vello_cpu keeps every path's coverage (alpha) values in one buffer until
the scene is rasterized, and a strip packs its index into that buffer in
31 bits; Strip::new asserts it fits. A page that painted one form 2^22
times over (22 nested forms, each drawing the next twice) grew the
buffer past 2^31 values at about 7 GB and panicked, and the page failed.
- vello_common (2): StripStorage::room_for_path{,_within} says whether
one more path's coverage, at most the whole surface counted twice,
still fits below that limit or a smaller one.
- vello_cpu (1): the single-threaded dispatcher leaves out fills,
strokes, fast rectangles and layer clips once there is no room,
records it (RenderContext::coverage_full) and can be kept to fewer
values (set_max_coverage).
- hayro (31): RenderSettings::max_coverage passes that limit down, and
a page whose paths were left out reports
InterpreterWarning::ContentTruncated, which PdfCraft already shows as
content skipped past the page's safety budget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pq7HyDBXygTf7jcqdsjcfn
hayro
A crate for rendering PDF files.
This crate allows you to render pages of a PDF file into bitmaps. It is supposed to be relatively lightweight, since we do not have any dependencies on the GPU. All the rendering happens on the CPU.
The ultimate goal of this crate is to be a feature-complete and performant PDF rasterizer.
With that said, we are currently still very far away from reaching that goal: So far, no effort
has been put into performance optimizations, as we are still working on implementing missing features.
However, this crate is currently the most comprehensive and feature-complete
implementation of a PDF rasterizer in pure Rust. This claim is supported by the fact that we currently
include over 1000 PDF files in our regression test suite. The majority of those have been scraped
from the pdf.js and PDFBOX test suites and therefore represent a very large and diverse sample
of PDF files.
As mentioned, there are still some serious limitations, including lack of support for encrypted/password-protected PDF files, blending and isolation, knockout groups as well as a range of smaller features such as color key masking. But you should be able to render the vast majority of PDF files without too many issues.
Safety
This crate forbids unsafe code via a crate-level attribute.
Examples
For usage examples, see the example in the GitHub repository.
Cargo features
This crate has one optional feature:
embed-fonts: See the description ofhayro-interpretfor more information.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.