Currently we have no less than three different, but very similar, factories for reading built-in CMap files, standard font files, and wasm files on the main-thread.[1]
These factories were added at different points in time, since I cannot imagine that we'd add essentially three copies of the same code otherwise.
Nowadays these factories are often not even used[2], since worker-thread fetching is used whenever possible to improve performance. In particular, they will *only* be used when either:
- The PDF.js library runs in Node.js environments.
- The user manually sets `useWorkerFetch = false` when calling `getDocument`.
- The user provides custom `CMapReaderFactory`, `StandardFontDataFactory`, and/or `WasmFactory` instances when calling `getDocument`.
By replacing these factories with *a single* new `BinaryDataFactory` factory/option the number of `getDocument` options are thus reduced, which cannot hurt.
This also reduces the total bundle-size of the Firefox PDF Viewer a little bit, and it slightly reduces the number of import maps that need to be maintained.
*Please note:* For users that provide custom `CMapReaderFactory`, `StandardFontDataFactory`, and `WasmFactory` instances when calling `getDocument` this will be a breaking change, however it's unlikely that (many) such users exist.
(The *internal* format data-format of `CMapReaderFactory` was changed in PR 18951, and there hasn't been a single question/complaint about it in well over a year.)
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[1] Any new functionality could easily lead to more such factories being added in the future, which wouldn't be great.
[2] Note that the Firefox PDF Viewer no longer use these factories, since it "forcibly" sets `useWorkerFetch = true` during building.
The `BaseCMapReaderFactory`, `BaseStandardFontDataFactory`, and `BaseWasmFactory` classes are all very similar, and the only difference is really in their respective `fetch` methods.
By have the worker-thread "compute" the complete `filename` it's possible to simplify the `BaseCMapReaderFactory.prototype.fetch` method, which will allow future improvements to all of these classes.
A couple of things to note:
- This code is unused, and it's not even bundled, in the Firefox PDF Viewer.
- In browsers it's unused by default, and worker-thread fetching will always be used when possible since that's more efficient.
*Please note:* For users that provide a custom `CMapReaderFactory` instance when calling `getDocument` this could be a breaking change, however it's unlikely that any such users exist.
(The *internal* format of this data was changed previously in PR 18951, and there hasn't been a single question/complaint about it in well over a year.)
Given that these classes are only used from the "FetchBinaryData" message handler, the `name`/`filename` parameters should never actually be missing and if they are that's a bug elsewhere in the code-base.
Furthermore a missing `name`/`filename` parameter would result in a "nonsense" URL and the actual data fetching would then fail instead, hence keeping this old validation code just doesn't seem necessary.
After the changes in PR 20197 the code in the `TranslatedFont.prototype.send` method is not all that readable[1] given how it handles e.g. the `charProcOperatorList` data used with Type3 fonts.
Since this is the only spot where `Font.prototype.exportData` is used, it seems much simpler to move the `compileFontInfo` call there and *directly* return the intended data rather than messing with it after the fact.
Finally, while it doesn't really matter, the patch flips the order of the `charProcOperatorList` and `extra` properties throughout the code-base since the former is used with Type3 fonts while the latter (effectively) requires that debugging is enabled.
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[1] I had to re-read it twice, also looking at all the involved methods, in order to convince myself that it's actually correct.
