TODO

Jay Berkenbilt
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TODO
@@ -3,66 +3,48 @@ Current
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  * open bugs
-
- * form features
-   * flatten
-   * include in json at document and page level
-     * values
-     * names
-     * other stuff?
-   * preserve when merging and splitting; functionality should be
-     similar to outlines.
-   * set value?
-   * maybe basic appearance generation for values within pdf doc
-     encoding that don't use subsetted fonts
-
- * replace mode: --replace-object, --replace-stream-raw,
-   --replace-stream-filtered
-   * update first paragraph of QPDF JSON in the manual to mention this
-   * object numbers are not stable
-   * you don't have to specify length for streams
-   * you only have to specify filtering for streams if providing raw data
+   * Important but non-trivial
+     #240 -- invalid indirect references
+     #209, #231 -- assert in linearization checks
+   * Security
+     #263 -- segv
+   * Performance
+     #243 -- very slow processing of something
+   * Easy
+     #266 -- get final PDF version from QPDFWriter
+     #259 -- page collation
+
+ * Generate appearance streams. QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh:
+
+    // If /NeedAppearances is true, generate appearance streams for
+    // all widget annotations. Note that qpdf's abilitiy to generate
+    // appearance streams is quite limited. We can only generate
+    // appearance streams for streams of type variable text, and even
+    // then, the appearance stream just uses the default parameters
+    // specified to substitute the form field's value into the
+    // provided appearance stream. This means that appearance streams
+    // will likely not look right for any form field values that
+    // contain characters outside the range of PDF Doc Encoding. Also,
+    // quadding is ignored.
+    QPDF_DLL
+    void generateAppearancesIfNeeded();
+
+   See need-appearances.pdf, which is based on form-field-types.pdf
+   and can be modified as needed. Search for it in qpdf.test
+
+   Close #72 when done.
+
+ * form field inclusion in json at document and page level
+   * values
+   * names
+   * other stuff?
  
  * special mode for compressing images with DCT
-   * allow specifying a single image, all images, images based on
-     size, specific images
+   * allow specifying a minimum width, height, or pixel area with
+     sensible defaults
    * never replace an image if the replacement is not smaller than the
      original
  
- * bookmarks (outlines) 12.3.3
-   * support bookmarks when merging
-   * prune bookmarks that don't point to a surviving page when merging
-     or splitting
-   * make sure conflicting named destinations work possibly test by
-     including the same file by two paths in a merge
-
-   When pruning outlines, keep all outlines in the hierarchy that are
-   above an outline for a page we care about. If one of the ancestor
-   outlines points to a non-existent page, clear its dest. If an
-   outline does not have any children that point to pages in the
-   document, just omit it.
-
-   Possible strategy:
-   * resolve all named destinations to explicit destinations
-   * concatenate top-level outlines
-   * prune outlines whose dests don't point to a valid page
-   * recompute all /Count fields
-
-   Test files
-   * page-labels-and-outlines.pdf: old file with both page labels and
-     outlines. All destinations are explicit destinations. Each page
-     has Potato and a number. All titles are feline names.
-   * outlines-with-actions.pdf: mixture of explicit destinations,
-     named destinations, goto actions with explicit destinations, and
-     goto actions with named destinations; uses /Dests key in names
-     dictionary. Each page has Salad and a number. All titles are
-     silly words. One destination is an indirect object.
-   * outlines-with-old-root-dests.pdf: like outlines-with-actions
-     except it uses the PDF-1.1 /Dests dictionary for named
-     destinations, and each page has Soup and a number. Also pages are
-     numbered with upper-case Roman numerals starting with 0. All
-     titles are silly words preceded by a bullet.
-
 Soon
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@@ -138,6 +120,42 @@ Page splitting/merging
    Subramanyam provided a test file; see ../misc/article-threads.pdf.
    Email Q-Count: 431864 from 2009-11-03.
  
+ * bookmarks (outlines) 12.3.3
+   * support bookmarks when merging
+   * prune bookmarks that don't point to a surviving page when merging
+     or splitting
+   * make sure conflicting named destinations work possibly test by
+     including the same file by two paths in a merge
+
+   When pruning outlines, keep all outlines in the hierarchy that are
+   above an outline for a page we care about. If one of the ancestor
+   outlines points to a non-existent page, clear its dest. If an
+   outline does not have any children that point to pages in the
+   document, just omit it.
+
+   Possible strategy:
+   * resolve all named destinations to explicit destinations
+   * concatenate top-level outlines
+   * prune outlines whose dests don't point to a valid page
+   * recompute all /Count fields
+
+   Test files
+   * page-labels-and-outlines.pdf: old file with both page labels and
+     outlines. All destinations are explicit destinations. Each page
+     has Potato and a number. All titles are feline names.
+   * outlines-with-actions.pdf: mixture of explicit destinations,
+     named destinations, goto actions with explicit destinations, and
+     goto actions with named destinations; uses /Dests key in names
+     dictionary. Each page has Salad and a number. All titles are
+     silly words. One destination is an indirect object.
+   * outlines-with-old-root-dests.pdf: like outlines-with-actions
+     except it uses the PDF-1.1 /Dests dictionary for named
+     destinations, and each page has Soup and a number. Also pages are
+     numbered with upper-case Roman numerals starting with 0. All
+     titles are silly words preceded by a bullet.
+
+ * Form fields: should be similar to outlines.
+
 General
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@@ -146,8 +164,22 @@ directory or that are otherwise not publicly accessible. This includes
 things sent to me by email that are specifically not public. Even so,
 I find it useful to make reference to them in this list
  
+ * Additional form features
+   * set value from CLI? Specify title, and provide way to
+     disambiguate, probably by giving objgen of field
+
+ * replace mode: --replace-object, --replace-stream-raw,
+   --replace-stream-filtered
+   * update first paragraph of QPDF JSON in the manual to mention this
+   * object numbers are not preserved by write, so object ID lookup
+     has to be done separately for each invocation
+   * you don't have to specify length for streams
+   * you only have to specify filtering for streams if providing raw data
+
  * Pl_TIFFPredictor is pretty slow.
  
+ * Maybe disambiguate resources when flattening annotations
+
  * Some test cases on bad fails fail because qpdf is unable to find
    the root dictionary when it fails to read the trailer. Recovery
    could find the root dictionary and even the info dictionary in