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A PDF cut short loses the share of its pages asked for - #241
--damage truncate now cuts the pages of a PDF by the percentage asked for. Before, a PDF kept all of its padding in a comment behind the trailer, so a cut of any share took only padding and every page was left - a 1 MiB PDF cut by 90% still opened whole.
A document a damage will cut splits that comment around its objects:
part of it right after the header lines (%PDF-x.y and the binary comment line), in front of the first object,
the objects, the cross reference table and the trailer,
the rest behind the trailer, before startxref and %%EOF.
The share in front is the one that makes the cut keep the same share of the objects as of the whole file. Every offset in the cross reference table counts the comment in front. Each offset is ten digits (ISO 32000-1 section 7.5.4), so the table keeps its length whatever stands in front, and only the number after startxref grows - a digit at a power of ten, which the padding behind gives up. Each side of the comment is either empty or at least two bytes. When the exact share would leave one byte behind, the cut takes a byte more of the objects, and where startxref gains a digit it may keep a byte more. Objects stop where ten digits do, at 9 999 999 999 B, so a cut that keeps 10 billion bytes or more keeps every object, and one a few kilobytes short of that keeps more than the share.
Documents nothing cuts keep their bytes.
Measured
Share lost, asked 50 / 90%: 64 KiB and 1 MiB, 50.00% and 90.01-90.02% of the objects. Asked 1%: 1.02%.
Uncut PDFs against main: 24 of 24 the same (default, pages=3, orientation=landscape, 4 KiB-10 MiB, with and without the label). Cut files change bytes, with no new refusals.
The whole document with its comment split or all in front, at 20 KB, 1 MB and 10 MB with 1 and 3 pages: a structural checker passes each, and Xpdf 4.06, Poppler 22.12.0, qpdf 11.3.0, MuPDF 1.21.1, Ghostscript 10.00.0, pypdf 7.1.0 (strict and lenient), PDFium (the engine of Chrome and Edge), pdf.js 6.5.438 (the engine of Firefox), exiftool and the Windows PDF API read the same pages and text as from today's layout, with no new warning.
The document laid out for a cut and cut by 50% or 90% has lost its cross reference table and trailer, as a PDF from an interrupted download has. Xpdf, Poppler, qpdf, pypdf, PDFium, pdf.js and the Windows PDF API refuse it. MuPDF and Ghostscript rebuild it and show the beginning. The manifest keeps saying the file is rejected, with certainty, as it says of a cut JPEG or PNG that an image viewer can still show the top of.
tfg generate --format pdf --size 64kb --set pages=3 --damage truncate:missing=50 keeps 4 537 of 9 074 B of objects. pdftotext refuses the file, mutool draw -F txt gives back the beginning of the document.
Limits
In a small PDF a cut of a few percent is shorter than the cross reference table, the trailer and %%EOF (about 200 B against 41 B at 1% of 4 KiB). All the padding then goes in front, the cut falls in the end, every page is kept, and the manifest says in: end. The share guard accepts this because ISO 32000-1 section 7.5 puts the table and the trailer after the body and the end of file marker last.
A document within a couple of bytes of its smallest size has no padding to move and is written as one nothing cuts.
Guards
pdf leaves the ratchet of formats that do not yet cut at the share, and joins the formats whose end closes the file.
internal/oracle/layout.py takes an ASCII comment block between the header lines and the first object as padding, so the map guard holds the new layout to the file's structure.
The manifest guard's witness of a cut that falls in the padding behind is now an MP4, and the reach check of the smallest cut names the ZIP formats instead of borrowing the list of formats whose end closes the file.
New TestAPDFLaidOutForACutComesToEverySizeAndItsOffsetsLand: consecutive sizes across the digit startxref gains, across where the padding behind runs out, and up from the smallest size. For each it checks the length, that every offset in the table lands on its object, and the share to the byte, and it asserts it met every layout (all in front with a four and a five digit startxref, a few bytes behind at the digit, the exact share, a byte more in front). It also plans a 20 GiB document without writing it and checks the objects end at 9 999 999 999 B. Canary: a table with one offset a byte off must fail.
Broken by hand, each turned the new guard red: no front + 1 candidate, the length of startxref counted without the comment in front, and no ten digit limit (objects up to 19 327 353 153 B).
After the review
The new guard took a document with nothing in front of its objects as one layout among the others, before it asked what the cut kept. A split with nothing in front of every document under 400 B of padding passed it. Nothing in front now passes only where there is no padding to move (asserted at the smallest size) or the share wants none, and the same break turns 398 sizes red. A second canary holds a document nothing cuts to a cut at its half and requires it to fail.
The changelog entry names the second cut that keeps every page: one that keeps 10 billion bytes or more.
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Adobe Acrobat and macOS Preview. Chrome, Edge and Firefox themselves were not opened - their PDF engines were measured.
A PDF a damage cuts splits its padding comment around its objects: part of
it right after the header lines, in front of the first object, and the rest
behind the trailer, so the cut keeps the share of the objects it keeps of
the whole file. Before, all of the padding stood behind the trailer, and a
cut of any share left every page.
Every offset in the cross reference table counts the comment in front, and
each is ten digits, so only startxref grows - a digit at a power of ten,
which the padding behind gives up. Each side is nothing or at least two
bytes. Objects stop where ten digits do (ISO 32000-1 section 7.5.4).
Documents nothing cuts keep their bytes.
The reader of maps takes an ASCII comment block between the header and the
first object as padding. pdf leaves the share ratchet and joins the formats
whose end closes the file, an MP4 is the manifest guard's witness of a cut
in the padding behind, and the reach check of the smallest cut names the
ZIP formats. A new guard writes consecutive sizes across the digit startxref
gains and where the padding behind runs out, and plans a 20 GiB document.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
PDF cut planning can place padding before the objects and update cross-reference offsets. The PDF oracle and guard tests now classify and validate the resulting regions. The changelog records the observed behavior of truncated PDFs in several viewers.
Changes: PDF cut layout
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Summary
Plan and write PDF padding internal/format/pdf/*, CHANGELOG.md
PDF planning can split cut padding between a front comment and trailing padding. The document offsets account for front padding, and the writer emits the front comment before the remaining prefix. The changelog describes truncation outcomes.
Map PDF header and padding regions internal/oracle/layout.py
The oracle recognizes a binary comment after the PDF header and classifies intervening ASCII comment lines as padding.
Validate cut layouts and guard records internal/guard/pdfcut_test.go, internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go, internal/guard/cutshare_test.go, internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
New PDF tests check sizes, offsets, region roles, and oversized-table behavior. Existing guard cases and mutation coverage are updated for PDF cut layouts.
sequenceDiagram
participant Plan
participant splitForACut
participant document
participant Write
Plan->>splitForACut: requested size and cut position
splitForACut-->>Plan: front padding and trailing padding
Plan->>document: rebuild with front-padding offset
Plan->>Write: PDF prefix and padding positions
Write->>Write: emit front comment and remaining prefix
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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 0605a
The PDF truncation change looks sound. Two follow-ups are worth doing: tighten the new layout test so it checks the retained share for zero-front layouts, and note in the changelog that very large PDFs can keep more content than requested.
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The title "A PDF cut short loses the share of its pages asked for" matches the main change: PDF truncation (--damage truncate) now splits padding around the document body so the requested share of objects is removed. The title is specific to PDFs and to the truncation behavior. It describes the problem being fixed rather than the mechanism, which is acceptable for a title. It does not use vague terms. The title is 54 characters, within the ~140 character limit.
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The PR changes non-UI runtime behavior in Go and Python code. Changed runtime files include internal/format/pdf/cut.go (+62), document.go, pdf.go, minimum.go, padding.go, and internal/oracle/layout.py. The PR adds coverage for this behavior. New file internal/guard/pdfcut_test.go (212 added lines in the PR range) contains TestAPDFLaidOutForACutComesToEverySizeAndItsOffsetsLand. It checks lengths, offset landing, the retained share, and the layouts. It also includes a canary. internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go gains a provenByProbe entry for the same test. The map and manifest guards are updated as well. Test deletions and modifications exist, and each has an explicit justification in the PR description: - cutmanifest_test.go: the PDF "behind" witness at 1 MiB/90% is replaced by an MP4. The description states this. The smallest-cut reach check now names ZIP formats instead of the endClosesTheFile lookup. The description states this too. - cutshare_test.go: "pdf" is removed from the not-yet-cut ratchet and listedBeforeTheRule, and added to endClosesTheFile. The description states that pdf "leaves the ratchet of formats that do not yet cut at the share, and joins the formats whose end closes the file." The cutshare_test.go comment at line 213 cites ISO 32000-1 section 7.5 as the reason. No test was skipped. No test was removed without a stated reason. The changed expectations follow the new PDF layout, as the PR description explains. Reviewer comments on pdfcut_test.go (zero-front share check) and CHANGELOG.md (large-file limit) concern test strength and documentation. They do not show a missing test for changed behavior. This check is not a test-quality gate, so these do not trigger FAIL.
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No clear, concrete performance problem introduced or touched by this PR (commits 0605aaf and 9da8f9c, diffed against c0dba0a). - internal/format/pdf/cut.gosplitForACut is constant-time. It evaluates a fixed candidate list (front, front+1, front-1), and each padding() call builds a short closing() string. Nothing scans the document body. - pdf.goPlan calls document a second time only when a front split applies. Write streams writeComment for the front padding, the same way it already streams the trailing padding. No new buffering or per-byte loop is added to the product path. - document.go adds front to each xref offset in the existing loop. That loop is linear in object count and was already linear before the PR. - internal/oracle/layout.py adds one line scan and one anchored fullmatch over the gap between the header and the first object. The gap is normally small, and the pattern has no nested quantifiers. - internal/guard/pdfcut_test.go generates about 3,700 small PDFs (up to roughly 25 KB) in a sweep. The 20 GiB case is planned, and the write goes to a writer that fails at once. This is test-suite runtime, not product runtime, and it is not a clear problem. No UI thread work, unbounded collection growth, O(n²) processing over large collections, per-item external calls, or polling appears in the changed code.
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The check applies to code that reads, imports, or exports files and could execute code, resolve external entities, deserialize arbitrary types, write unescaped formula values, follow paths outside a folder, or crash/hang on malformed or huge input. The PR (#241, author donislawdev, verified) changes PDF generation in internal/format/pdf (cut.go, document.go, pdf.go, padding.go, minimum.go) and test code. It does not add XML, XAML, CSV, XLSX, JSON, YAML, archive, or other input parsing. Output is generated bytes, not parsed input. The only parsing-related change is in internal/oracle/layout.py, a test oracle that maps generated PDF bytes. The PR adds a header-comment region check: a slice from data.index(b"\n"), and a re.fullmatch(rb"(%[\x20-\x7e]*\n)+", front) on bytes from the file. Each repetition must end at a newline, so the pattern does not backtrack catastrophically. A malformed file raises NoMap or a ValueError, and the existing reader wrapper catches it. The file read (open(path,"rb") / handle.read()) predates this PR and is not in the diff. The new guard tests build and check PDFs in-process, and the 20 GiB case is planned, not written. The PR adds no code execution, no external entity resolution, no deserialization, no formula-like CSV/XLSX output, and no new path handling. Residual note, not a failure under this check: layout.py reads whole files without a size ceiling. That is unchanged by this PR and is test tooling only.
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The check does not apply. It applies only when the PR adds or changes code that modifies system state, such as network filters, proxies, firewalls, system time, process hooking, Windows services, registry, or drivers. The PR changes a PDF generator and its tests. The raw summary lists these files only: - CHANGELOG.md - internal/format/pdf/cut.go, document.go, minimum.go, padding.go, pdf.go - internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go, cutshare_test.go, mutationcoverage_test.go, pdfcut_test.go - internal/oracle/layout.py These changes alter how --damage truncate splits PDF padding around the objects. They write generated files. None of them touch the listed system-state categories. The PR description and objectives also describe only PDF layout, offsets, and reader compatibility. No system-state code is in scope, so no reversibility check is needed.
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The check applies only if the PR adds or changes text shown to the user. The PDF changes in this PR do not do that. The changed PDF code (internal/format/pdf/cut.go, document.go, pdf.go, padding.go, minimum.go) changes layout logic and code comments. It adds no UI labels, buttons, tooltips, CLI help, confirmations, or user-facing error messages. The only new error strings found in the diff are internal core.Defect and t.Errorf messages, which are developer diagnostics. The internal/oracle/layout.py change is a PDF structure parser, not user-facing text. The CHANGELOG.md entry is release documentation rather than in-product text. The PR does not change the manifest wording it mentions; it reports the existing in: end value. The diff also includes zip/targz/gif/opc hunks from other changes, but none of them belong to this PR's PDF scope. The CodeRabbit threads concern changelog accuracy and zero-front test coverage. They do not raise any UI or message-clarity issue. No text in scope is subject to the check's criteria, so it is not applicable.
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The custom check asks for warnings on code that leaks or accumulates resources over time. I reviewed the PR's changed Go code (internal/format/pdf/cut.go, document.go, minimum.go, padding.go, pdf.go) and the new internal/guard/pdfcut_test.go. - Generator changes are pure byte arithmetic.splitForACut and closing allocate no handles. document builds into a local bytes.Buffer. Plan only sets memo fields. - Writer does not own resources.Write writes to the caller's io.Writer and never opens, closes, or retains it. It calls format.Mark and writeComment twice now (front and behind). writeComment uses one make([]byte, 0, padChunkSize+lineLen) per call, which is bounded and short-lived. The ctx.Done() check is unchanged. - No new goroutines, timers, subscriptions, or caches. The diff adds none. The test file has no goroutines or timers. - Test resources are bounded. Test output goes to in-memory bytes.Buffer. The 20 GiB case is planned and then written to a failingWriter that refuses the first write, so no large buffer or file is created. - Out-of-scope files.CHANGELOG.md, layout.py, and the guard tests are documentation, Python byte analysis, or test assertions. The change summaries show no I/O, process, or handle changes in them. The two CodeRabbit threads concern documentation accuracy and a test's zero-front share check. Neither concerns resource lifetime. No resource-leak condition is introduced.
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The PR stays within its stated scope and reuses existing architecture. No unrelated refactor or breaking public-interface change was found. - Scope: The title and description cover the PDF --damage truncate change. They also cover the guard and test updates, internal/oracle/layout.py, and the padding.go comment. The raw summary's file list matches that description. No unrelated refactor is mixed in. - Duplication:internal/format/pdf/cut.go calls the shared format.PaddingInFront helper, as the PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, ZIP, tar.gz and OPC cut paths do. It does not add a parallel padding-split implementation. - Docs: The PDF behavior change is user-facing. CHANGELOG.md has a PDF truncate entry at line 110 under ### Breaking (section starts line 17). The entry covers the percentage cut, the two cuts that keep every page, and the 10-billion-byte case. That case covers the large-file limit raised in the CodeRabbit thread. README's general truncate section (lines 525-533) still holds for PDF and was not changed. That is a minor gap, not a violation. - Breaking changes: Cut PDFs change bytes. That change is recorded under ### Breaking, as the changelog preamble requires for byte changes. Uncut PDFs keep their bytes, per the PR's 24-of-24 comparison. The CLI, arguments and configuration are unchanged. Non-blocking observation, not attributable to this PR: many source comments cite docs/TRUNCATE-2026-11-11.md, which is absent from this checkout. Those references predate this PR.
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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 110: Update the `truncate` changelog entry to clarify that, in very large
PDFs, the cross-reference offset limit can cause the retained content to exceed
the requested percentage, potentially including the entire document; place this
clarification alongside the existing small-PDF exception and ensure it matches
the behavior in the PR.
Review comments at @internal/guard/pdfcut_test.go:
- Around line 121-122: Update the zero-front handling in pdfLayoutOf’s test
coverage to validate the retained share when movable front padding should have
been retained, while exempting legitimate zero-front outcomes from splitForACut.
Confirm which swept sizes reach the no-padding, end-of-content, PaddingInFront,
and minimum-comment/digit-gain cases before applying the check, and add a
negative canary with movable trailing padding and an incorrect retained share
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Check the retained share for zero-front layouts.
pdfLayoutOf accepts front == 0 as its first case and returns "nothing in front" before it compares the retained share. A zero-front cut therefore passes whatever share it keeps.
If splitForACut drops movable front padding at some swept size, this test still passes. The reach checks require only the five named layouts to occur at some size, and other sizes still provide them. Size and offset checks also pass, because zero front leaves the offsets unchanged.
Zero front is not always a defect. splitForACut returns no front padding when there is no padding, when the cut is at or past the end, when PaddingInFront gives no front, or when no candidate front fits the minimum comment and digit-gain constraints. A strict share check must exempt those cases. Confirm which swept sizes reach each case before you add the check.
Add a negative canary: a document with movable trailing padding whose cut keeps a share other than content*cutAt/size while the layout reports zero front. The test should reject that document.
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Update the zero-front handling in pdfLayoutOf’s test coverage to validate the retained share when movable front padding should have been retained, while exempting legitimate zero-front outcomes from splitForACut. Confirm which swept sizes reach the no-padding, end-of-content, PaddingInFront, and minimum-comment/digit-gain cases before applying the check, and add a negative canary with movable trailing padding and an incorrect retained share that the test rejects.
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…the limit
The guard of a PDF laid out for a cut took a document with nothing in front
of its objects as one layout among the others, before it asked what the cut
kept. A split that dropped the padding in front at some sizes passed it, as
long as other sizes met every layout the reach check asks for. Nothing in
front now passes only where the document has no padding to move, which the
reach check asks for at the smallest size, or where the share wants none.
A second canary holds a document nothing cuts, all of its padding behind,
to a cut at its half, and requires it to fail.
The changelog entry names the second cut that keeps every page: one that
keeps ten billion bytes or more, past which the cross reference table's ten
digits cannot point.
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What changes
--damage truncatenow cuts the pages of a PDF by the percentage asked for. Before, a PDF kept all of its padding in a comment behind the trailer, so a cut of any share took only padding and every page was left - a 1 MiB PDF cut by 90% still opened whole.A document a damage will cut splits that comment around its objects:
%PDF-x.yand the binary comment line), in front of the first object,startxrefand%%EOF.The share in front is the one that makes the cut keep the same share of the objects as of the whole file. Every offset in the cross reference table counts the comment in front. Each offset is ten digits (ISO 32000-1 section 7.5.4), so the table keeps its length whatever stands in front, and only the number after
startxrefgrows - a digit at a power of ten, which the padding behind gives up. Each side of the comment is either empty or at least two bytes. When the exact share would leave one byte behind, the cut takes a byte more of the objects, and wherestartxrefgains a digit it may keep a byte more. Objects stop where ten digits do, at 9 999 999 999 B, so a cut that keeps 10 billion bytes or more keeps every object, and one a few kilobytes short of that keeps more than the share.Documents nothing cuts keep their bytes.
Measured
main: 24 of 24 the same (default,pages=3,orientation=landscape, 4 KiB-10 MiB, with and without the label). Cut files change bytes, with no new refusals.tfg generate --format pdf --size 64kb --set pages=3 --damage truncate:missing=50keeps 4 537 of 9 074 B of objects.pdftotextrefuses the file,mutool draw -F txtgives back the beginning of the document.Limits
%%EOF(about 200 B against 41 B at 1% of 4 KiB). All the padding then goes in front, the cut falls in the end, every page is kept, and the manifest saysin: end. The share guard accepts this because ISO 32000-1 section 7.5 puts the table and the trailer after the body and the end of file marker last.Guards
internal/oracle/layout.pytakes an ASCII comment block between the header lines and the first object as padding, so the map guard holds the new layout to the file's structure.TestAPDFLaidOutForACutComesToEverySizeAndItsOffsetsLand: consecutive sizes across the digitstartxrefgains, across where the padding behind runs out, and up from the smallest size. For each it checks the length, that every offset in the table lands on its object, and the share to the byte, and it asserts it met every layout (all in front with a four and a five digitstartxref, a few bytes behind at the digit, the exact share, a byte more in front). It also plans a 20 GiB document without writing it and checks the objects end at 9 999 999 999 B. Canary: a table with one offset a byte off must fail.front + 1candidate, the length ofstartxrefcounted without the comment in front, and no ten digit limit (objects up to 19 327 353 153 B).After the review
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