PDF backend

PDF writing uses craft-pdf from storytold/craft-libs, pinned to 2eca9b3a53a98ac52efed2a27353c6a6927ead10. Its write feature supplies Krilla configuration, metadata construction, fallible font preparation and serialization, and native unwind guards. The dependency disables default features and enables write and interpret. The production writer retains Krilla’s raster-image support without its optional text shaper. PDF test fixtures enable simple-text through a dev dependency. The PDF crate explicitly retains the flate2 zlib-rs feature previously supplied by the registry reader, preserving compressed export bytes and their derived document IDs.

Stylo owns document traversal, drawing, font selection and embedding policy, colour conversion, presets, page boxes, layers, editing data, postprocessing and print composition. Editable import keeps its Stylo adapter, layer routing, colour policy and text decisions. Desktop printer submission remains in craft-print.

The shared writer vendors Krilla 0.8.2 with an unwind-safe cleanup and poisoning patch. The root [patch.crates-io] selects that copy from the same immutable revision: Cargo does not inherit a dependency workspace's patches. A failed page or surface cleanup poisons the backend document, so serialization cannot return an incomplete PDF after unwinding. The shared crate's compile-time backend marker and cargo xtask pdf-deps (included in CI) check that the patched writer is used. Krilla retains its MIT OR Apache-2.0 licensing; its upstream provenance and authored patch are recorded in the shared repository.

Export and print construction, drawing and postprocessing run inside the shared native unwind guard. These guards do not catch WASM aborts or process-wide allocation failures. Stylo retains its finite-coordinate checks and the existing behavior that omits art outside the writer's supported coordinate range. Font preparation checks the shared 512 MiB per-font copy limit and variation coordinates before allocation; failure preserves Stylo's reported outline fallback. The writer is not a peak-memory or runtime budget.

PDF reading uses the same shared revision's patched Hayro syntax 0.7.2, interpreter 0.7.0 and JBIG2 0.3.0. This snapshot also retains CCITT 0.3.0 and JPEG 2000 0.3.5. Its established Lab conversion uses Bradford adaptation; calibrated gray/RGB and tint-function conversion retain floating-point precision. This policy differs from the registry 0.8 reader's Lab profile and byte-quantized conversion and is assessed against independent colour expectations. The application explicitly preserves its existing accepted file sizes with OpenOptions { max_input_bytes: usize::MAX, ..Default::default() }; this migration adds no new file-size ceiling. Ordinary decoded streams use the shared backend's immutable per-document limits. Those limits are separate from streaming page-content budgets and do not bound aggregate document or process memory. Password classification and the existing permissions-password fallback remain application policy.

The layer and overprint pre-scan consumes ContentReader windows through TypedIter, retaining graphics and marked-content state between windows. It does not collect a whole page before scanning. Reaching the scan's operator, nesting or instruction-window limit, a reported failed/truncated stream, a cap-reaching filtered form, or an undecidable final operand tail returns an import error and discards the partial document. Previously the operator limit could return a partial layer routing with a warning. Interpreter completion warnings also become errors before a document is returned. Whitespace and comments at EOF remain valid. The typed iterator does not classify every malformed operator, so this is known-incomplete rejection rather than a general PDF validity certificate.

The three patched Hayro crates and Krilla are selected in the root [patch.crates-io] from the same immutable revision as craft-pdf. cargo xtask pdf-deps rejects missing, duplicate, local-path, registry and mismatched revisions for those five packages. craft-print and craft-ui keep their existing independent revisions.

Dependency asset hashes and sources are in ASSETS.md; redistributed license texts are in licenses/pdf-backend. Package staging carries those texts together with NOTICE and ASSETS.md. Fonts and profiles remain dependency data; this repository adds no font or profile binaries. Native page interpretation has a shared unwind guard; WASM aborts and process-wide allocation failures cannot be caught.

The shared parser retains current main's 64-level cap for direct arrays and dictionaries, including decoded content and object streams. The application retains its two-pass traversal of repaired object tables, 16-link function/colour-space cap, 64-level calculator-procedure cap, 256 MiB stream checks and predictor validation. Native interpretation uses the existing 16 MiB stack wrapper, and imported document depth remains bounded.

Known incomplete decoded content remains an import error, including deeply nested operands that the bounded parser cannot finish. Lowered ordinary decode limits and dictionary delimiters split across scan windows are covered by synthetic regressions; they require the typed incomplete-content error and never return a partial document. The former 256-level lexical preflight and its diagnostic are superseded by the parser cap and completion checks. The scratch bound does not cover whole-filter fallback decoding or aggregate parser/process memory.