- When adding page dict candidates to the lookup tree, also initiate fetching them from xref, so if they are not yet loaded at all, the XHR will be sent
- Only at the top level - assume that if there is a /Pages tree, it is sensibly structured and the number of requests won't be too bad
- We can then await on the cached Promise without making the requests pipeline
- This has a significant performance improvement for load-on-demand (i.e. with auto-fetch turned off) when a PDF has a large number of pages in the top level /Pages collection, and those pages are spread through a file, so every candidate needs to be fetched separately
- PDFs with many pages where each page is a big image and all the pages are at the top level are quite a common output for digitisation programmes
- I would have liked to do something like "if it's the top level collection and page count = number of kids, then just fetch that page without traversing the tree" but unfortunately I agree with comments on #8088 that there is no good general solution to allow for /Pages nodes with empty /Kids arrays
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