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M12: a flowed XFA subform in a table cell is as tall as its content (#5367) - #5370
A cell of a table row that is a flowed subform (tb, lr-tb, rl-tb or table layout) is now as tall as its content, even when it gives a height. Before, it was as tall as that height. maxH still caps it.
Unchanged:
a positioned cell keeps its height;
a flowed subform outside a table keeps its height.
This departs from the text of XFA 3.3. A height "fixes the height … of a container" (p. 275), and a row's cells take "their natural sizes" (p. 329). Adobe Acrobat and PDF-XChange Editor both lay such a cell out as tall as its content, and this follows them. On the Dutch teruggeleiding form, both end the child's row right after its last question.
measure's content-height calculation (its None arm, about 30 lines) moves unchanged into a new content_height function, which measure calls, so the table code can use it too.
12 of the 245 dynamic forms (4.9%) change; see the issue for the list.
Aanvraagformulier omgang: section 2 starts under its heading on page 2, and the form drops from 11 pages to 10.
EMA veterinary eAF: 72 → 73 pages. Some of its cells have more content than their height, so they grow.
Tests
All in crates/xfa/src/tests.rs. "Fails" means the test fails with the code fix reverted (measure.rs at the merge base, tests kept).
a_flowed_subform_in_a_table_cell_is_as_tall_as_its_content (fails) checks four cases:
a flowed cell with h is as tall as its content;
a positioned cell keeps its h;
a flowed subform outside a table keeps its h;
the cell is measured at its column's width, not its own (in a 1in column, a 5in-wide lr-tb cell wraps).
a_flowed_cell_grows_past_a_small_height_and_keeps_margins_and_max_height (fails): a flowed cell grows past a 0.2in or zero h; its margins count; maxH still caps it; a table-layout cell is included; a cell spanning two columns is measured at both columns' width.
other_cells_keep_their_heights_and_the_row_takes_the_tallest (fails): a field, an exclusion group and a positioned or row-layout subform in a cell keep their h; a flowed cell beside a taller field cell leaves the row at the field's height.
an_empty_flowed_cell_and_a_nested_one_are_as_tall_as_their_content (fails): an empty flowed cell is as tall as its margins; a flowed cell in a nested table's flowed cell is as tall as its content.
repeating_content_and_repeating_rows_of_flowed_cells_take_their_content_height (fails): a repeating subform in a flowed cell counts each instance; a repeating row of flowed cells takes each row's content height (widgets found by SOM path).
a_flowed_cell_taller_than_the_page_huge_margins_and_deep_nesting_stay_bounded (fails): a flowed cell with h="20in" no longer pushes what follows to a second page; margins wider than the column, and flowed cells nested 200 tables deep, lay out without panicking.
every_kind_of_node_without_a_height_is_as_tall_as_its_content (guard; passes on main too): a draw, a field, an exclusion group, an area and a subform of each layout (positioned, tb, lr-tb, rl-tb, table) with no h are as tall as their content, so moving that calculation into content_height changes no height.
The guard assertions were checked by breaking the new code on purpose: applying the rule to every subform layout, to every kind of cell, or to exclusion groups; measuring at the cell's own width; dropping maxH or the margins; and, in content_height, measuring an area or exclusion group as empty or not counting a repeating child's instances. Each fault fails at least one of the tests above, except adding row to the layouts the rule covers: a row-layout subform with h is that tall whichever path measures it, so the row-layout-cell assertion is a plain guard.
The layouts of the 17 synthetic fixtures in crates/xfa/src/fixtures.rs (every widget's rectangle, and each page's item count) are identical with this branch's measure.rs and with the merge base's.
cargo fmt --check, and clippy -D warnings on pdfcraft-xfa.
cargo test passes:
pdfcraft-xfa: 136;
pdfcraft-engine: 382 + 16;
pdfcraft-automation: 45 + 280.
Regression
Every page of the 245 dynamic forms was rendered at 24 dpi on main and on this branch, and the checksums compared.
omgang and RVO vaststelling 2012 improve. On the latter, two lines of the introduction no longer overlap.
teruggeleiding is the case this targets.
The EMA veterinary eAF and the EMA human eAF change as the rule says: cells take their content's height.
With the open XFA layout PRs as well. The same comparison was run with #4608, #4662, #4664, #5109, #5124, #5145, #5153 and #5225 merged onto main, with and without this branch on top. Every form that differed was rendered a second time, to rule out the opening budget.
11 of the 12 forms above change. EMA's renewal form no longer does.
The page count changes on 3 forms:
omgang: 10 pages become 9;
teruggeleiding: 13 pages become 11;
informatieverzoek: 5 pages become 4.
The EMA veterinary eAF keeps its page count (50).
No other form changes.
Anything a reviewer should look at first
This follows other readers over the text of the spec. It is limited to flowed subforms that are cells of a table row.
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Bug Fixes
Flowed subforms with a specified height in table cells now size to their content at the available cell width, subject to the maximum height.
Positioned subforms and other cell content retain their specified sizing behavior.
Content-based height calculations now account for margins and nested or repeated content across layouts, helping keep table rows and following content correctly positioned.
A `tb` (or `lr-tb`, `table`) subform that is a cell of a table row was laid out at the height it
gives itself, even when its content is much shorter, so the rows after it and the next section
were pushed down, onto an extra page on a public form. Adobe Acrobat and PDF-XChange Editor both
lay such a cell out as tall as its content, although a height makes a container fixed (XFA 3.3
p. 275); this follows them. A positioned cell, and a flowed subform outside a table, keep their
heights. `measure`'s content height moves into `content_height` so both can use it.
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The change extracts content-height calculation into a helper and uses it to size explicitly sized flowed subforms in table cells. Tests cover content measurement across layout types and table-cell cases, including margins, maximum heights, spans, repeated content, and page positioning.
measure delegates content-height calculation to a helper. The helper handles node types and subform layouts.
Size flowed subforms in table cells crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs, crates/xfa/src/tests.rs
Explicitly sized flowed subforms in table cells use content height at the column width, plus vertical margins, capped by max_h. Tests cover other cell types, content measurement, margins, spans, nested and repeated content, and page positioning.
Repeated table rows containing variable-length text can overlap after this change. Align row measurement with the data used for drawing before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to a499e
A crafted form can cause additional recursive processing after the normal work budget is exhausted. Other limits still constrain the document, but protection against excessive processing time is weakened.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Explicitly sized nested Table cells can continue uncached content traversal after size_of reaches its work-budget fallback. Unlike the base behavior, the new path does not let that fallback stop recursive measurement, weakening containment of document-controlled processing work.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified exposure is processing capacity in a process laying out an attacker-supplied XFA template. Triggering the path requires control of table/subform structure and explicit heights, not newly granted privileges. Cross-tenant or service-wide impact depends on deployment isolation, which was not supplied.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A crafted nested-table template can reach the new direct content-height traversal after size_of stops recursive measurement. This permits additional work before a later terminal budget check. The control bypass is source-supported; exploit duration and practical denial-of-service impact were not measured.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Important containment remains: parsing caps XML nodes at two million and model nesting at 64; drawing checks depth and measurement exhaustion; cell output still honors positive max_h. These constrain the concern but do not guard the direct content-height traversal itself.
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[#5367] The only directly linked issue is #5367, which is open and has coding requirements. Its requirement is that a flowed table-row cell is as tall as its content, even when it gives an h. The revi…
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The whole-PR diff (merge base dafb3be3 to head 334638d8) touches crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs and crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, as the raw summary states. In measure.rs, the content_height …
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[#5367] The only directly linked issue is #5367, which is open and has coding requirements. Its requirement is that a flowed table-row cell is as tall as its content, even when it gives an h. The reviewed head implements this in crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs, in the table-row cell loop. A cell that is a Node::Subform with h set and layout Tb, LrTb, RlTb, or Table now takes content_height(...) at the column or column-span width (w minus the subform's horizontal margins, floor 1.0), adds its vertical margins, and applies max_h. Other cells keep the height from size_of. Positioned cells and flowed subforms outside tables keep their h, because the None arm of measure still uses c.h when it is set. The content-height logic moved unchanged into content_height, and measure calls it. The diff confirms this. The PR adds regression tests in crates/xfa/src/tests.rs for the cell height rule, its limits (positioned cells, maxH, margins, column width, nested and repeating content, oversized heights), and a guard test for nodes without h. The PR description reports that the new cell-height tests fail on the merge base. I did not rerun the tests. The spec deviation from XFA 3.3 is disclosed in the PR and matches the issue's requested behavior. The change to min_h on these cells is not mentioned in the issue; it does not conflict with the issue's stated requirements. Remaining uncertainty: the claimed form-level results (12 of 245 forms, page counts) are reported by the author and were not reproduced here.
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The whole-PR diff (merge base dafb3be3 to head 334638d8) touches crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs and crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, as the raw summary states. In measure.rs, the content_height extraction is a mechanical move of the existing None arm. It is needed for the new cell-height path to reuse the same calculation. The new cell branch is limited to flowed subforms with h in table-row cells, which is the scope of #5367. The test additions cover the behavior of #5367 and its guard cases. I found no change unrelated to #5367 in the reviewed files. I did not inspect the full test diff, so the test file's contents are assessed from the summary and the PR description.
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- Around line 362-363: Update the cell content-width calculation used by
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A flowed subform in a row cell is drawn at its column's width; its
content height is now measured at that width (less the cell's margins)
rather than at the width the cell gives itself, so content that wraps
in a narrower column no longer runs under the next row.
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I read the head of the change: the XFA layout's measure code for a node with no declared height is being moved out of the None arm (a block of about 30 lines is removed in the part I saw); the title says a flowed subform in a table cell is as tall as its content. A refactor that removes code from the middle of a layout function risks changing heights for the other node types (draw, field, exclusion group, area). I did not read where it went. Please add layout tests for each node kind with no height, plus the table-cell case, and compare the height of existing fixtures before and after.
I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.
Six tests for the review of storytold#5370: every kind of node without a height
is as tall as its content after the measurement moved into
content_height; a flowed cell grows past a small or zero height, keeps
its margins and maxH and is measured across spanned columns; fields,
exclusion groups and positioned or row subforms in a cell keep their
heights; empty, nested and repeating flowed cells and repeating rows;
a cell taller than the page, huge margins and deep nesting.
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Thanks for the review. The diff shows about 30 lines going out of measure, which reads like a removal, and the description only said so in passing; I've made it clearer there. measure's None arm now lives, unchanged, in a new content_height function, which measure calls, and the table-row code (cells) calls the same function for a flowed subform in a cell. Tests for each case you asked about are in 36db141:
Each node kind with no height.every_kind_of_node_without_a_height_is_as_tall_as_its_content lays out a draw, a field, an exclusion group, an area and a subform of each layout (positioned, tb, lr-tb, rl-tb, table, and a tb subform with margins), each with no h. For each one it checks that the next field starts where that node's content ends. This test passes on main too, which shows the move changed no height. To check that it can fail, I broke content_height on purpose: measuring an area or an exclusion group as empty, or measuring every cell's content, makes it fail.
The table-cell case.
a_flowed_subform_in_a_table_cell_is_as_tall_as_its_content: a flowed cell with h is as tall as its content; a positioned cell and a flowed subform outside a table keep their h; the cell is measured at its column's width.
a_flowed_cell_grows_past_a_small_height_and_keeps_margins_and_max_height: a cell grows past a small or zero h; its margins count; maxH still caps it; a table-layout cell is covered; a cell spanning two columns is measured at both columns' width.
other_cells_keep_their_heights_and_the_row_takes_the_tallest: a field, an exclusion group and a positioned or row-layout subform in a cell keep their h, and the tallest cell sets the row's height.
an_empty_flowed_cell_and_a_nested_one_are_as_tall_as_their_content: an empty cell; a nested table.
repeating_content_and_repeating_rows_of_flowed_cells_take_their_content_height: a repeating subform inside a cell, and a repeating row. The repeated widgets are found by SOM path.
a_flowed_cell_taller_than_the_page_huge_margins_and_deep_nesting_stay_bounded: a cell with h="20in" no longer pushes the next field to page 2; margins wider than the column, and cells nested 200 tables deep, lay out without panicking.
Existing fixtures before and after. I laid out the 17 synthetic templates in crates/xfa/src/fixtures.rs with measure.rs at the merge base and at this branch, and wrote down every widget's rectangle and each page's item count. The two outputs are identical.
All six table-cell tests fail when measure.rs is reverted to the merge base (with the tests kept). For the assertions that still pass after that revert, I broke the new code on purpose: applying the rule to positioned subforms or to fields and exclusion groups; measuring at the cell's own width; dropping maxH or the margins; and not counting a repeating child's instances. Each of these faults makes at least one test fail. One assertion caught none of them: the row-layout cell. A row-layout subform with h comes out at that height whichever path measures it, so that check is only a guard.
pdfcraft-xfa now has 136 tests and all pass. cargo fmt --check and clippy -D warnings on pdfcraft-xfa are clean.
Conflicts:
- crates/xfa/src/tests.rs: both sides added tests at the end of the file
(this branch's flowed table-cell and content-height tests; main's
rotated-draw tests). Kept both, closing the branch's last test before
main's helpers.
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Follow-up Comments
Pass the actual row context to every table-row measurement.
359-365: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Pass the actual row context to every table-row measurement.
For a named repeated row, measurement builds the cell path without the row segment, such as T[k].C[0].F[0], while drawing uses T[k].R[j].C[m].F[0]. The growing field can therefore use a missing or different bound value and produce a shorter row height. The table then advances by that shorter height, while the field can retain a taller rectangle and overlap the following row. Use the actual row context for every affected row_height call, including repeated, leader, and non-flow table rows.
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Review comment at @crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs around lines 359 - 365:
Update every affected row_height call in table measurement to pass the actual
row context, including repeated, leader, and non-flow rows, so cell measurement
uses the same row path as drawing. Preserve the existing height calculations and
locate the relevant calls in the table-measurement flow near content_height.
Use each cell’s sibling index during measurement.
359-365: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Use each cell’s sibling index during measurement.
The loop passes 0 to ctx.with_som for every flowed cell. A later same-named cell can therefore be measured from the first cell’s shorter value, while draw_row uses its actual sibs.at(i) index. The row can become too short and overlap following table content. Compute SomIndices::of(&row.children) once before the loop, pass sibs.at(i) to with_som, and import SomIndices in measure.rs.
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Review comment at @crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs around lines 359 - 365:
Update the row measurement loop to compute `SomIndices::of(&row.children)` once
before iteration and pass `sibs.at(i)` to `ctx.with_som` instead of `0`, so each
cell uses its actual sibling index. Import `SomIndices` in `measure.rs` and
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@coderabbitai Thank you for both follow-ups; they point at a real difference between how a cell is measured and how it is drawn. Answers by title:
Pass the actual row context to every table-row measurement. This PR keeps the row context as it is on main and doesn't change it. Measuring a row has never added the row's own name segment: cells starts from ctx.child(&row.common) (crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs:344 at 6cdb67e, line 342 on main), and the callers of row_height pass the table's context, while draw_row uses ctx.with_som(&row.common, sib) (crates/xfa/src/layout/draw.rs:18, the same on main). Every other cell measured through size_of gets the same path, T[0].C[0], so the new flowed-cell branch gives the same path as its neighbours. Fixing it means passing the row context and index through all five row_height calls, in measure.rs, flow.rs and draw.rs. It also runs into the measurement cache, which is keyed by template node and not by instance. That is a change to the table layout as a whole, so it is better tracked in its own issue.
Use each cell's sibling index during measurement. Same reason: measure measures every node at sibling index 0 by design. Its comment at measure.rs:47-50 says "Measurements are cached per template node, so instance 0 stands for all of them", and the line is the same on main. The new branch calls ctx.with_som(&s.common, 0) (measure.rs:361) to match that, so that a flowed cell and its children are measured under the path size_of would give them. If only this branch used sibs.at(i), a cell would be measured under one path and its contents, through the cache, under another. The index belongs with the row-context change above, in that same issue.
No code change on this PR for these two.
CI on 6cdb67e passed (gate / gate (ubuntu-24.04)).
@mtlcl410 Thank you for the explanation. I checked the source and the diff against the merge base. I withdraw both change requests for this PR.
Row context:cells retains the existing ctx.child(&row.common) setup. The new branch does not introduce the missing row segment during row-height measurement.
Sibling index:measure explicitly uses instance zero for template-node caching. The new ctx.with_som(&s.common, 0) call follows that convention. Changing only this branch to use sibs.at(i) would make the measurement paths inconsistent.
The measurement-versus-drawing difference remains a separate layout concern. A follow-up should address row context, instance indices, and cache semantics together. Neither finding justifies a change in this PR.
Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for that coordinated change?
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Learning: Within repository "storytold/pdfcraft", only for files matching one of ["crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs"]: When reviewing content-height measurement for explicitly sized flowed table cells with tb, lr-tb, rl-tb, or table layout in crates/xfa/src/layout/measure.rs::cells, check that content_height receives the allocated column-span width minus the cell's horizontal margins, bounded below by 1.0, rather than the cell's declared or independently measured width. The measurement must match the width used to draw the cell, including when its declared width exceeds the column width.
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When a repeated row contains a growable field, row measurement omits the row’s SOM segment. Drawing uses the instance-specific value instead. A long value can extend past the measured row and overlap the next row. Calculate the row height from the actual instance’s SOM.
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Row height measurement in the Node::Subform branch must use the actual repeated
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What this changes
A cell of a table row that is a flowed subform (
tb,lr-tb,rl-tbortablelayout) is now as tall as its content, even when it gives a height. Before, it was as tall as that height.maxHstill caps it.Unchanged:
This departs from the text of XFA 3.3. A height "fixes the height … of a container" (p. 275), and a row's cells take "their natural sizes" (p. 329). Adobe Acrobat and PDF-XChange Editor both lay such a cell out as tall as its content, and this follows them. On the Dutch teruggeleiding form, both end the child's row right after its last question.
measure's content-height calculation (itsNonearm, about 30 lines) moves unchanged into a newcontent_heightfunction, whichmeasurecalls, so the table code can use it too.Fixes #5367
How common
12 of the 245 dynamic forms (4.9%) change; see the issue for the list.
Tests
All in
crates/xfa/src/tests.rs. "Fails" means the test fails with the code fix reverted (measure.rsat the merge base, tests kept).a_flowed_subform_in_a_table_cell_is_as_tall_as_its_content(fails) checks four cases:his as tall as its content;h;h;lr-tbcell wraps).a_flowed_cell_grows_past_a_small_height_and_keeps_margins_and_max_height(fails): a flowed cell grows past a 0.2in or zeroh; its margins count;maxHstill caps it; atable-layout cell is included; a cell spanning two columns is measured at both columns' width.other_cells_keep_their_heights_and_the_row_takes_the_tallest(fails): a field, an exclusion group and a positioned or row-layout subform in a cell keep theirh; a flowed cell beside a taller field cell leaves the row at the field's height.an_empty_flowed_cell_and_a_nested_one_are_as_tall_as_their_content(fails): an empty flowed cell is as tall as its margins; a flowed cell in a nested table's flowed cell is as tall as its content.repeating_content_and_repeating_rows_of_flowed_cells_take_their_content_height(fails): a repeating subform in a flowed cell counts each instance; a repeating row of flowed cells takes each row's content height (widgets found by SOM path).a_flowed_cell_taller_than_the_page_huge_margins_and_deep_nesting_stay_bounded(fails): a flowed cell withh="20in"no longer pushes what follows to a second page; margins wider than the column, and flowed cells nested 200 tables deep, lay out without panicking.every_kind_of_node_without_a_height_is_as_tall_as_its_content(guard; passes on main too): a draw, a field, an exclusion group, an area and a subform of each layout (positioned,tb,lr-tb,rl-tb,table) with nohare as tall as their content, so moving that calculation intocontent_heightchanges no height.The guard assertions were checked by breaking the new code on purpose: applying the rule to every subform layout, to every kind of cell, or to exclusion groups; measuring at the cell's own width; dropping
maxHor the margins; and, incontent_height, measuring an area or exclusion group as empty or not counting a repeating child's instances. Each fault fails at least one of the tests above, except addingrowto the layouts the rule covers: a row-layout subform withhis that tall whichever path measures it, so the row-layout-cell assertion is a plain guard.The layouts of the 17 synthetic fixtures in
crates/xfa/src/fixtures.rs(every widget's rectangle, and each page's item count) are identical with this branch'smeasure.rsand with the merge base's.cargo fmt --check, and clippy-D warningsonpdfcraft-xfa.cargo testpasses:pdfcraft-xfa: 136;pdfcraft-engine: 382 + 16;pdfcraft-automation: 45 + 280.Regression
Every page of the 245 dynamic forms was rendered at 24 dpi on main and on this branch, and the checksums compared.
0from one opening to the next, because the 3-second opening budget cuts its last script depending on how busy the machine is (Dynamic XFA: opening stops the form's initialize scripts part way and saves the half-initialized form; the next opening erases what was typed on the pages it then hides #4790).With the open XFA layout PRs as well. The same comparison was run with #4608, #4662, #4664, #5109, #5124, #5145, #5153 and #5225 merged onto main, with and without this branch on top. Every form that differed was rendered a second time, to rule out the opening budget.
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