M2.6: a run pays for what a stream costs, not what it holds

Four ways round the allowance, each measured by a review of hostile input:

A Flate stream read as zlib that fails at once, and then as raw deflate that
decodes everything before failing, gave nothing back and so was charged
nothing, here and in DecodeBudget: 110 s for a 387 KB file, all decoded. What
the retry decoded now counts, though the data is still dropped as it was.

Fax and 1-bit Flate images paid by the byte for work done by the pixel: 19
bytes can be a blank page of 100 million pixels, about a second each. Every
image decoded here now pays for its pixels first, as JBIG2 already did.

A JPEG paid nothing, and what one asks for doesn't grow with its length: 156
bytes declared 80 megapixels, 72 s for an 8 KB file. A JPEG pays for its
samples before it is decoded, in Optimize and in an export that has to decode
one for its mask.

Merging fragments paid for reading strips and not for the picture it built:
393 s for 1,154 bytes. It pays for the picture before allocating it.

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

parity/acrobat-features.toml

@@ -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 included and JPEG data aside (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 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."
 
 [[feature]]
 id = "optimize.only-if-smaller"