class PDF::Reader::XRef
is read only.
the Enumerable mixin. The key difference is no []= method - the hash
The class behaves much like a standard Ruby hash, including the use of
desired object (PDF objects embedded in an object stream)
* a PDF::Reader::Reference instance that points to a stream that contains the
* a byte offset where the object starts (regular PDF objects)
Hash keys are object ids, values are either:
file.
object needs to be found, the Xref table is used to find where it is stored in the
An Xref table is a map of object identifiers and byte offsets. Any time a particular
hash-like object.
An internal PDF::Reader class that represents the XRef table in a PDF file as a
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def [](ref)
returns the byte offset for the specified PDF object.
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def [](ref) @xref[ref.id][ref.gen] rescue raise InvalidObjectError, "Object #{ref.id}, Generation #{ref.gen} is invalid" end
def calc_junk_offset(io)
Checks up to 50 chars into the file, returns nil if no PDF data detected.
in the real world.
should always be 0, but all sort of crazy junk is prefixed to PDF files
Returns the offset of the PDF document in the +stream+. In theory this
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def calc_junk_offset(io) io.rewind offset = io.pos until (c = io.readchar) == '%' || c == 37 || offset > 50 offset += 1 end io.rewind offset < 50 ? offset : nil rescue EOFError return nil end
def each(&block)
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def each(&block) ids = @xref.keys.sort ids.each do |id| gen = @xref[id].keys.sort[-1] yield PDF::Reader::Reference.new(id, gen) end end
def initialize(io)
io - must be an IO object, generally either a file or a StringIO
create a new Xref table based on the contents of the supplied io object
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def initialize(io) @io = io @junk_offset = calc_junk_offset(io) || 0 @xref = {} @trailer = load_offsets end
def load_offsets(offset = nil)
or load_xref_stream() based on what we find there.
After seeking to the offset, processing is handed of to either load_xref_table()
default offset will be located and used.
If offset is specified the table will be loaded from there, otherwise the
Read a xref table from the underlying buffer.
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def load_offsets(offset = nil) offset ||= new_buffer.find_first_xref_offset offset += @junk_offset buf = new_buffer(offset) tok_one = buf.token return load_xref_table(buf) if tok_one == "xref" || tok_one == "ref" tok_two = buf.token tok_three = buf.token if tok_one.to_i >= 0 && tok_two.to_i >= 0 && tok_three == "obj" buf = new_buffer(offset) stream = PDF::Reader::Parser.new(buf).object(tok_one.to_i, tok_two.to_i) return load_xref_stream(stream) end raise PDF::Reader::MalformedPDFError, "xref table not found at offset #{offset} (#{tok_one} != xref)" end
def load_xref_stream(stream)
Read an XRef stream from the underlying buffer instead of a traditional xref table.
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def load_xref_stream(stream) unless stream.is_a?(PDF::Reader::Stream) && stream.hash[:Type] == :XRef raise PDF::Reader::MalformedPDFError, "xref stream not found when expected" end trailer = Hash[stream.hash.select { |key, value| [:Size, :Prev, :Root, :Encrypt, :Info, :ID].include?(key) }] widths = stream.hash[:W] entry_length = widths.inject(0) { |s, w| s + w } raw_data = StringIO.new(stream.unfiltered_data) if stream.hash[:Index] index = stream.hash[:Index] else index = [0, stream.hash[:Size]] end index.each_slice(2) do |start_id, size| obj_ids = (start_id..(start_id+(size-1))) obj_ids.each do |objid| entry = raw_data.read(entry_length) || "" f1 = unpack_bytes(entry[0,widths[0]]) f2 = unpack_bytes(entry[widths[0],widths[1]]) f3 = unpack_bytes(entry[widths[0]+widths[1],widths[2]]) if f1 == 1 && f2 > 0 store(objid, f3, f2 + @junk_offset) elsif f1 == 2 && f2 > 0 store(objid, 0, PDF::Reader::Reference.new(f2, 0)) end end end load_offsets(trailer[:Prev].to_i) if trailer.has_key?(:Prev) trailer end
def load_xref_table(buf)
Assumes the underlying buffer is positioned at the start of a traditional
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def load_xref_table(buf) params = [] while !params.include?("trailer") && !params.include?(nil) if params.size == 2 objid, count = params[0].to_i, params[1].to_i count.times do offset = buf.token.to_i generation = buf.token.to_i state = buf.token store(objid, generation, offset + @junk_offset) if state == "n" && offset > 0 objid += 1 params.clear end end params << buf.token end trailer = Parser.new(buf, self).parse_token unless trailer.kind_of?(Hash) raise MalformedPDFError, "PDF malformed, trailer should be a dictionary" end load_offsets(trailer[:XRefStm]) if trailer.has_key?(:XRefStm) load_offsets(trailer[:Prev].to_i) if trailer.has_key?(:Prev) trailer end
def new_buffer(offset = 0)
at the same time without worrying about clearing the buffers contents.
We create multiple buffers so we can be tokenising multiple sections of the file
Wrap the io stream we're working with in a buffer that can tokenise it for us.
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def new_buffer(offset = 0) PDF::Reader::Buffer.new(@io, :seek => offset) end
def size
return the number of objects in this file. Objects with multiple generations are
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def size @xref.size end
def store(id, gen, offset)
Stores an offset value for a particular PDF object ID and revision number
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def store(id, gen, offset) (@xref[id] ||= {})[gen] ||= offset end
def unpack_bytes(bytes)
bytes they need to be converted to an int in different ways.
XRef streams pack info into integers 1-N bytes wide. Depending on the number of
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def unpack_bytes(bytes) if bytes.to_s.size == 0 0 elsif bytes.size == 1 bytes.unpack("C")[0] elsif bytes.size == 2 bytes.unpack("n")[0] elsif bytes.size == 3 ("\x00" + bytes).unpack("N")[0] elsif bytes.size == 4 bytes.unpack("N")[0] else raise UnsupportedFeatureError, "Unable to unpack xref stream entries with more than 4 bytes" end end