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What this changes

Part of #3432. Part of #1416.

The series

Goal. Make the dynamic XFA form in #3432 open with its layout and be usable: section bars and input boxes, section titles, the saved language and drop-down items, readable captions, product check boxes and drop-downs that show their sections, language switching, and saving and reopening.

Each PR is based on main, is independent of the others, and can be reviewed and merged in any order, except where the table says it builds on another.

PR	What it changes	Status	What it gives if merged alone
#4604	A script that lays the form out again refreshes the pages	Open, approved	Forms whose scripts add pages keep the new pages and can be saved
#4608	Repeating rows past 50; tables in positioned containers	Open	Long tables lay out all their rows
#4662 Prototypes	use/usehref prototypes	Open	Style-sheet borders, fills and sizes; check boxes beside their labels
#4664 Caption font (this PR)	A caption without a font of its own takes its field's	Open	Captions in their field's font instead of Courier
Script control flow	execEvent, the choice-list methods, form:ready on opening	Planned; builds on #4369	Check boxes and drop-downs that show their sections work
Script objects	<variables>, in a few parts: the core with size limits, names that shadow host objects, state kept between scripts	Planned; builds on script control flow	Language switching, and other functions kept in <variables>
Script caption writes	Scripts that set a caption	Planned; independent	Captions a script rewrites (the language switch rewrites thousands) are kept, saved and reopened
Event-script size limit	A small change to the limit	Planned; independent	Large real event scripts run instead of being refused

The full behaviour of the form in #3432 needs all of them together. The script limits will be proposed with data measured on 78 real dynamic forms.

This PR

The need. On the form in #3432, some labels show in a monospaced face: "Language", "MR customer:", "Inquiry/order no.:" and "Height above zero (m) up to". Each of these fields sets <font typeface="Arial Unicode MS" …/>, and its caption sets no font. PdfCraft drew such a caption in the font around the field. Nothing above the field names a font, so that was the 10pt Courier default. Captions that set their own font, such as "Tap changer", were already right.

The basis. XFA 3.3, chapter 2, "Formatting Text That Appears as Fixed or Variable Content" (p. 43). Caption text is fixed content, and fixed or variable content text "is formatted based on the containing element's paragraph-formatting and font-formatting properties, which may themselves be inherited from an ancestor container". The caption element (p. 643) has an optional font. Without one, its text takes the font of the container around it: the field.

The change (crates/xfa/src/layout.rs, draw_field)

• A field's caption is drawn in the field's font, with whatever the caption's own <font> names on top. A caption font that gives only a size keeps the field's typeface.
• The caption's room (its width when it has no reserve, its height above or below, and its height beside the box) is worked out in the same font and in the paragraph around the field, the one it is drawn in, so measuring and drawing agree.
• A button's caption face follows the same rule, as its width was already measured.
• A field caption's paragraph is unchanged: it is still the one around the field. The same sentence covers paragraphs. However, a field's paragraph often centres its value (hAlign="center" on "Language"), and inheriting it would move captions. That needs evidence from real forms first.

How you verified it

On main at 71b47b5, branch head c49f193:

• cargo fmt --check
• clippy with -D warnings on pdfcraft-xfa (--all-targets)
• tests pass on pdfcraft-xfa (130 passed, 2 of them new, 0 failed) and the XFA tests of pdfcraft-engine (47 passed, 0 failed)
• cargo check --workspace --all-targets (at ea367d8; c49f193 changes only private functions of pdfcraft-xfa)
• cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets and cargo xtask parity

Test (synthetic fixture). a_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields covers three fields set in 8pt Arial:

• a caption with no font is drawn in Helvetica 8pt;
• a caption with its own Times 11pt keeps it;
• a caption that sets only 12pt is drawn in Helvetica 12pt.

Before the fix it failed, drawing the first and third in Courier: [("plain:", Courier, 10.0), ("own:", Times, 11.0), ("sized:", Courier, 12.0)].

Re-checked on 418ac6a with the caption's font taken from around the field again: the test fails with the same three faces.

a_caption_is_measured_in_the_font_and_paragraph_it_is_drawn_in checks that a caption's room is measured in the paragraph it is drawn in: a field paragraph with spaceAbove under a top caption, and one with lineHeight beside a left caption, give the caption no extra room. With the caption measured in the field's own paragraph again it fails: the top caption takes 52.1pt instead of one 14pt line, and the field beside the left caption is 54pt tall instead of its box's height.

Font before reserve. The field's font is resolved before the caption's room is worked out: in draw_field (layout/field.rs), fctx = ctx.child(&f.common) comes before caption_reserve(f, inner.w, &fctx, &ctx.para); in measure (layout/measure.rs), ctx.with_som(c, 0) applies the field's font before field_height calls caption_reserve. A caption without a reserve takes "just enough to hold the content of the caption" (XFA 3.3, the caption's reserve, pp. 644–645), so its room depends on that font. Two tests added at 536ab54:

• a_caption_without_a_font_or_a_reserve_takes_room_in_its_fields_font: a 5in field in 24pt and in 6pt Arial, its left caption "Name:" with no font and no reserve. The box starts after the caption's text width in the field's font plus 2pt (four times as much at 24pt as at 6pt, and not the 10pt Courier default's), and a top caption takes one line of the field's font. With draw_field given the context around the field for caption_reserve (the reserve worked out before the field's font is applied) it fails at the room check. With the change reverted it fails: the caption is drawn in Courier 10pt.
• a_caption_font_naming_only_a_size_takes_the_fields_weight_style_and_family: a bold italic Times 8pt field whose caption font names only 12pt: the caption is drawn in bold italic Times 12pt. With the change reverted it is plain Courier 12pt.

At 536ab54: cargo fmt --check, clippy with -D warnings on pdfcraft-xfa (--all-targets), and cargo test -p pdfcraft-xfa (134 passed, 0 failed).

Synthetic forms. Opened with pdfcraft-cli built from main and from this branch alone:

Form	main	This PR
Two fields in Helvetica 8 and Courier 16, captions without a font	both captions in Courier 10	Helvetica 8 and Courier 16, as their fields
A caption with its own Courier Bold 18	Courier Bold 18	unchanged (identical image)
A caption font that sets only bold and italic, in a Courier 14 field	Courier Bold Italic 10	Courier Bold Italic 14

Real forms. Of 78 real dynamic XFA forms we measured (public government, university and company forms, plus samples attached to issues), 66 have field captions that name no font inside fields that do: 2,846 such captions, counted in the templates as written. Ten of the 78 were opened with main and with this branch alone. All ten keep their page and field counts; on four of them no text is drawn in the Courier default any more.

On the form in #3432. Checked locally only; the file is not committed. With pdfcraft-cli render, "Language", "MR customer:", "Inquiry/order no.:", "Supply" and "Height above zero (m) up to" are drawn in Helvetica, the face Arial maps to, at their fields' sizes. No label on pages 1 and 3 is monospaced.

On #1416. On the Romanian D390 form there, labels such as "Versiuni" and "DECLARATIE RECTIFICATIVA" are now drawn in their fields' font instead of Courier. That is one part of #1416; its other parts (Romanian diacritics, images, signature fields) have other causes and are not touched here.

Before and after

A synthetic test form (not committed) with two fields set in Helvetica 8 and Courier 16 whose captions name no font, next to reference text in the expected faces: main on the left, this PR on the right.

A synthetic test form whose caption font sets only bold and italic inside a Courier 14 field: main draws it at the 10pt default, this PR at the field's 14pt.

Never-crash

• No new unwrap/expect/panic!/unreachable!/todo! outside tests
• No input-derived indexing
• No unsafe
• No crash fixed here

Provenance

• No assets
• No font files
• No GPL/AGPL code
• Behaviour from XFA 3.3, "Formatting Text That Appears as Fixed or Variable Content" (p. 43), and the caption element. No other implementation read.

Parity and reach

• form.xfa-dynamic notes and evidence, and crates/xfa/README.md
• Headless: page_render and pdfcraft-cli render show it

Anything a reviewer should look at first

• Merge order. This PR and the prototypes PR (M12: an XFA template's use/usehref prototypes are resolved before it is parsed (form.xfa-dynamic)  #4662) both edit the form.xfa-dynamic parity entry, so whichever merges second keeps both additions. Whichever merges first, I'll rebase the other the same day.
• Paragraph inheritance is left as it was for field captions (see above). The spec sentence covers it too, so this is a known gap rather than a decision.
• Caption sizes change on such forms. A caption without a font now takes the field's size as well as its typeface: 8pt on the form in Interactive PDF form renders incorrectly and cannot be filled; works in Adobe Acrobat Reader #3432, where it was the 10pt default.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • XFA field captions now use the field’s font when no caption font is specified, and inherit unspecified font properties when only some are set.
  • Caption and button-caption measurements now account for the field’s font and surrounding paragraph, improving layout consistency for captions beside or above/below fields.
  • Caption space for growing text fields is measured using the surrounding paragraph.
• Documentation
  • Updated XFA layout guidance to describe caption font inheritance and paragraph behavior.

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XFA caption text and button faces now derive fonts from the field context. Caption measurement uses the paragraph surrounding the field for width, height, and reserved-space calculations.

Changes: XFA caption layout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Field-derived caption fonts crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs, crates/xfa/src/tests.rs	Caption text and button faces derive their fonts from the field context. Tests cover inherited font properties for captions and buttons.
Paragraph-aware caption measurement crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs, crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs, crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, crates/xfa/README.md, parity/acrobat-features.toml	Caption width, height, and reserved-space calculations use the surrounding paragraph with caption paragraph properties applied. Tests and documentation describe these behaviors.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• storytold/pdfcraft#5108: The issue reports incorrect side-caption space measurement; this change updates caption measurement to use the surrounding paragraph.
• storytold/pdfcraft#1416: The issue reports XFA font misrendering and text outside field bounds; this change updates caption font inheritance and caption sizing.

Suggested reviewers: erickaden, aiongg

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 536ab

Captions inherit their field fonts; no merge-blocking regression was established in the reviewed paths.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 1f6bd

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: crates, parity

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• observed — crates (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — parity (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/xfa/README.md: The layout description adds caption formatting behavior: captions inherit the field font when they have none, partially specified caption fonts inherit remaining properties, and the field caption retains the paragraph around the field.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs: Caption reservation now receives the field context and parent paragraph separately; previously it received only the parent context.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs: Caption text now applies its font settings to the field-context font instead of the parent-context font.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs: A button caption’s face now derives from the field-context font instead of the parent-context font.

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crates/xfa/src/tests.rs: 1

3231-3231: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test automatic caption sizing with an unreserved caption.

reserve="2in" makes caption_reserve use the fixed value instead of measuring the caption with the inherited font. The test therefore checks caption font selection during drawing, but not font-dependent caption geometry. Add an unreserved caption and assert its caption or widget geometry.

Fixed-reserve captions still measure text for fitting in draw_value_text, but that is separate from automatic reserve calculation.

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Update the caption-sizing test using the field XML fixture to omit the fixed
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On the nitpick about tests.rs line 3231 (testing an unreserved caption): covered since c49f193. a_caption_is_measured_in_the_font_and_paragraph_it_is_drawn_in gives a 14pt Arial field a top caption with no reserve, so its room is measured rather than fixed. It asserts that the caption takes exactly one 14pt line above the box, and that the field ends where its box does. With the caption measured in the surrounding font or paragraph instead, it fails (52.1 instead of one 14pt line). The older reserve="2in" test still checks which font the caption is drawn in.

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It is one of two small, independent PRs that start a series aimed at making dynamic XFA forms like the one in #3432 work:

• M12: an XFA template's use/usehref prototypes are resolved before it is parsed (form.xfa-dynamic)  #4662: resolves use/usehref prototypes before the template is parsed (XFA 3.3 ch. 6).
• M12: an XFA caption without a font of its own uses its field's (form.xfa-dynamic)  #4664: a caption without a font of its own uses its field's (XFA 3.3 p. 43).

They touch different code and can be reviewed and merged in any order.

What comes next. I measured what real forms need before choosing the order: 367 public XFA forms (163 dynamic) from government, regulatory and everyday sources, plus the #3432 form. The next PRs, each with the forms that need it (2 and 3 are written and tested and are being rebased onto main; 1 and 4 are in progress):

1. JavaScript event scripts up to 1 MiB (from 256 KiB), for the template's own event scripts only. Three FDA eSTAR templates ([Bug Report] [PdfCraft] FDA eSTAR (dynamic XFA) does not expand sections after selecting Submission Type — stays at 3 pages / 12 fields #4019) carry exit scripts of up to 805 KB; every other surveyed form stays under 65 KB.
2. execEvent, choice-list methods (addItem, clearItems, boundItem, …) and form:ready: used by 69, 72 and many forms respectively. The form:ready part follows XFA: ready events run in the other viewer's order, and layout:ready again after a new layout #4527 and will be rebased on it.
3. Script objects (<variables> scripts) and caption writes: script objects are used by 126 forms. Canada's visitor-visa, study- and work-permit applications keep their drop-down lists in one of 507–527 KB.
4. Property objects (border, ui, validate, occur, …) and node methods (getElement, isPropertySpecified, …), covering every member the surveyed forms use. The read model is up as M12: XFA scripting object model (1/3): scripts read template properties as XFA 3.3 defines them #5010. ui.oneOfChild.className alone is read by 63 forms.

Each PR states its own limits with the measured distribution, headroom and worst case. Feedback on the order or the scope is welcome.

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crates/xfa/src/tests.rs: 2

3230-3261: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a mixed-posture caption fixture.

The current test covers partial inheritance for size only. It does not detect whether a caption that sets bold preserves a field's italic property. Add a fixture and assert both posture properties.

Suggested fix

@@
-        r#"<subform name="body" layout="tb" w="7.5in">{}{}{}</subform>"#,
+        r#"<subform name="body" layout="tb" w="7.5in">{}{}{}{}</subform>"#,
         field("plain", ""),
         field("own", r#"<font typeface="Times New Roman" size="11pt"/>"#),
-        field("sized", r#"<font size="12pt"/>"#)
+        field("sized", r#"<font size="12pt"/>"#),
+        r#"<field name="posture" w="5in" h="0.4in"><ui><textEdit/></ui><font typeface="Arial" size="8pt" posture="italic"/><caption reserve="2in"><font weight="bold"/><value><text>posture:</text></value></caption></field>"#
@@
-    let faces: Vec<(String, crate::text::Family, f64)> = form.pages[0]
+    let faces: Vec<(String, crate::text::Family, f64, bool, bool)> = form.pages[0]
         .items
         .iter()
-        .filter_map(|i| if let Item::Text(s) = i { Some((s.text.clone(), s.face.family, s.face.size)) } else { None })
+        .filter_map(|i| {
+            if let Item::Text(s) = i {
+                Some((s.text.clone(), s.face.family, s.face.size, s.face.bold, s.face.italic))
+            } else {
+                None
+            }
+        })
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-            ("plain:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 8.0),
-            ("own:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Times, 11.0),
-            ("sized:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 12.0)
+            ("plain:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 8.0, false, false),
+            ("own:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Times, 11.0, false, false),
+            ("sized:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 12.0, false, false),
+            ("posture:".to_string(), crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 8.0, true, true)

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Extend the `a_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields` test with a
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Add a regression test for a button caption that inherits its field's font.

The button branch at crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs:151 sets the caption face to the field font with the caption's own font applied on top. No test in crates/xfa/src/tests.rs exercises this branch for a caption with no font of its own:

• a_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields uses only <textEdit/> fields and checks drawn text items. It never reaches the button branch.
• The existing button tests at tests.rs:1962, 1982, and 1998 give each caption its own typeface and size. Inheriting the field font would not change their results.
• The button at tests.rs:2751 has a fontless caption, but that test asserts only the caption text.

A change that drops the field font for button captions would pass the current xfa tests. Add a button field with a field <font> and a caption with no font, and assert the face that the button is drawn in.

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Review comment at @crates/xfa/src/tests.rs around lines 3230 - 3261:
Extend the regression coverage around
a_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields with a button field that
has its own font and a caption with no font; assert the drawn caption text uses
the field’s font family and size, exercising the button layout branch.

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Review comments at @crates/xfa/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 3230-3261: Extend the
`a_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields` test with a caption that
sets `bold` while its field sets `italic`, and assert the resulting text retains
both posture properties. Update the collected text-face data and expected values
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- Around line 3230-3261: Extend the regression coverage around
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Added in 49dc612: a_button_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields lays out an Arial 8pt button whose caption names no font, and one naming only a size, and checks the face the button is drawn in. It fails when the button branch takes the face from the context outside the field (10pt Courier instead of Arial 8pt).

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crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs: 1

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Assert the automatic height for a fontless button caption.

The new test fixes the button height with h="20pt", so it bypasses field_height and the caption measurement at crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs:230. It checks only the widget face. Remove the fixed height and assert the widget height. The existing height test does not replace this coverage because its caption explicitly specifies Arial 8pt.

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-            r#"<field name="go" x="1in" y="0" w="100pt" h="20pt"><ui><button/></ui><font typeface="Arial" size="8pt"/><caption>{caption_font}<value><text>Go</text></value></caption></field>"#
+            r#"<field name="go" x="1in" y="0" w="100pt"><ui><button/></ui><font typeface="Arial" size="8pt"/><caption>{caption_font}<value><text>Go</text></value></caption></field>"#
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-        items.iter().find_map(|i| if let Item::Widget(w) = i { Some((w.face.family, w.face.size)) } else { None }).expect("the button")
+        items.iter().find_map(|i| if let Item::Widget(w) = i { Some((w.face.family, w.face.size, w.rect.h)) } else { None }).expect("the button")
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     assert_eq!(face(""), (crate::text::Family::Helvetica, 8.0));
+    assert!((face("").2 - text::line_height(8.0)).abs() < 0.05);

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Review comment at @crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs at line 230:
Update the fontless button-caption test to omit the fixed height so it exercises
automatic measurement through `field_height` and `text::measure_height`. Extend
the widget assertion to include its height and verify it matches the expected
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- Line 230: Update the fontless button-caption test to omit the fixed height so
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Done in 0b506de: the test leaves the button's h out, so it is measured from its caption, and checks the button is one line of the field's 8pt font tall (12pt for the caption that names only a size), besides the face it is drawn in.

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I read the diff: an XFA caption without a font of its own uses its field's (XFA 3.3 p. 43). The README states the rule ("a caption without a font of its own is drawn in its field's font, and one naming only some font properties takes the rest from it", citing "Formatting Text That Appears as Fixed or Variable Content", p. 43) and the field layout code changes the call to caption_reserve, which sizes the caption's reserve (the code is partly cut off). Inheritance of unspecified font properties from the enclosing field is how XFA defines it, and the page reference makes the change checkable. The reserve that is computed before the caption's font is known would use the wrong width, so the font resolution must happen before caption_reserve; I could not see the order in the hunk. A test with a caption that names only a size would show that weight and family come from the field. This author's other XFA layout PRs (pdfcraft#5109, #5124, #5153) touch the same layout files and will conflict if merged out of order. I have not run it, and no exact-head CI result exists for this head. Nothing was run.

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[mtlcl410]

Thanks for the review. The order matters for exactly the reason you give, and the hunk didn't show it, so here is where it happens, and two tests that pin it (536ab54).

The order. The field's font is resolved before the caption's room is worked out, on both paths:

• Drawing, draw_field in layout/field.rs: let fctx = ctx.child(&f.common); applies the field's font, and the next lines call self.caption_reserve(f, inner.w, &fctx, &ctx.para). The caption is then drawn in fctx.font.apply(&cap.font), the same font.
• Measuring, measure in layout/measure.rs: let ctx = ctx.with_som(c, 0); applies the field's font (through Ctx::child) before field_height, which calls caption_reserve with that context.

Inside caption_reserve, the caption's own font properties go on top of the field's (ctx.font.apply(&cap.font)) before the reserve is measured. When the caption has no reserve, its room is "just enough to hold the content of the caption" (XFA 3.3, the caption's reserve, pp. 644–645), so it depends on that font.

The tests.

• a_caption_without_a_font_or_a_reserve_takes_room_in_its_fields_font: a 5in field in 24pt Arial and one in 6pt Arial, each with a left caption "Name:" that has no font and no reserve. The box starts after the caption text's width in the field's font plus 2pt: four times as much room at 24pt as at 6pt, and neither is the room the 10pt Courier default would take. A top caption takes one line of the field's font. With draw_field given the context around the field for caption_reserve (the reserve worked out before the field's font is applied), it fails at the room check. With the PR's change reverted, it fails because the caption is drawn in Courier 10pt.
• a_caption_font_naming_only_a_size_takes_the_fields_weight_style_and_family, the test you suggested: a bold italic Times 8pt field whose caption font names only 12pt. The caption is drawn in bold italic Times 12pt. With the change reverted it is plain Courier 12pt.

cargo fmt --check, clippy with -D warnings and cargo test -p pdfcraft-xfa (134 passed) were run on pdfcraft-xfa at 536ab54.

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@coderabbitai On the nitpick "Add a mixed-posture caption fixture" (crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, review of 6252c85): thanks, that case was untested. The tests covered a caption font naming only a size, but not one that sets one posture property while its field sets the other.

e32872e adds a_caption_font_naming_only_a_weight_keeps_the_fields_posture: an italic Arial 8pt field whose caption font names only weight="bold". The caption is drawn in bold italic Helvetica 8pt: the weight from the caption, the posture, family and size from the field (XFA 3.3, "Formatting Text That Appears as Fixed or Variable Content", p. 43). No product code changed; Font::apply takes each property the caption leaves out from the field's font.

To check the test catches what the others don't, I made Font::apply drop the field's posture whenever the caption sets a weight. The new test fails with left: (Helvetica, true, false, 8.0), right: (Helvetica, true, true, 8.0), and the other five caption tests still pass.

The two other nitpicks of that review are covered by a_button_caption_without_a_font_of_its_own_takes_its_fields (49dc612, 0b506de), and the earlier one on an unreserved caption by a_caption_is_measured_in_the_font_and_paragraph_it_is_drawn_in (c49f193).

The branch now also merges current main. Two conflicts, both where each side added a line: crates/xfa/README.md (main's sentence on turned draws and this PR's on caption fonts; both kept) and the dynamic-layout entry in parity/acrobat-features.toml (main's evidence and notes, with this PR's test and note added).

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@mtlcl410 Thanks. I inspected the tests at 8200b87b. The mixed-posture fixture addresses the coverage gap.

• In crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, Line 3427, the new test sets italic Arial 8pt on the field and only weight="bold" on the caption. It asserts Helvetica, bold, italic, and 8pt.
• The button test checks both the drawn font and caption-derived height, including a size-only override.
• The unreserved top-caption test checks one 14pt line of caption space and the next field’s position.

Your reported mutation check distinguishes the new test from the size-only coverage. I did not rerun tests or independently verify CI.

The README retains both the turned-draw and caption-font text. The dynamic-XFA parity entry also retains both topics. I have no further change request for these test-coverage concerns.

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