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core.arlington-validation, now partial. Standards > Validate structure, the structure_validate tool and `pdfcraft-cli validate` check the document as it is now (unsaved edits included) against the Arlington PDF Model, the PDF Association's machine-readable form of ISO 32000-2 (Apache-2.0). - crates/arlington: new standalone L0 crate behind a Source trait. It walks the object graph from the trailer and picks each linked object's type from its fixed values, special-case rules and keys. It checks required keys (with inherited page attributes), types, allowed values and fn:Eval rules, direct/indirect rules, newer and deprecated keys and values, special-case rules, and name and number trees. 25 of the model's 45 predicate kinds are evaluated; the rest are counted as not evaluated, never guessed. Bounded by a seen-set and depth, object and finding caps; property-tested. - data/arlington.tsv: the model's tsv/latest at d37f4c8b, joined by the new `cargo xtask arlington --from <checkout>` and pinned by a SHA-256 tree digest. Attributed in ATTRIBUTION.toml; the model's notice is in NOTICE. - Engine adapter over the cos document, command standards.structure and its catalog item, the automation tool, the CLI subcommand (fails on errors), and a dialog whose results list turns to a finding's page and flashes its annotation. Labels in all 22 catalogs; the findings' wordings in Spanish, Lithuanian and Vietnamese. - Parity entry with evidence, gap 22, pdf-spec-parity, the M2 row and the progress log.
core.arlington-validation. Running `pdfcraft-cli validate` over the pinned
pdf.js corpus (970 readable files) found 700 of 2,348 errors and warnings
to be the validator's own, in five places. Each has a synthetic regression
test, seen failing before its fix:
- Type selection: the highest-scoring candidate won even when the object
contradicted it, so a widget merged with its text field (more keys in
common with AnnotFreeText) or a form XObject was reported as fitting none
of its types. A contradicted candidate is now out; only when every one is
contradicted is the object reported (388 warnings).
- Repeating sets with optional members: a structure element's /A and /C
hold attribute objects or class names, each optionally followed by a
revision number (`0*` required, `1*` not). Elements were matched by
position; an optional member that doesn't fit is now skipped, and only a
set whose members are all required has to come whole (74 errors).
- A field's /DA (and /Q) inherit, at the end of the /Parent chain, from the
interactive form dictionary's document-wide default (8 errors).
- Version cascades: once a key is reported as newer than the file, the keys
of what it leads to ("Length in Metadata is from PDF 1.4") are not
reported again up to that version; a key newer still is (228 warnings).
- A value takes the alternative whose format it has: an annotation's /M is
`date;string-text`, so a string that is no date is text (1 warning).
core.arlington-validation stays partial. Its notes now give the corpus run: 700 of 2,348 findings (30%, in 67 files) were the validator's false positives and are fixed; 1,852 remain, none known to be the validator's. Three groups come from the model itself (form XObject /Resources required in every version, AnnotPopup /Parent without AnnotPolyLine, two-number Border dash arrays). The largest file, 163,867 objects, validates in 1.4 s on the UI thread. Three of the new tests join the evidence.
Standards > Validate structure ran pdfcraft_arlington::validate on the UI thread, freezing the window for the 1.4 s the largest pdf.js corpus file (163,867 objects) takes, and longer on larger files. - arlington: validate_with_progress tells the caller how many objects are checked every 512 work items and stops when the caller says so (no report). validate is the same walk with an always-true callback; the Source trait is unchanged. - engine: Document::structure_job snapshots the object graph, a pdfcraft_cos::Document clone (the file's bytes, xref index and bounded parse caches are shared Arcs; only the unsaved-edit overlay and the trailer are copied), and StructureJob::run validates it anywhere, under guard, like OptimizeJob. Later edits don't reach the snapshot. - ui-egui: the dialog runs the job the way Word count runs its worker (mpsc, a cancel flag and a progress count; inline before the first frame, in tests and on the web). It counts the objects checked; Cancel stops the check and keeps a report it was to replace (Check again); Close leaves it running; an edit meanwhile starts it over. The report is still kept until the document changes. The dialog starts a check itself when it has no report of the document as it is now, so the control channel's `set dialog structure` gets one too (it used to show "can't be checked" until the command ran). - Three new labels in all 22 catalogs; ATTRIBUTION.toml catalog hashes updated. - Tests: progress and cancel in arlington and the engine job (snapshot isolation, Send, run on another thread); in the UI, a held job shows frames going on, the count, Close, Cancel and an edit meanwhile; the structure kittest checks that the command returns before the report and that `set dialog structure` checks. Each new test was seen failing with its part of the fix reverted.
the_window_goes_on_while_the_check_runs looked for "42 objects so far" three frames after starting the check. The worker reports that count once its thread runs, which took longer than that on the Windows CI runner. The test now waits for the count by state, as the module's other waits do.
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- Around line 217-218: In the validate flow, determine the result from
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writing the JSON does not replace a validation failure with success. Preserve
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- Around line 469-474: Remove the 5-second elapsed-time assertion and its
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| stdout_line(format_args!("{json}"))?; | ||
| if report.is_valid() { Ok(()) } else { Err(format!("validate: {} error(s) against the Arlington PDF Model", report.errors).into()) } |
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A broken pipe can make validate exit with success for an invalid file.
validate documents that it "fails on errors". Line 217 writes the report with stdout_line(...)? before the validity check. A large report is one long JSON line. If the reader closes the pipe early (for example | head -c 200), the write returns CliError::Stdout(BrokenPipe). main maps that error to ExitCode::SUCCESS. The process then exits 0 even when report.errors > 0. A script that uses set -o pipefail sees success for a broken file.
Decide the exit status before the write. Then report the validation failure even when the write fails with a broken pipe.
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--- "a/apps/pdfcraft-cli/src/main.rs"
+++ "b/apps/pdfcraft-cli/src/main.rs"
@@ -214,8 +214,14 @@
report.findings.retain(|f| f.severity <= least);
let mut json = pdfcraft_automation::structure_report_json(&report);
json["file"] = serde_json::json!(path);
- stdout_line(format_args!("{json}"))?;
- if report.is_valid() { Ok(()) } else { Err(format!("validate: {} error(s) against the Arlington PDF Model", report.errors).into()) }
+ let failure: Result<(), CliError> =
+ if report.is_valid() { Ok(()) } else { Err(format!("validate: {} error(s) against the Arlington PDF Model", report.errors).into()) };
+ match stdout_line(format_args!("{json}")) {
+ // A reader that stopped early doesn't make an invalid file valid.
+ Err(CliError::Stdout(e)) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe => failure,
+ Err(e) => Err(e),
+ Ok(()) => failure,
+ }
}
fn flag<'a>(args: &'a [String], name: &str) -> Option<&'a str> {As per coding guidelines: "preserving each command's documented process-status semantics … Treat broken-pipe and diagnostic-write behavior according to the specific command paths".
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| stdout_line(format_args!("{json}"))?; | |
| if report.is_valid() { Ok(()) } else { Err(format!("validate: {} error(s) against the Arlington PDF Model", report.errors).into()) } | |
| let failure: Result<(), CliError> = | |
| if report.is_valid() { Ok(()) } else { Err(format!("validate: {} error(s) against the Arlington PDF Model", report.errors).into()) }; | |
| match stdout_line(format_args!("{json}")) { | |
| // A reader that stopped early doesn't make an invalid file valid. | |
| Err(CliError::Stdout(e)) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe => failure, | |
| Err(e) => Err(e), | |
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In the validate flow, determine the result from report.is_valid() before calling
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| let begun = Instant::now(); | ||
| let held = hold(&mut h); | ||
| // The worker counts its first objects once its thread runs, which on a slow runner takes | ||
| // more than a frame or two: wait for the count, not for a number of frames. | ||
| until(&mut h, "the first count", |app| app.structure_checking() == Some(42)); | ||
| assert!(begun.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(5), "frames waited for the check: {:?}", begun.elapsed()); |
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Remove the 5-second wall-clock assertion from this test.
until already waits up to 20 s for the worker's first count. Line 474 then requires that count within 5 s of begun. On a loaded CI runner, thread start and the first frames can take more than 5 s. The test then fails even though the UI did not block.
hold calls start(.., inline: false) directly. The work therefore always runs on a spawned thread, so the timing check proves nothing beyond what until proves. To show that the UI thread did not block, assert structure_checking().is_some() right after hold returns. That check uses state, not time.
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--- "a/crates/ui-egui/src/structure_ui.rs"
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@@ -466,12 +466,12 @@
#[test]
fn the_window_goes_on_while_the_check_runs() {
let mut h = harness();
- let begun = Instant::now();
let held = hold(&mut h);
+ // `start` returned while the work is still held: the UI thread did not run it.
+ assert!(h.state().structure_checking().is_some(), "the check runs off the UI thread");
// The worker counts its first objects once its thread runs, which on a slow runner takes
// more than a frame or two: wait for the count, not for a number of frames.
until(&mut h, "the first count", |app| app.structure_checking() == Some(42));
- assert!(begun.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(5), "frames waited for the check: {:?}", begun.elapsed());
h.get_by_label("Checking the structure… 42 objects so far");
assert_eq!(h.state().structure_checking(), Some(42));
assert!(h.query_by_label("Check again").is_none(), "Cancel, not Check again, while it runs");Based on learnings: "Tests should be deterministic: avoid reliance on real timing, sleep-based synchronization … since these cause flaky CI failures."
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| let begun = Instant::now(); | |
| let held = hold(&mut h); | |
| // The worker counts its first objects once its thread runs, which on a slow runner takes | |
| // more than a frame or two: wait for the count, not for a number of frames. | |
| until(&mut h, "the first count", |app| app.structure_checking() == Some(42)); | |
| assert!(begun.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(5), "frames waited for the check: {:?}", begun.elapsed()); | |
| let held = hold(&mut h); | |
| // `start` returned while the work is still held: the UI thread did not run it. | |
| assert!(h.state().structure_checking().is_some(), "the check runs off the UI thread"); | |
| // The worker counts its first objects once its thread runs, which on a slow runner takes | |
| // more than a frame or two: wait for the count, not for a number of frames. | |
| until(&mut h, "the first count", |app| app.structure_checking() == Some(42)); |
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/structure_ui.rs around lines 469 - 474:
Remove the 5-second elapsed-time assertion and its `Instant::now()` timing from
the test around `hold`. Immediately after `hold` returns, assert that
`h.state().structure_checking().is_some()` to verify the check remains held off
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| > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (structural validation against the Arlington PDF model: own, partial) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS) | |||
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Replace the old header line instead of adding a second one.
Line 3 adds a new > **Last reviewed:** … **Last updated:** … header. The old header on line 4 is still there. The document now has two header lines with different dates and different change descriptions (2026-10-15 Arlington and 2026-10-14 §12.4.4). The other parity docs, such as docs/gaps.md line 3, use one header line. Readers and any tooling that reads this header see conflicting metadata. Delete line 4. The §12.4.4 change is already in the revision history on line 135.
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--- "a/docs/pdf-spec-parity.md"
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@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
# PDF specification and standards parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (structural validation against the Arlington PDF model: own, partial) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (§12.4.4: page transitions and display times read) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
How much of ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) and the PDF subset standards PdfCraft implements, set against
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Remove the older duplicate metadata header from the document so only the updated
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What this changes
Standards ▸ Validate structure ran
pdfcraft_arlington::validateon the UI thread. The largest file in the pinned pdf.js corpus (bug1978317.pdf, 163,867 objects) takes 1.4 s to validate in the dev profile, so the window froze for that long. Larger real-world files would freeze it for longer. The check now runs on a worker thread. While it runs, the dialog shows a spinner and "Checking the structure… n objects so far".set dialog structure(control channel) now gets a check too. The dialog starts one itself whenever it has no report of the document as it is now. Before, that path showed "This document can't be checked" until the menu command ran.How the work is split:
crates/arlington: newvalidate_with_progress(src, opts, &mut dyn FnMut(usize) -> bool) -> Option<Report>.falsestops it, and then there is no report.validateis the same walk with a callback that always returnstrue.Sourcetrait is unchanged.crates/engine/src/structure.rs:Document::structure_job(&Options) -> Option<StructureJob>takes a snapshot of the object graph by cloning thepdfcraft_cos::Document.Arcs, and only the unsaved-edit overlay and the trailer are copied.StructureJob::run(progress)builds the page map and validates the snapshot on the worker, underguard, the wayOptimizeJobruns.crates/ui-egui/src/structure_ui.rs: the job runs the way Word count's worker does: anmpscchannel, a cancel flag and a progress counter.run_inline(tests) and on wasm.DocIdplus aWeakpointer to the working file.ATTRIBUTION.tomlare updated.How you verified it
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_tools/cargo-q,--profile low-disk -j 2, scoped to the three crates touched:cargo fmt --checkcargo clippy --package pdfcraft-arlington --package pdfcraft-engine --package pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings: cleanpdfcraft-arlington: all 39 pass.pdfcraft-engine --lib structure: 8 pass.pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib -- structure i18n spanish: 121 pass, among them every catalog's coverage test and the fourstructure_uitests.pdfcraft-ui-egui --test structure: 3 pass.cargo xtask layers(38 crates, no violations),cargo xtask assets(ok, with the 22 recomputed catalog hashes),cargo xtask parityNew tests:
arlington::tests::progress_is_reported_and_stops_the_walk:falsestops the walk with no report, after fewer than 1,000 of the 5,000+ indirect objects have been visited. A whole walk visits them all.engine::structure::tests::a_job_checks_its_snapshot_off_the_session:Send + 'static, and afalsefrom the callback givesOk(None).ui-eguistructure_ui::tests: these use a held job, which reports 42 objects and then waits for the test to release it.the_window_goes_on_while_the_check_runs: frames keep running while the check is held, the count shows, Close leaves the check running and the command shows it again, and the released report arrives by itself.cancel_stops_the_check_and_keeps_the_last_report: Cancel stops the worker and the dialog says so. Check again then reports. A cancelled Check again leaves that report in place.an_edit_while_checking_starts_over: the old check is told to stop, and the report equals a synchronous check of the edited document.ui-egui/tests/structure.rs:execute("standards.structure")returns with a check running and no report yet; the report arrives on later frames.the_structure_dialog_opened_by_the_control_channel_checks_too.Tests. Every new test was seen failing with its part of the fix reverted (four reverts applied together, each aimed at different tests):
progressprogress_is_reported_and_stops_the_walk("progress is said along the way: []"),a_job_checks_its_snapshot_off_the_session("cancelled")StructureState::startalways runs the work on the calling threadthe_window_goes_on_while_the_check_runs("frames waited for the check: 10.0 s"),cancel_stops_the_check_and_keeps_the_last_report,an_edit_while_checking_starts_overvalidate_structurechecks synchronouslyvalidate_structure_lists_findings_and_turns_to_their_page("a check is running")the_structure_dialog_opened_by_the_control_channel_checks_too("the dialog started a check")Second commit (Windows CI).
the_window_goes_on_while_the_check_runslooked for "42 objects so far" three frames after starting the check. The worker reports that count only once its thread runs, which took longer on the Windows runner. The test now waits for the count by state, like the module's other waits. Delaying the worker 400 ms before its first count reproduces the CI failure with the old test ("No nodes found matching the query"), and the new test passes with that delay and without it.Never-crash
unwrap/expect/panic!/unreachable!/todo!outside tests. The worker's send ignores a dialog that has moved on, and a thread that can't be spawned is reported in the dialog.wrapping_addchecked withis_multiple_of.unsafe.guard, so the worker always reports back. A worker that disappears anyway shows as "The check stopped unexpectedly".Provenance
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set dialog structureexisted before; it now gets a check like the command does.Parity and reach
core.arlington-validationstayspartial. Its notes say the dialog checks on a worker thread, and four of the new tests join the evidence.structure_validateandpdfcraft-cli validatestill call the synchronousDocument::validate_structure. A headless caller has no window to keep responsive.crates/arlington/README.mddocumentsvalidate_with_progress. ROADMAP.md has a progress-log line.Anything a reviewer should look at first
pub fnreturning a clone with private caches (like the crate-privateobject_reader) would avoid even that; it was left out to keep this change out ofcrates/cos.Summary by CodeRabbit