[alehel]

What this changes

A YouTube review showed Add Background "not working". It works on plain pages, but on a page that first fills itself with opaque white (browsers' Save as PDF, print drivers, many generators), the background is drawn behind that fill and is completely hidden. A near-white default colour ([1, 1, 0.85]) made it look broken even where it did work.

• pdfcraft-edit: new backdrop module. Strict detection: one re, axis-aligned, opaque white in DeviceGray/RGB/CMYK, painted before anything else, covering the crop box (clip and ExtGState honoured). To replace it, that one fill operator becomes n in a per-page copy of its content stream, and the original stream object is left untouched for other pages that share it. The copy carries /PCBackdrop << /Index /Op /Before /Was >>: how many operators come before the n, the fill it stands in for, a SHA-256 of those operators by value (spacing and number formatting don't count), and the original's object number as two plain integers. The tag holds no page content and no reference. A page-sized picture (a scan) is reported only, never touched.
• Remove background turns the fill back on in the copy when the operators before it still hash the same, and a scan with the fill restored finds it painted first again, covering the page. Edits and redactions made after the fill are kept. If the original stream is still in the document with the same bytes, the page points at it again. Otherwise the fill stays off, and Remove says which pages: a toast in the app ("Page 1 changed after the background was added, so its own white backdrop stays off. It looks the same on white paper."), and warnings from doc_remove_marks. In the engine, Document::edit_notices is now a Vec<EditNotice>, with the existing undrawn-text notice as one variant.
• Background gains replace_backdrop (default on). The default colour is a light yellow that is visible on screen.
• Dialog: shows "N pages paint their own white backdrop… Replace it" (ticked) and a warning for scanned pages. It checks 24 pages a frame with one page-tree walk per frame, cached by doc id and edit generation. Measured in release on synthetic flat page trees: a frame costs 0.8 ms at 1,000 pages, 4.5 ms at 5,000 and 19 ms at 20,000, and the whole check takes 17 ms, 0.95 s and 16 s. Before the review fix it walked the tree once per page: 106 ms and 464 ms a frame at 5,000 and 20,000 pages. The 20,000-page frame is still slightly over a 16 ms budget, and the whole check still grows with the square of the page count, 24× more slowly than before. The schematic preview now draws text lines over the colour.
• Automation: doc_background takes replace_backdrop. New read-only doc_backdrops lists fill / image pages. doc_backdrops checks its pages in one page_backdrops call, which walks the page tree once. doc_remove_marks returns warnings for pages whose backdrop stays off.

Since the approval: a redaction leak, fixed in 3485e92a

Testing a build of this branch found that the first version's tag, /PCBackdrop << /Original ref /At /Len >>, kept the page's original content stream reachable. After Add background, then Redact (or Remove Hidden Information) and a full save, the text taken off the page was still in the file. Text extraction didn't show it, but anyone reading the file's bytes could:

Saved file	Removed text found in its streams
Redact only	0
Add background, then Redact	1, in the original stream /Original pointed at
Remove Hidden Information only	0
Add background, then Remove Hidden Information	1

Redaction and sanitize keep a rewritten stream's dictionary and strip only /Length and /PCAdded (the same class of leak was fixed for /PCAdded in #1 and in dad86bf9). The new key wasn't on that list. Now the tag carries nothing worth stripping, so all four rows are 0. As a bonus, Remove background now also turns the fill back on after Edit text and after redactions, which the first version gave up on silently.

How you verified it

• cargo fmt --check
• clippy -D warnings on pdfcraft-edit, -engine, -automation, -ui-egui (--all-targets)
• Every test target of the crates I changed: pdfcraft-edit (271), pdfcraft-engine lib (335) and it (16), pdfcraft-automation it (255) and lib (34), pdfcraft-ui-egui it (1028) and lib (468)
• cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets, cargo xtask parity
• Not run locally: wasm check (target not installed). CI covers it; sha2, new in pdfcraft-edit and already in the lock file, is pure Rust.

Tests, all seen failing with the fix reverted:

• Unit (crates/edit/src/backdrop_tests.rs): replace and exact restore; a split across content streams; update-then-remove; a shared stream copied for one page only; 19 not-a-backdrop cases left byte-identical (partial, clipped, grey, translucent, unknown gs, pattern, default black, painted-after, holes, non-rect paths, rotated, fill+stroke, Q underflow, short operands, 1e400); writer variants recognised (flipped Chrome-style CTM with clip, CMYK, sc, quarter turn).
• End to end (crates/automation/tests/it/backdrop.rs): rendered pixels are white with replace_backdrop: false (the old bug) and red with it, through save/reopen; the scan page stays covered; Remove brings the backdrop back.
• Review fix (backdrop_tests.rs): 4,000 pages checked in one batch under a generous 5 s bound (17.6 s with the old per-page lookup put back); batch order and a page past the end that hides nothing (seen failing with the old blank-the-batch behaviour); a background over several pages that share streams, replaced and then restored.
• UI (tests/it/marks.rs): the offer and scan warning appear, unticking keeps the backdrop, ticking replaces it, and the offer is gone afterwards.
• Leak fix (3485e92a), each piece reverted on its own, 11 guarded test runs all red:
  • /Original reference put back: the_tag_holds_no_reference_and_a_full_save_keeps_no_second_copy_of_the_page and, end to end through a full save, removed_text_leaves_the_file_when_a_background_replaced_the_pages_backdrop (redaction and Remove Hidden Information; the fill comes back afterwards too).
  • Re-scan dropped: a_fill_that_would_cover_content_painted_before_it_stays_off.
  • Raw bytes hashed instead of operators: a_copy_written_out_again_with_other_spacing_still_comes_back and the end-to-end test (redaction writes one operator a line).
  • The old rule (only an unchanged copy comes back): an_edit_after_the_fill_is_kept_and_the_backdrop_still_comes_back.
  • Notice dropped: remove_background_names_the_pages_whose_own_backdrop_stays_off (engine), remove_background_warns_about_pages_whose_own_backdrop_stays_off (automation), remove_background_says_which_pages_keep_their_own_backdrop_off (UI toast).
  • Also: a_change_before_the_fill_leaves_it_off_and_names_the_page, a_tag_that_does_not_add_up_is_left_alone (hostile, mistyped and old-format tags), operators_hash_by_value_not_by_spelling.
• Also checked by eye in the app over the control channel: the white-backdrop page that stayed white before now shows the colour.

Never-crash

• No new unwrap/expect/panic! outside tests
• get() and checked conversions throughout. The scan is capped at 64 KiB and 4096 operators, q nesting at 64, and non-finite operands are rejected. Tags are untrusted input: every field is type-checked, the operator must be f, F or f*, and the hash walks nested operands at most 32 deep.
• No unsafe
• N/A: no crash fixed

Provenance

• No assets, fonts or copied code
• Behaviour from ISO 32000-2 (§8.5.3 path painting, n) and black-box testing of our own output. Acrobat's behaviour on such pages has not been observed, so the parity notes record this as our own choice.

Security

• No new file paths (doc_backdrops reads none), no network, MCP unchanged
• Text a redaction or Remove Hidden Information takes off a page whose backdrop was replaced leaves the file (it survived through /PCBackdrop /Original before 3485e92a)

Parity and reach

• edit.background-add / -update-remove evidence and notes updated, including what is still hidden: scans, backdrops inside a form XObject, non-rectangular or named-colour-space fills, and a preview that is still a schematic
• Headless: doc_background replace_backdrop, doc_backdrops, doc_remove_marks warnings
• ROADMAP progress log

Anything a reviewer should look at first

• 3485e92a changed the design after the approval. The tag and the restore rule are new (see "Since the approval"), so this needs another look.
• Default on. Replacing the backdrop edits the page's own content (in a copy), on by default in both the dialog and the tool. It is reversible through Remove and undo, and visually identical on white paper, but it is a content change the user didn't ask for by name. The dialog states it next to the checkbox.
• Strictness of detection (walk in backdrop.rs). I chose to miss backdrops rather than ever neutralise real content. Backdrops inside a form XObject are the most likely real-world miss. Restoring is held to the same standard: the fill only comes back where the walk finds it first and covering the page again.
• A full save can cost one extra stream. With no reference, a full save drops the original, so Remove then writes the restored bytes into a new stream. A stream that several pages shared ends up as one copy per restored page.
• Public type change: edit_notices holds EditNotice instead of TextNotice.
• Translations: the two new strings (one page, several pages) are in all 33 catalogues. I wrote them following each catalogue's existing backdrop wording, so a native speaker's look is welcome.
• The default colour changed from [1, 1, 0.85] to [1, 0.95, 0.7].

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The Background dialog detects opaque white page backdrops and offers to replace them when adding a background. Replacement is enabled by default, and you can turn it off to preserve the backdrop.
  • Removing the added background restores the original white backdrop if its content has not been edited.
  • You can check which pages have a painted backdrop. Page-sized images are identified but not replaced, and the dialog warns that they may obscure the background.
  • Updated the default background color and preview, which now shows page content over the background.

[FredApps]

Review of head 93df949. Requesting changes for one measured problem, a claim in the description that does not hold. The rest of the change checked out.

Finding (blocking): the Background dialog's check is quadratic in page count, so "long documents never stall it" is not true.
crates/edit/src/backdrop.rs:127-128: page_of does pdfcraft_model::pages(doc).into_iter().nth(page), which builds every Page (cloning each page dictionary) to return one. scan/page_backdrop call it once per page, and BackdropCheck::update in crates/ui-egui/src/marks_ui.rs (around line 113) calls doc.page_backdrop(p) for 24 pages every frame. So each frame costs 24 x O(pages).

I measured it with a throwaway test (not part of the PR): synthetic documents with a flat page tree, one tiny content stream per page that starts with a white fill, release build, calling pdfcraft_edit::page_backdrop. The host was a busy shared machine, so read the absolute times as pessimistic; the growth is the point.

pages	24 pages (one dialog frame)	all pages
1,000	9 ms	0.34 s
5,000	93 ms	18.7 s
20,000	385 ms	316 s

So at 5,000 pages the dialog spends about 90 ms of every frame on the check for roughly 200 frames, and at 20,000 pages about 0.4 s a frame for around 800 frames, while "Checking pages..." is shown. Suggested fix: look the page up lazily (stop at the n-th page instead of collecting all), or build the page list once per BackdropCheck::update call and pass it down. A regression test could count how many pages one page_backdrop call materialises, or assert a generous time bound on a few thousand pages. (add_background itself has the same page_list(doc)[i] shape per page; that is older code and I am not asking for it to change here.)

Verification (Linux validation host, this exact head; hosted CI is also green on ubuntu, windows, wasm32 and licences):

• cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-edit: 166 passed. -p pdfcraft-engine: 274 passed, 1 ignored. -p pdfcraft-automation: all suites passed, including tests/backdrop.rs.
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --no-fail-fast: 1279 passed, 1 failed, 5 ignored. The failure is system_fonts::tests::a_script_fallback_is_the_first_candidate_with_the_probe, in a file this PR does not touch. It fails only because my harness sets PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0; with that variable unset it passes. marks::the_background_dialog_offers_to_replace_a_white_backdrop_and_warns_about_scans passes.
• cargo clippy -p pdfcraft-edit -p pdfcraft-engine -p pdfcraft-automation -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean. cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets, cargo xtask parity --partial: pass. cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown for edit and engine: pass.
• Red check: I kept every test and neutralised only the call site (if bg.replace_backdrop became if false && bg.replace_backdrop in add_background). All three new test layers then fail at their intended assertions, not at compilation: the edit unit test at backdrop_tests.rs:82 (left ... re f Q ..., right ... re n Q ...), the automation test at tests/backdrop.rs:93 (left [255,255,255], right [255,0,0]), and the dialog test at ui_group/marks.rs:159 (left Some(Fill), right None).
• I read all of backdrop.rs for never-crash: no unwrap/expect/panic or unchecked indexing outside tests; scan, operator, nesting and byte caps are in place; NaN/overflow cases fall to "not a backdrop".

Not verified: Acrobat's or other viewers' behaviour on such pages (the PR says it is unobserved); the "checked by eye in the app" claim; the other languages' translations beyond placeholders being kept ({n} is present in all 22 files). Replacing the backdrop by default edits page content in a copy; the PR flags this itself as a design decision for a human to confirm. Minor: the white test accepts components of 0.98 or more, so a very light grey fill (the tests use 0.99 g) is replaced too.

[alehel]

Thanks, @FredApps. The finding was right: page_of built every page to return one. Fixed in 0b63f5a.

What changed

• New pdfcraft_edit::page_backdrops(doc, pages) walks the page tree once for a batch. The dialog checks one batch of 24 a frame, and doc_backdrops makes one call for all its pages.
• scan and replace now take the Page, so add_background no longer walks the tree twice more per page to replace a backdrop. The older page_list(doc)[i] shape in add_background/add_watermark is unchanged, as you suggested. That's a follow-up.
• A page past the end gives None without blanking the rest of the batch. The viewer's page count (info.pages) can disagree with the model's page tree on a malformed document.

Measured in release on synthetic flat page trees, the same shape as your bench, reproduced independently:

pages	1 frame now	1 frame before	whole check now	whole check before
1,000	0.8 ms	10 ms	17 ms	0.34 s (yours)
5,000	4.5 ms	106 ms	0.95 s	18.7 s (yours)
20,000	19 ms	464 ms	16 s	316 s (yours)

So a frame is one walk now. 20,000 pages is still a little over a 16 ms frame, and the whole check still grows with the square of the page count, just 24× more slowly. Fully linear would mean keeping the page list across frames. I left that out to keep the change small, and the description now states these numbers instead of "never stall".

Tests

• 4,000 pages checked in one batch under a generous 5 s bound. It takes 17.6 s with the old per-page lookup put back, and milliseconds with the fix.
• Batch order, plus a page past the end that hides nothing. This one failed with blank-the-batch.
• A background over several pages that share streams, replaced and then restored.

All of these pass, along with cargo test -p pdfcraft-edit (169), the automation backdrop suite, engine background, ui marks::, clippy -D warnings on the four crates, fmt, layers and assets.

On the 0.98 tolerance: that's deliberate. Writers emit 0.99 g or 0.9999 g for white, and the doc comment on WHITE now says a near-white fill counts too, changing the page by at most 2%.

[FredApps]

Re-reviewed 0b63f5a after review 5555444556. The requested per-frame batching change is implemented: BackdropCheck collects at most 24 distinct pending pages and makes one batch call, so page discovery is shared within a frame instead of repeated for every page. The automation command also uses one batch; invalid page indices do not erase valid answers. The updated description correctly acknowledges that the complete multi-frame scan remains quadratic and that very large documents may still exceed a frame budget. I am not treating this as fully linear or stall-free.

Verified hosted CI run 38999958158 at this head completed successfully. Ubuntu and Windows logs each show edit 169 passed and engine 274 passed/1 ignored, including the batch/order/missing-page and shared-stream restoration tests. The automation backdrop test and UI Background dialog test explicitly passed on both jobs. WASM and licences succeeded; fuzz was skipped. I did not independently rerun the author's timing benchmarks or the native app.

No remaining blocker from the earlier request. Retaining the page list across frames and the older add_background page-list costs are follow-up performance work, not claims resolved by this patch. The documented near-white threshold and unobserved Acrobat behavior remain limitations.

[mtlcl410]

A black-box pass on a21faed4 (Windows, CLI built from the PR head; MuPDF 1.27.2 reads the outputs). Each case: doc_backdrops, then doc_background on page 1 with #FFD000 and save, then doc_remove_marks with kind: background and save. I checked the page corner's colour, the extracted text, and the content streams' keys.

fixture	after Add background	after Remove background
one stream, 1 g 0 0 612 792 re f then text	corner yellow, text kept	white again, original stream back
… re ends stream 1, f … starts stream 2	yellow; only stream 2 is copied (/At 0)	original streams back
two pages share the stream, background on page 1 only	page 1 yellow, page 2 untouched on its original stream	both pages on the original stream
backdrop stream carries /VendorKey 7 /Filter /FlateDecode /DL 63	yellow, but the copy has only /PCBackdrop and /Filter	the original, with its keys, is back
the same stream listed twice: /Contents [10 0 R 10 0 R]	corner still white; doc_backdrops reports fill	original back

Detection, the split across streams, sharing between pages and restoring all work. Two small points, neither blocking:

1. The copy drops the original stream dictionary's other entries. replace builds the copy's dictionary from scratch (Dict::new() + /PCBackdrop). So while the background is on, a vendor key or other unknown entry on that content stream is missing from the saved file. It comes back only when the background is removed. CLAUDE.md asks to preserve unknown data. rewritten_contents in crates/edit/src/text.rs starts from s.dict.clone() and removes /Length; doing the same here keeps them. Remove /DL as well, since it would now be stale (Stream::flate already resets /Filter and /DecodeParms). unchanged_copy_of only reads /PCBackdrop, so the extra keys don't affect restoring.
2. A stream listed twice keeps the background hidden. replace swaps only the /Contents slot of the piece the fill was found in. The second reference to the same stream still paints the white fill, over the background. It's an unusual layout, but doc_backdrops reports the page as a replaceable fill, and the dialog says it will be replaced, so the result contradicts what the user was told. Two possible fixes: replace every slot that refers to that object with the copy (the operator offset is the same in each), or report such a page as not replaceable.

Fixtures and the runner are standard-library Python plus PyMuPDF, about 90 lines; happy to paste them if useful.

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Walkthrough

The change detects page backdrops and supports replacing eligible opaque white fills when adding a background. It restores unchanged fills when background marks are removed. Engine, automation, and UI code expose backdrop queries and replacement controls. Translation catalog hashes are updated.

Changes: Page backdrop handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect page backdrops crates/edit/src/backdrop.rs, crates/edit/src/backdrop_tests.rs, crates/engine/src/lib.rs	The editor detects qualifying opaque white fills and page-sized images. The engine exposes single-page and batch queries. Tests cover detection criteria and query behavior.
Replace and restore white fills crates/edit/src/backdrop.rs, crates/edit/src/lib.rs, crates/edit/src/backdrop_tests.rs	Background settings enable replacement by default. The editor updates a copied content stream and restores the original when the copy remains unchanged. The default background color also changes.
Expose backdrop queries to automation crates/automation/src/*, crates/automation/tests/backdrop.rs, parity/acrobat-features.toml, ROADMAP.md	Automation adds doc_backdrops and the replace_backdrop option for doc_background. Tests cover detection, rendering, saving, and restoration. Roadmap and parity entries describe the behavior.
Show backdrop status in the background dialog crates/ui-egui/src/commands.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/marks_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_group/marks.rs	The dialog incrementally checks pages, offers replacement for detected white fills, and warns when images can conceal the background. The preview displays schematic content over the background color.

Translation catalog hash updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update catalog hashes ATTRIBUTION.toml	The SHA-256 entries for the listed translation catalogs are updated.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BackgroundDialog
  participant add_background
  participant backdrop_replace
  participant PageContentStream
  participant remove_marks
  participant backdrop_restore
  BackgroundDialog->>add_background: Submit background settings
  add_background->>backdrop_replace: Replace eligible white fill
  backdrop_replace->>PageContentStream: Update copied stream
  remove_marks->>backdrop_restore: Restore unchanged replacement
  backdrop_restore->>PageContentStream: Restore original stream

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Suggested reviewers: fredapps

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 23584

No actionable issue remains before merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 23584

A specially prepared PDF can make removing or updating a background introduce previously hidden page content. The effect is confined to an authorized edit of that document, and normal undo remains available, but the restoration checks do not sufficiently constrain what content may be restored.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Background restoration promotes untrusted PDF metadata into authority to replace page content. A crafted stream containing n can identify an otherwise unrendered content stream as Original, with At=0 and Len covering its entire decoded content, and satisfy the equality check. Background update, or successful document-wide background removal, then activates that content without validating that the restored difference is only an eligible white fill. This introduces a document-integrity failure relative to the base, not a cross-document or operating-system privilege escalation.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified integrity exposure is confined to the edited PDF and its referenced streams. A crafted document can target multiple pages because engine background removal visits every page; the attacker must induce an authorized background update or a removal that successfully removes a background mark. The inspected path does not establish cross-document access or additional host privileges.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Attacker-controlled stream dictionaries supply Original, At and Len. With a current stream containing only n, At=0 and Len equal to the chosen original stream's decoded length, the reconstruction predicate succeeds for arbitrary replacement content. Restoration then installs that reference into page Contents. This bypasses the strict fill classifier used during legitimate replacement and can change visible document content during background cleanup.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Exact decoded-byte equality protects ordinary intervening edits, but restoration does not validate the recorded span as a fill operator or re-establish backdrop eligibility. The repository already recognizes that PDF-carried mark tags can be forged; the new restoration metadata crosses the same untrusted-file boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Snapshot rollback and undo limit recovery cost but do not reject a crafted restoration that produces valid, displayable content. Likewise, preserving shared originals prevents unintended mutation of other pages' source objects, but does not authenticate the destination reference accepted during restoration.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Treat persisted restoration metadata as untrusted. Constrain restoration to a difference proven to be the eligible white-fill operator under the relevant page context, retain the exact-byte guard, and add crafted-metadata cases covering arbitrary spans, unrelated originals, background update and document-wide removal.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
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Review comments at @crates/edit/src/backdrop.rs:
- Around line 77-112: Update scan to reject content streams that use
external-file entries, and update replace to copy the original stream dictionary
for inline streams while removing entries invalidated by the new Flate stream.
Preserve the existing backdrop replacement behavior for eligible inline streams.
- Around line 77-112: Update replace to replace every /Contents entry
referencing the detected original stream with the backdrop-adjusted copy, rather
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replaced, and preserve the existing handling of the detected piece and copy.

Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/marks_ui.rs:
- Around line 565-579: Update the checkbox visibility condition in the backdrop
options UI so Update mode shows the replace-backdrop choice when
`d.bg.replace_backdrop` is false, even if `n.fills` is zero. Preserve the
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[alehel]

@mtlcl410. Both findings are fixed in eca16e6.

What changed

• The backdrop copy now starts from the original stream's dictionary, so vendor keys and other unknown entries stay while the background is on. It drops /Length and /DL, and Stream::flate resets /Filter and /DecodeParms. Test: the_backdrop_copy_keeps_the_original_dictionary_less_its_old_encoding.
• Every /Contents slot that lists the original stream now gets the copy, and Remove puts the original back in each. Test: a_stream_listed_twice_is_replaced_in_both_slots_and_restored_in_both.
• Same commit: a content stream whose bytes live in an external file (/F) is no longer taken for a backdrop, since the page draws the file's bytes, not the inline ones.

[FredApps]

Read the whole change apart from the catalog rows and the checksum updates. Add Background now shows on pages that paint their own white backdrop (browser and print-driver PDFs), and says so for scans.

• Detection is strict, as documented: the first painting operator must be a single rectangle fill, opaque (ca, SMask and BM checked), in a white device colour, axis-aligned, with a known rectangular clip, covering the crop box. Anything else is treated as real content. Paths, text, strokes and sh before it end the search, q depth and the amount scanned are bounded, and a stream whose bytes live in an external file is left alone.
• Replacement turns the one fill operator into n in a copy of that content stream (the original may be shared by other pages), with the byte offset recorded in /PCBackdrop. The copy drops the old length and decode parameters, and a stream listed twice is replaced in both slots.
• Removing the background restores the original only when the copy still equals the original with that one operator changed, so an edited copy is kept and a bad offset can only mean no restore, never corrupted content. Undo works through the normal snapshot.
• A page-sized picture (a scan) is only reported, in the dialog and by doc_backdrops; the dialog checks 24 pages a frame, and the checkbox starts on each time it opens.

The default background colour changes to a stronger yellow so it is visible on screen, which the updated test follows. CI is green at this head. Approving.

[alehel]

I'm converting this back to a draft after discovering that /PCBackdrop can leak redacted content. Fixing and will reopen when handled.

[alehel]

Fixed

[FredApps]

Re-reviewed current head 120de55 while verifying the seven-PR combined build. Requesting changes for two reproduced false positives in backdrop detection. The preview-checkbox fix is present and its hosted tests pass, but the detector can still remove real content by default.

Validation on this exact head: five temporary focused pdfcraft-edit tests, 2 passed and 3 failed. Controls passed for a genuinely opaque white fill and a single translucent graphics state. Sequential partial graphics states and both TR/TR2 transfer functions failed. Actual generated PDFs rendered with Poppler confirm the visible changes; these are not merely source-level predictions. Tests were kept in an isolated validation checkout, not pushed.

Combined CI https://github.com/alehel/pdfcraft/actions/runs/40133174293 is genuinely green at 9a8af28 and contains this head: Linux 5,078 passed/22 skipped, Windows 5,051 passed/23 ignored. Those existing tests do not cover these cases. No independent native GUI session or private 57-check protocol verification claimed. The older per-frame batching fix is not being reopened.

[FredApps]

[P2] Preserve graphics-state fields omitted by a later gs

A gs dictionary changes only the keys it contains, but this assignment replaces the accumulated opacity decision and opaque_state treats omitted ca/SMask/BM as defaults. Reproduced with /Transparent << /ca 0.5 >>, /LineOnly << /LW 2 >> and content /Transparent gs /LineOnly gs 1 g 0 0 300 200 re f: page_backdrop incorrectly reports Fill and Add Background rewrites f to n. The single /Transparent case is correctly preserved. With a red background and replacement disabled, Poppler renders [255,128,128]; default replacement renders [255,0,0], losing the original translucent paint. Track the relevant graphics-state components across partial updates (and q/Q), rather than resetting omitted fields. Add a sequential-gs regression.

[FredApps]

[P2] Reject or evaluate transfer functions before classifying a white fill

Opaque input colour does not prove the rendered fill is white when ExtGState supplies TR or TR2. This predicate ignores both, while the renderer applies them. Reproduced separately for TR and TR2 using a Type 2 function /Domain [0 1] /C0 [1] /C1 [0] /N 1 and a full-page 1 g ... re f: the page visibly paints black, yet page_backdrop returns Fill and default Add Background replaces f with n. Poppler renders the replacement-disabled result black and the default result red. Conservatively decline replacement with a non-identity transfer function (preserving state and TR2 precedence), or evaluate it before deciding the fill is white. Add both TR and TR2 regression coverage.