× faster flate on many small streams), building content streams into a reused buffer without per-command `format!` allocations, interning common dictionary keys (`/Type`, `/Parent`, …) so dict inserts allocate nothing, `ryu` number formatting for content-stream coordinates, a fast hasher for dictionary keys, and manual integer/number parsing in the parser (no per-number UTF-8 validation or `str::parse`).
- The parse benchmark surfaced a real interop bug: xref table entries were 19 bytes instead of the spec-mandated 20 (ISO 32000-1 §7.5.4), which strict parsers such as lopdf reject. Entries are now spec-compliant, locked in by `serializer::tests::xref_entries_are_exactly_20_bytes`.
- Criterion also writes per-run reports and regression tracking to `target/criterion/`.

Full methodology and analysis are in [docs/benchmarks.md](docs/benchmarks.md).

## Feature Flags

```toml
[dependencies]
paperforge = { version = "0.1", features = ["generate", "parse", "layout", "fonts", "images"] }
```

Available features: `generate`, `parse`, `edit`, `layout`, `fonts`, `images`, `render`, `forms`, `annotations`, `security`, `extract`, `svg`.

## License

Dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.