M2.6: a JPEG pays for being read before its header is

Reading a JPEG's header was free, and it can be most of the file: a mask of
1 MiB of tables that disagreed with its dictionary, shared by 4,000 images,
took 101 s with none refused, and that time grows as the square of the file.
A JPEG now pays 4 steps a byte before its tables are parsed, on every path, and
a mask's header is read once. That is a bound and not a speed-up: the same
file of 4,000 images fits the allowance and still takes 97 s, and 12,000 stop
after 10,233 in 250 s.

A chain that can't run pays nothing for its pixels, and the docs say what past
the allowance isn't counted: LZW streams the image pass didn't read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AmsdeUCdTaD72jkDw2pJKY

parity/acrobat-features.toml

@@ -7189,7 +7189,7 @@ status = "shipped"
 commands = ["export.all_images"]
 tools = ["doc_export_all_images"]
 evidence = ["crates/create/src/tests.rs::ccitt_fax_images_export_as_their_picture", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::group_3_ccitt_masks_and_parameters_by_reference_export_as_their_picture", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::images_export_as_jpeg_unchanged_and_others_as_png", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::indexed_and_one_bit_images_decode", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::jpeg_images_with_a_soft_mask_export_as_png_with_alpha", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::soft_masks_of_another_size_and_stencil_and_colour_key_masks_become_alpha", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::soft_mask_decode_ranges_become_exported_alpha", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::soft_mask_decode_maps_packed_and_jpeg_masks_before_resizing", "crates/automation/tests/it/automation.rs::exporting_all_images_through_tools", "crates/ui-egui/tests/it/export.rs::export_dialogs_write_images_and_text", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::lossless_decode_maps_each_component_before_colour_conversion", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::lossless_indexed_decode_rounds_in_index_units_then_clamps", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::jbig2_images_export_as_their_picture", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::jbig2_globals_are_decoded_within_a_limit_of_their_own", "crates/automation/tests/it/automation.rs::doc_optimize_stores_black_and_white_images_as_jbig2", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::symbol_coded_jbig2_images_export_as_their_picture", "crates/create/src/tests.rs::jbig2_images_behind_another_filter_export_as_their_picture"]
-notes = "each image once (page resources and nested forms), up to what one export may decode of JBIG2 and hold of files (2 GiB or twice the document), images past that left out with the reason; JPEG unchanged unless it has transparency, others PNG (gray/RGB/CMYK/ICC/Indexed, 1–16 bpc, stencil masks); transparency as PNG alpha: /SMask (scaled to the image size, /Matte un-blended), stencil /Mask and colour-key /Mask, JPEG images included (#645); JPX masks are left out (image exported opaque); JPX images and separations reported as skipped; minimum size filter. Lossless images apply per-component Decode; Indexed values round and clip before palette lookup. Missing, null or malformed Decode arrays keep the default mapping. Soft-mask Decode intervals preserve opacity before resizing, including indirect arrays and endpoints. Still limited: 16-bit samples use high bytes; general JPEG image Decode, ICC transforms, and calibrated colors remain unsupported. CCITT fax images (Group 3 and 4, with their /DecodeParms, behind other filters too) export as their picture, masks included; byte-aligned Group 3 is read by the end-of-line codes when the data starts with one and on bytes otherwise, and one cut short is reported. Still limited: byte-aligned Group 3 with codes but none before the first row (not as T.4 sends them) is reported, or at /K 0 may export wrong. JBIG2 images (with the /JBIG2Globals of their own /DecodeParms entry, within 32 MiB, behind other filters too) export as their picture, masks included; the JBIG2 page has to be the image's size (the renderer draws the whole page into the image)."
+notes = "each image once (page resources and nested forms), up to what one export may decode and hold of files (2 GiB or twice the document), images past that left out with the reason; JPEG unchanged unless it has transparency, others PNG (gray/RGB/CMYK/ICC/Indexed, 1–16 bpc, stencil masks); transparency as PNG alpha: /SMask (scaled to the image size, /Matte un-blended), stencil /Mask and colour-key /Mask, JPEG images included (#645); JPX masks are left out (image exported opaque); JPX images and separations reported as skipped; minimum size filter. Lossless images apply per-component Decode; Indexed values round and clip before palette lookup. Missing, null or malformed Decode arrays keep the default mapping. Soft-mask Decode intervals preserve opacity before resizing, including indirect arrays and endpoints. Still limited: 16-bit samples use high bytes; general JPEG image Decode, ICC transforms, and calibrated colors remain unsupported. CCITT fax images (Group 3 and 4, with their /DecodeParms, behind other filters too) export as their picture, masks included; byte-aligned Group 3 is read by the end-of-line codes when the data starts with one and on bytes otherwise, and one cut short is reported. Still limited: byte-aligned Group 3 with codes but none before the first row (not as T.4 sends them) is reported, or at /K 0 may export wrong. JBIG2 images (with the /JBIG2Globals of their own /DecodeParms entry, within 32 MiB, behind other filters too) export as their picture, masks included; the JBIG2 page has to be the image's size (the renderer draws the whole page into the image)."
 
 [[feature]]
 id = "create.export-html"
@@ -7409,7 +7409,7 @@ status = "partial"
 commands = ["optimize.advanced", "optimize.reduce"]
 tools = ["doc_optimize", "doc_reduce"]
 evidence = ["crates/optimize/src/images.rs::flate_images_past_the_runs_allowance_stay_as_they_are", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::eight_bit_black_and_white_images_become_one_bit", "crates/filters/src/ccitt.rs::bitmaps_round_trip", "crates/filters/src/ccitt.rs::a_page_of_text_like_marks_round_trips_and_shrinks", "crates/filters/src/ccitt.rs::what_it_cannot_encode_is_an_error", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::black_and_white_images_become_ccitt_group_4", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::group_3_fax_images_become_group_4", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::rgb_and_two_colour_indexed_black_and_white_images_become_one_bit", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::black_and_white_rgb_used_beyond_the_page_content_read_stays_rgb", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::black_and_white_rgb_drawn_only_where_the_optimizer_reads_becomes_grey", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::black_and_white_rgb_in_resources_its_page_tree_and_a_form_share_becomes_grey", "crates/automation/tests/it/automation.rs::doc_optimize_stores_black_and_white_images_as_ccitt_group_4", "crates/ui-egui/tests/it/create.rs::the_pdf_optimizer_dialog_saves_an_optimized_copy", "crates/filters/src/mq.rs::the_annex_h_test_sequence_encodes_to_its_bytes", "crates/filters/src/jbig2.rs::bitmaps_round_trip", "crates/filters/src/jbig2.rs::a_page_of_text_like_marks_round_trips_and_shrinks", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::black_and_white_images_become_jbig2", "crates/automation/tests/it/automation.rs::doc_optimize_stores_black_and_white_images_as_jbig2", "crates/filters/src/jbig2/symbols.rs::repeated_marks_are_stored_once", "crates/filters/src/jbig2/symbols.rs::scattered_marks_round_trip", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::rendered_text_becomes_jbig2_symbols", "crates/optimize/tests/optimize.rs::jbig2_scans_are_averaged_and_stored_again", "crates/optimize/src/images.rs::jbig2_images_past_the_runs_allowance_stay_as_they_are"]
-notes = "All of a run's images share one allowance of decoding, filters, decoders and pixels alike (about 1,000 scanned pages' worth, more for a longer file); those past it stay as they are and are counted in the report, which doc_optimize returns and the panel doesn't show yet. CCITT Group 4, lossless: PDF Optimizer ▸ Images ▸ Monochrome Images (on by default, so Reduce File Size does it too; doc_optimize mono) stores a 1-bit image of one colour component (grey, indexed, a separation) or an image mask, kept with no filter or general-purpose ones, as Group 4 when that is smaller as stored; the samples decode to the same bits, so colour space, decode array and masks stay. Packed to one bit first, then stored the same way (colour-key masks aside): eight-bit grey of only black and white, eight-bit DeviceRGB of only black and white (as DeviceGray; calibrated RGB, RGB with a profile, RGB drawn or listed where /DefaultGray or /DefaultRGB is in force or referred to from anywhere but the page and form resources read (an annotation's appearance or a pattern drawing it, directly or through resources or a form shared with a page; another image's /Alternates), and RGB whose soft mask has a /Matte aside), and an indexed image of 2, 4 or 8 bits that uses only palette entries 0 and 1 (keeping its palette), unless the grey or colour settings make it smaller still, as they can a dithered scan downsampled to JPEG, its soft mask counted. Group 4 wins on scans; on clean computer-drawn 1-bit art Flate can be smaller, and the image then stays. Group 3 fax images are stored again as Group 4 when that is smaller (damaged Group 3 with end-of-line codes as the decoder recovers it, as it reports no damage there; byte-aligned Group 3 with end-of-line codes but none before the first row, not as T.4 sends them, as PdfCraft draws it, which at /K 0 may be other rows than were coded). CCITT fax images are decoded to be downsampled (optimize.downsample-images), and a resampled image is stored as Group 4 or 1-bit Flate, whichever is smaller. Lossless JBIG2 with bounded exact-copy symbol coding is available too, with image export; lossy JBIG2 remains unsupported. JBIG2 images are read too: averaged like any (under Retain stored as JBIG2 again), and, not resampled, stored again as the compression asks when that is smaller (as JBIG2 symbols where its own coding is a generic region, say); a symbol-coded scan, averaged, loses its exact repeats and is often larger, and then stays as it is; one whose JBIG2 page isn't its size is left alone. Not yet: inline images, soft masks and /Mask images, Group 4 for rows wider than 32,767 samples."
+notes = "All of a run's images share one allowance of decoding, filters, decoders and pixels alike (about 1,000 scanned pages' worth, more for a longer file); those past it stay as they are, those the image pass read being counted in the report, which doc_optimize and doc_reduce return and the panel doesn't show yet. CCITT Group 4, lossless: PDF Optimizer ▸ Images ▸ Monochrome Images (on by default, so Reduce File Size does it too; doc_optimize mono) stores a 1-bit image of one colour component (grey, indexed, a separation) or an image mask, kept with no filter or general-purpose ones, as Group 4 when that is smaller as stored; the samples decode to the same bits, so colour space, decode array and masks stay. Packed to one bit first, then stored the same way (colour-key masks aside): eight-bit grey of only black and white, eight-bit DeviceRGB of only black and white (as DeviceGray; calibrated RGB, RGB with a profile, RGB drawn or listed where /DefaultGray or /DefaultRGB is in force or referred to from anywhere but the page and form resources read (an annotation's appearance or a pattern drawing it, directly or through resources or a form shared with a page; another image's /Alternates), and RGB whose soft mask has a /Matte aside), and an indexed image of 2, 4 or 8 bits that uses only palette entries 0 and 1 (keeping its palette), unless the grey or colour settings make it smaller still, as they can a dithered scan downsampled to JPEG, its soft mask counted. Group 4 wins on scans; on clean computer-drawn 1-bit art Flate can be smaller, and the image then stays. Group 3 fax images are stored again as Group 4 when that is smaller (damaged Group 3 with end-of-line codes as the decoder recovers it, as it reports no damage there; byte-aligned Group 3 with end-of-line codes but none before the first row, not as T.4 sends them, as PdfCraft draws it, which at /K 0 may be other rows than were coded). CCITT fax images are decoded to be downsampled (optimize.downsample-images), and a resampled image is stored as Group 4 or 1-bit Flate, whichever is smaller. Lossless JBIG2 with bounded exact-copy symbol coding is available too, with image export; lossy JBIG2 remains unsupported. JBIG2 images are read too: averaged like any (under Retain stored as JBIG2 again), and, not resampled, stored again as the compression asks when that is smaller (as JBIG2 symbols where its own coding is a generic region, say); a symbol-coded scan, averaged, loses its exact repeats and is often larger, and then stays as it is; one whose JBIG2 page isn't its size is left alone. Not yet: inline images, soft masks and /Mask images, Group 4 for rows wider than 32,767 samples."
 
 [[feature]]
 id = "optimize.only-if-smaller"