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What this changes

Fixes #5521.

An empty multi-line XFA text field that grows with its text (it has minH and no fixed h) no longer moves whole to the next page when it doesn't fit. It starts where it is and its widget runs to the bottom of the content area. The rest of its box goes on at the top of the next one, closed on every side.

What still moves whole, as before:

• a field that is kept intact, holds a value, is on one line, or has a fixed height;
• a field with no room above the break for one line of its text, together with its caption and border.

When the field is inside a bordered section, the section breaks with it: its border closes on the first page, under its bottom margin (which the field leaves free), and opens again on the next page.

The basis

• XFA 3.3 pp. 291–292 (content splitting): text may split between its lines, and an object is kept intact only when it asks for that (keep intact="contentArea" or "pageArea"). A field's default is none.
• XFA 3.3 pp. 629–630: a border's break defaults to close, so each piece of a split field, and of a split section, is drawn with its own closed border.

How it works (crates/xfa/src/layout)

• flow.rs: place_block lets split_block split a field that splittable_widget_since accepts. When a piece crosses a content area, the enclosing flowed subforms break with it through break_frames, so their borders close and reopen as they do when a field moves on whole. Before this, next_area marked those frames lost, and the section borders went missing.
• pages.rs: frames_bottom() adds up the bottom margins of the open frames. A field being split stops above them.
• A field that turns out to have no room for a line is laid out again and moves whole. Its frame margins and names are kept, exactly as for a field that can't split.

Effect

About the numbers: we test against 500 XFA forms that governments, universities and public bodies in more than 50 countries publish online. 245 of them are dynamic (PdfCraft lays out their pages itself), and the counts here are out of those 245.

114 of the 245 forms have at least one text field that grows with its text. Each changed page was rendered again to rule out run-to-run noise.

This PR alone, on main:

• The layout of 5 forms (2.0%) changes: EMA eAF Renewal, eAF Marketing Authorisation (human and veterinary), eAF Variation (human), and the City of Cres (Croatia) Europe for Citizens submission form.
• eAF Renewal goes from 30 pages to 29. Its "City/Locality/Town/Village" field now splits at the bottom of page 17 instead of leaving a gap there, and the bordered address sections stay closed on both pages.

With the 8 open layout PRs (#4608, #4662, #4664, #5109, #5124, #5145, #5153, #5225):

• The layout of 4 forms (1.6%) changes.
• The Ontario Ministry of Labour's OLMP interim report goes from 3 pages to 2.

How you verified it

• cargo fmt --check
• clippy with -D warnings on pdfcraft-xfa
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-xfa: 145 passed
• cargo xtask layers

Tests (synthetic templates in crates/xfa/src/tests.rs)

Test	What it checks	Without the change
an_empty_growing_field_is_split_by_a_page_break	The field starts on page 1 and goes on at the top of page 2. Kept intact, holding a value, or on one line, it moves whole.	fails at tests.rs:4170
a_split_field_closes_its_border_on_each_piece_and_a_sliver_moves_whole	Each piece of the field has a closed border. A field with no room for a line moves whole.	fails at tests.rs:4226
a_field_split_inside_a_bordered_section_keeps_the_section_border_on_each_page	The section's border closes under its bottom margin on page 1 and reopens on page 2.	fails at tests.rs:4270
a_sliver_field_moves_on_as_a_field_kept_intact_does	A field with no room for a line is placed exactly like a field kept intact, under the section's top margin on the next page.	On the commit before the relayout fallback it lands at y = 72 instead of 90. It passes on main, where no field splits.

Review tests (#5525 review). Nine of the ten fail with the PR's code reverted; one is a guard.

Test	What it checks	Without the change
a_field_split_over_two_pages_has_what_follows_start_under_its_rest	A 216 pt field with 144 pt left splits 144 + 72, its border closed on each page, and the next draw starts under the 72 pt rest.	fails
a_field_split_over_three_pages_closes_its_border_round_every_piece	A 936 pt field splits 144 + 720 + 72 over three pages, one widget on page 1, the field border closed on all three pieces, and the next draw under the last piece.	fails
a_field_taller_than_a_page_starting_at_its_top_splits_at_its_bottom	A field taller than a page that starts right after a break fills that content area and goes on, instead of running off the page.	fails
a_field_starting_exactly_at_a_page_break_moves_on_whole	A field starting exactly at the break has no room at all: it moves whole, and nothing of it (border or widget) stays on page 1.	passes (guard); fails if the relayout fallback keeps the first attempt's items
a_field_splits_with_one_line_of_room_and_moves_on_whole_with_less	With exactly one line (12 pt) of room the field splits; with 11 pt it moves whole.	fails; also fails if the one-line check is dropped
two_fields_in_a_row_are_each_split_by_their_own_page_break	Two fields in a row each split at their own break (pages 1–2 and 2–3), each page holding only its own pieces' borders; a second field that fits after a split one is drawn once, whole.	fails
a_field_in_a_repeated_subform_splits_in_the_instance_that_reaches_the_break	In a repeated subform the second instance's field splits while the first stays whole; widgets found by SOM path, since a repeated field's PDF name is made up.	fails
a_field_split_inside_nested_sections_leaves_room_for_both_margins	Inside two nested sections the first piece ends above both bottom margins and the rest starts under both top margins.	fails
keep_intact_values_decide_whether_the_field_splits	keep intact="contentArea" and "pageArea" move the field whole; "none", an unknown value and an empty one split it.	fails
a_split_field_survives_huge_and_malformed_sizes	A 1000 in field splits over exactly 100 pages with a closed border on each; a minH past the 100,000 pt measurement cap splits over 139 pages; four such fields hit the 500-page cap and return TooLarge; negative, NaN, non-numeric and zero minH, and a 0.5 pt content area, lay out without panicking.	fails

A fix from the review (b61d64c). Writing these tests showed that over three pages or more, the field's own widget box (its text-edit border and fill) was closed only on the first piece: the next break cut the rest of it like any other line, so the middle piece had no bottom edge and the last no top edge. split_widget (common.rs) now returns the rest of the box, and split_block (flow.rs) draws each piece of it closed (widget_box), carrying what is left from break to break.

Test	What it checks	Without the change
a_widget_border_split_over_three_pages_is_closed_round_every_piece	Over three pages, each piece of the field's widget box has all four edges.	fails at 216ba50: the middle page has only the top edge

The 245 dynamic forms were rendered with 216ba50 and with b61d64c, with the opening scripts' 3-second budget scaled up a thousandfold: all 245 render on both, and no page differs: none of them draws a field box that this fix changes.

Item count on a relayout (c158b1c). A field that turns out to have no room for a line is taken off the page and laid out again; its items now count once against MAX_ITEMS, as a field kept intact does. Test: a_field_laid_out_again_counts_its_items_once (without the fix, 13 counted for 7 items on the pages). Nothing on the page changes: the 245 forms render the same before and after.

With #5225. That relayout also has to undo the field names #5225 records (taken). With both branches merged and without it, a field laid out again finds its own name taken and becomes Comments_2. Whichever of the two merges second adds taken to what is undone, with a test.

Never-crash

• No new unwrap/expect/panic!/unreachable!/todo! outside tests
• No indexing with input-derived positions. frames_bottom treats a NaN margin as none.
• No unsafe

Provenance

• Behaviour from the XFA 3.3 specification. Public forms were used only as test material and are not committed.

Anything a reviewer should look at first

• The relayout fallback in place_block. A field that can't split after all is laid out again and moves whole, rather than leaving an empty piece behind.
• break_frames in place of next_area while splitting. This is what keeps the enclosing sections' borders.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Empty, growing multi-line fields can continue across page breaks when they do not fit in the current page area.
  • Fields marked to stay intact remain together on one page.
• Bug Fixes
  • Borders and surrounding section layout are preserved when fields continue across pages.
  • Fields with existing values or single-line content move to the next page rather than splitting.
  • Fields move intact when there is not enough room before a page break to display a line of text.

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Walkthrough

Eligible empty, growing multi-line XFA fields can split across page breaks. Fields that do not meet the split conditions move whole. The layout handles field borders and surrounding section frames across page areas.

Changes: XFA field pagination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Field split eligibility and state crates/xfa/src/model.rs, crates/xfa/src/parse.rs, crates/xfa/src/layout.rs	Field records whether it must stay intact, and the parser recognizes contentArea and pageArea. The layouter stores state for a field being split and the item range for a field border.
Widget pieces and border support crates/xfa/src/layout/common.rs, crates/xfa/src/layout/field.rs	Widget helpers determine whether a text line fits before a cut and split widget content and borders. Field drawing records border items.
Page-break splitting and validation crates/xfa/src/layout/flow.rs, crates/xfa/src/layout/pages.rs, crates/xfa/src/tests.rs	Block placement splits eligible fields and draws borders around each piece. It handles surrounding frames and margins across page areas. Tests cover split eligibility, border behavior, placement, retries, and field sizes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant place_block
  participant split_block
  participant split_widget
  participant insert_border
  place_block->>split_block: Split eligible field block
  split_block->>split_widget: Divide widget at page cut
  split_block-->>place_block: Return field pieces
  place_block->>insert_border: Draw borders around pieces

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Suggested reviewers: dylanmtaylor, fredapps

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 4abe4

Fields inside sections with large bottom margins can fail to paginate. Add a progress-preserving fallback before merging.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 83670

The change remains within form layout. Split fields retain one interactive identity, fields that cannot split use whole-field placement, and page limits and error propagation constrain failed pagination. No material security risk introduced or worsened by this change was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed attack surface is document-controlled layout work and generated page/widget geometry within the processing operation. The inspected paths do not introduce a new service, credential or tenant-authority transition; deployment-level isolation was not established by this review.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Entry to the new field-splitting path requires a growing multiline text field without keep-intact, an empty rendered value and room for a text line. Other cases fall back to the established placement path, constraining which document-controlled objects receive the new behavior.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Continuation advances through content areas or pages and remains subject to the existing maximum-page guard. Errors propagate out of the private layout operation rather than exposing partially recovered output. These controls bound pagination repetition but do not establish complete resource safety for all malformed geometry.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#5521]. Field::splits_at_page_break limits splitting to empty, multiline, growing text fields without keep_intact. place_block splits eligible fie…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed layout, model, parser, and test code supports [#5521]. The model and parser changes represent the XFA keep intact condition. The layout changes implement field splitting, border closure,…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Title check		The title describes the main change: splitting eligible empty XFA text fields at page breaks.
Description check		The PR description is thorough and closely follows the template's main sections. It has a 'What this changes' section that states the behaviour change and references the issue with 'Fixes #5521'. It h…

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Explanation

The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#5521]. Field::splits_at_page_break limits splitting to empty, multiline, growing text fields without keep_intact. place_block splits eligible fields across content areas and relayouts fields with values, fixed height, one line, keep-intact settings, or less than one line of space. split_block, widget_box, and frame handling close field and enclosing section borders and preserve frame bottom margins. The added tests cover split placement, borders, margins, exclusions, repeated and nested sections, malformed sizes, relayout, and item accounting.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed layout, model, parser, and test code supports [#5521]. The model and parser changes represent the XFA keep intact condition. The layout changes implement field splitting, border closure, section breaks, margins, and whole-field fallback. The tests verify the issue behavior and related regressions. No unrelated product change is shown.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 19 functions across 8 files.

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The PR description is thorough and closely follows the template's main sections. It has a 'What this changes' section that states the behaviour change and references the issue with 'Fixes #5521'. It has a 'How you verified it' section listing the fmt, clippy, test and xtask commands, with a test table showing each test fails without the change. The Never-crash, Provenance and 'Anything a reviewer should look at first' sections are filled in. The Security and Parity and reach sections are not addressed. The template's parity/acrobat-features.toml item, headless automation tool item and docs item are not mentioned, and the security checklist is absent. These are non-critical for an internal layout change but the template asks for them to be ticked or deleted. The Tests checklist item about the 'What this changes' effect is also covered by the test table. Overall the description is mostly complete.

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[FredApps]

ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)

I read the first hunk: the XFA layout gets a Splitting struct for an empty field that a page break is splitting (M12, XFA 3.3 pages 291 to 292, the title): its widget's SOM path, the box where it was drawn, and its pieces so far (the page index, the page's first item of the piece, and the piece's box). An empty text field that grows with its text can be split across pages by the layout engine, and naming the spec pages is helpful for a reviewer. The state is tracked across pages, so it must be reset when the field is complete or the layout restarts, or a second field would inherit the first's pieces. I did not read the layouter. Add tests for a field split over two and over three pages, a field with no room at all on the page (moves to the next), a page break exactly at the field's start, and a form with two such fields in a row. Nothing was run.

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.

Status: waiting_author.

[mtlcl410]

Thanks for the review. I've added tests for each case you named, plus a few related ones, in 216ba50 (crates/xfa/src/tests.rs, each doc comment starts with "#5525 review:"):

• Split over two pages: a_field_split_over_two_pages_has_what_follows_start_under_its_rest. A 216 pt field with 144 pt left splits 144 + 72, its border is closed on both pages, and the draw after it starts under the 72 pt rest on page 2.
• Split over three pages: a_field_split_over_three_pages_closes_its_border_round_every_piece. A 936 pt field splits 144 + 720 + 72. It has one widget, on page 1, and its border is closed round all three pieces. The draw after it starts under the last piece. There's also a_split_field_survives_huge_and_malformed_sizes: a 1000 in field splits over exactly 100 pages with a closed border on each.
  This case turned up a bug, fixed in b61d64c: over three pages or more, the field's own widget box (its text-edit border and fill) was closed only on the first piece, so the middle piece had no bottom edge and the last no top edge. Each piece of it is now drawn closed. Test: a_widget_border_split_over_three_pages_is_closed_round_every_piece, which fails at 216ba50.
• No room at all on the page: a_field_splits_with_one_line_of_room_and_moves_on_whole_with_less. With exactly one line of room (12 pt) the field splits. With 11 pt it moves whole to the next page and leaves nothing behind. Two tests from the PR's first round, a_split_field_closes_its_border_on_each_piece_and_a_sliver_moves_whole and a_sliver_field_moves_on_as_a_field_kept_intact_does, cover a 0.1 in sliver.
• Page break exactly at the field's start: a_field_starting_exactly_at_a_page_break_moves_on_whole. The field moves whole and no border or widget of it stays on page 1. a_field_taller_than_a_page_starting_at_its_top_splits_at_its_bottom covers the other side of the break: a field taller than a page that starts right after a break fills that content area and goes on, instead of running off the page.
• Two such fields in a row: two_fields_in_a_row_are_each_split_by_their_own_page_break. The first field splits over pages 1–2 and the second over pages 2–3, and each page holds only the borders of its own pieces. A second field that fits after a split one is drawn once, whole. On the state: splitting is taken back as soon as split_block returns, before any error is passed on. field_border is cleared at the start of every block, and each layout call starts a new Layouter.

Related cases:

• a_field_in_a_repeated_subform_splits_in_the_instance_that_reaches_the_break: in a repeated subform only the second instance's field splits. The widgets are found by SOM path, because a repeated field's PDF name is made up.
• a_field_split_inside_nested_sections_leaves_room_for_both_margins: inside two nested sections, the first piece ends above both bottom margins.
• keep_intact_values_decide_whether_the_field_splits: contentArea and pageArea keep the field whole. none, an unknown value and an empty value split it.
• a_split_field_survives_huge_and_malformed_sizes: a minH past the 100,000 pt measurement cap gives 139 pages, and four such fields return TooLarge at the 500-page cap. Negative, NaN, non-numeric and zero minH values and a 0.5 pt content area lay out without panicking.

With the PR's code reverted, 9 of the 10 new tests fail. a_field_starting_exactly_at_a_page_break_moves_on_whole passes on main, where no field splits, so it is a guard. It fails if the relayout fallback keeps the items from the first attempt. pdfcraft-xfa now has 144 tests, all passing, and fmt and clippy with -D warnings are clean. The 245 dynamic forms render the same before and after the fix.

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[mtlcl410]

A follow-up from working through FredApps' review here: writing the tests for it led us to one more thing in this PR, fixed in c158b1c. Thank you, FredApps, for the cases that led there.

What it was. When a field that might split turns out to have no room above the break for a line, place_block takes its first try off the page and lays it out again, to move on whole. The first try's items went, but their count against MAX_ITEMS stayed, so such a field was counted twice. Only the cap could notice; nothing on the page changed.

The fix. The item count now goes back with those items. The measurement budget still keeps the first try, since that work was done. A text field draws no picture, so the picture budget isn't touched.

Test. a_field_laid_out_again_counts_its_items_once lays out the same field twice, once laid out again and once kept intact, and checks that both end with the same pages, the same items and the same count. Without the fix the count is 13 for 7 items on the pages; with it, 7.

With #5225. The same undo will also need to restore the set of field names #5225 adds (taken). We tried both branches merged: without it, a field laid out again finds its own name taken and becomes Comments_2. Whichever of the two merges second will add taken to what is undone, with a test; both descriptions now say so.

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Major · Ensure field splits make progress when margins exceed the next area. · pages.rs:196

crates/xfa/src/layout/pages.rs:196
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Ensure field splits make progress when margins exceed the next area.

For an eligible field, frames_bottom() can make the next cut fall below seg_top. The non-first-segment branch then reuses that non-advancing limit. split_widget cannot consume the remainder at that cut: it either keeps the existing widget_rest, replaces it with a remainder starting even earlier, or keeps the widget whole below the cut. break_frames still advances to another area. Repeated areas can therefore reach MAX_PAGES and return TooLarge.

Handle a non-advancing cut in split_block with a defined overflow fallback that advances the field remainder instead of reusing limit.

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Update split_block to detect when margins make the next cut non-advancing
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Thanks for this one; it reproduces and is fixed in d8ebe1a.

What happened. When a split field goes on into a content area smaller than the margins of the flowed subforms round it, the next cut fell at or above where the previous piece ended. Nothing of the field was placed, break_frames moved to another area, and with only such areas left the layout broke page after page until it passed MAX_PAGES (500) and returned TooLarge. Two layouts trigger it: a section's bottom margin larger than the area (the frames_bottom() path you named), and a section's top margin taking the whole area (break_frames clamps it to the area, which leaves no room either).

Fix. split_block now catches a non-advancing cut after the first piece. The field then goes on past the subforms' bottom margins. When their top margins took the whole area, it goes on from the top of the area instead. So every such area takes part of the field, at least what is left of it after the top margins. Those subforms can't hold the field there, so they are drawn without their border and the layout reports it with the warning used for content that overflows a section. A cut that advances takes the same path as before. The field splitting follows XFA 3.3 pp. 291–292, and the closed border on each piece follows pp. 629–630.

Test. a_field_split_into_areas_smaller_than_its_sections_margins_still_moves_on (crates/xfa/src/tests.rs). The form has two page areas. The first is used once and has a 720 pt content area. The second has a 36 pt one. A 216 pt empty growing field sits in a section with a 72 pt bottom margin, and in a second case a 72 pt top margin. Both cases now lay out to 5 pages: the first piece on page one, then 36 pt on each of the next four. With a section border, the form still lays out and reports that the border was dropped.

Fails without the fix. With flow.rs reverted to the previous commit (4bcd2d4):

bottomInset="1in": TooLarge("the form lays out to more than 500 pages")

With the bottom-margin case taken out of the test, the top-margin case fails the same way:

topInset="1in": TooLarge("the form lays out to more than 500 pages")

Each part of the fix was also checked on its own. Without the top-margin fallback, the topInset case fails as above. Without marking the subforms, the warning assertion fails (bottomInset="1in": []).

cargo test -p pdfcraft-xfa passes (161 tests), and so do clippy with -D warnings, cargo fmt --check, cargo xtask layers and cargo xtask assets.

CI on d8ebe1a passed (gate / gate (ubuntu-24.04)).