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* Handle error conditions that occur when using the object handle interfaces. In the past, some exceptions were not correctly converted to errors or warnings. * Add more detailed information to qpdf-c.h * Make it possible to work more explicitly with uninitialized objects
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Return new qpdf_oh from qpdf_oh_wrap_in_array when input is already an array. Update some doc comments in qpdf-c.h.
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When adding a QPDFObjectHandle to an array or dictionary, if possible, check if the new object belongs to the same QPDF. This makes it much easier to find incorrect code than waiting for the situation to be detected when the file is written.
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This was originally not public because I wanted to get rid fo the pages cache, but I recently realized there were deep reasons not to do that, and the author of pikepdf wanted this, so I decided to make it public.
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Also improve behavior around direct vs. indirect resources.
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If not found in the field hierarchy, /Q and /DA are supposed to be looked up in the document-level form dictionary. /DR is supposed to only come from the document dictionary.
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This results in a performance penalty of 1% to 2% when replaceObject and swapObjects are never called and a somewhat larger penalty if they are called, but it's worth it to avoid very confusing behavior as discussed in depth in qpdf#507.