Fix Rust DOCX VML and legacy table fidelity - #125
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Preserve requested CJK fonts and mixed table-cell run formatting, support legacy Word table layout semantics, and align VML textbox images with Microsoft 365 output.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDOCX parsing and rendering now support theme fonts, CJK typography, grid spacing, compatibility modes, styled runs, highlights, floating VML images, patterned borders, and expanded table layout. Windows fallback candidates and localized Chinese font-name mapping now include SimSun and SimHei. ChangesDOCX rendering
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Common DOCX constructs can lose or corrupt visible content and table formatting, so these fidelity regressions should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DOCXLoader
participant ParagraphParser
participant VMLImageExtractor
participant ParagraphRenderer
DOCXLoader->>ParagraphParser: load paragraph and run properties
ParagraphParser->>VMLImageExtractor: extract floating VML images
VMLImageExtractor-->>ParagraphParser: image positions and offsets
ParagraphParser->>ParagraphRenderer: styled runs and floating images
ParagraphRenderer->>ParagraphRenderer: apply grid spacing and render text
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Table-cell line wrapping currently chooses breakpoints using only the first run’s measurement style, which can produce incorrect wraps/overflows for mixed-format content and should be corrected before approval.
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Pull request overview
This PR improves Rust DOCX-to-PDF fidelity, focusing on East Asian font preservation, VML textbox image extraction, and substantially more accurate legacy table layout/rendering.
Changes:
- Normalize localized DOCX font names (e.g., 宋体/黑体) to SimSun/SimHei and add coverage tests.
- Add DOCX support for theme-based East Asian fonts, run-level font/highlight, VML textbox image anchoring, document grid metrics, and compatibility-mode-dependent spacing.
- Rework table parsing/rendering to handle spans/merges, per-cell borders/margins/vertical alignment, and mixed run-level formatting inside cells.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/pdf.rs | Improves font preference handling for localized Chinese font names and adds tests. |
| minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs | Major DOCX parsing/rendering updates: VML floating images, theme fonts, run-level styles, grid metrics, and substantially richer table layout/border logic. |
| minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf-cli/src/main.rs | Adds SimSun to fallback font discovery and updates the corresponding CLI test. |
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| let mut measurement_run = first_run.clone(); | ||
| measurement_run.font_name = runs.iter().find_map(|run| run.font_name.clone()); | ||
| let (text, styled_characters) = normalize_table_cell_runs(runs); | ||
| let wrapped_text = wrap_styled_text_with_font( | ||
| &text, |
| if pending_space { | ||
| let mut space = run.clone(); | ||
| space.text = " ".to_owned(); | ||
| text.push(' '); | ||
| characters.push(space); | ||
| } | ||
| let mut styled_character = run.clone(); | ||
| styled_character.text = character.to_string(); | ||
| text.push(character); | ||
| characters.push(styled_character); |
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In `@minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs`:
- Around line 719-727: Narrow the textbox filtering in the run-processing logic
so text is skipped only for shapes handled by read_vml_floating_images,
preserving textbox text for unsupported or text-only shapes. Align the condition
with that function’s actual floating-image and positioning criteria rather than
excluding every run containing or nested under txbxContent.
- Around line 875-882: Update the inset parsing logic to preserve
comma-separated component positions by mapping each trimmed component to an
optional parsed length instead of filtering failed entries. Apply the existing
defaults only when the corresponding positional value is missing or invalid, so
inputs such as ",7.2pt,," retain 7.2pt in the second component.
- Around line 2086-2097: Update the line-to-character mapping in
normalize_table_cell_runs around wrapped_text and push_styled_character so
separator spaces removed by wrap_styled_text_with_font are not assigned to the
next line; skip each dropped line-boundary space or use the wrapper’s
consumed-character index, preserving styled-character alignment for all
subsequent lines.
- Around line 1115-1119: Update read_table and the style-parsing flow to retain
table-style border definitions from word/styles.xml, resolve the referenced
table style by style ID, and apply its effective borders when table or cell
properties do not provide direct overrides. Preserve direct table and cell
border precedence, and limit the hard-coded af2 fallback to legacy cases where
style resolution is unavailable.
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| if run_node | ||
| .ancestors() | ||
| .any(|node| node.has_tag_name("txbxContent")) | ||
| || run_node | ||
| .descendants() | ||
| .any(|node| node.has_tag_name("txbxContent")) | ||
| { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Textbox text is now dropped from output.
This filter skips every run that is inside txbxContent or that contains txbxContent. read_vml_floating_images extracts only <drawing> images from those textboxes (lines 809-812) and never extracts text. A VML or DrawingML textbox that holds text therefore loses the text completely in the PDF. The filter is also wider than the image extraction, because it applies to shapes that are not position:absolute and to shapes with no image.
Consider limiting the skip to runs inside shapes that read_vml_floating_images actually handles, or extract textbox runs as floating content.
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In `@minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs` around lines 719 - 727, Narrow the
textbox filtering in the run-processing logic so text is skipped only for shapes
handled by read_vml_floating_images, preserving textbox text for unsupported or
text-only shapes. Align the condition with that function’s actual floating-image
and positioning criteria rather than excluding every run containing or nested
under txbxContent.
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| let values: Vec<_> = inset | ||
| .split(',') | ||
| .filter_map(|value| parse_vml_length(value.trim())) | ||
| .collect(); | ||
| ( | ||
| values.first().copied().unwrap_or(7.2), | ||
| values.get(1).copied().unwrap_or(3.6), | ||
| ) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Partially specified inset values lose their position.
filter_map removes entries that fail to parse, then values.first() and values.get(1) read by index. VML allows empty components, for example inset=",7.2pt,,". In that case the top value moves into index 0 and is applied as the left inset. Keep positions by mapping each component to Option<f32>.
🐛 Proposed fix
- let values: Vec<_> = inset
- .split(',')
- .filter_map(|value| parse_vml_length(value.trim()))
- .collect();
- (
- values.first().copied().unwrap_or(7.2),
- values.get(1).copied().unwrap_or(3.6),
- )
+ let values: Vec<Option<f32>> = inset
+ .split(',')
+ .map(|value| parse_vml_length(value.trim()))
+ .collect();
+ (
+ values.first().copied().flatten().unwrap_or(7.2),
+ values.get(1).copied().flatten().unwrap_or(3.6),
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| let values: Vec<_> = inset | |
| .split(',') | |
| .filter_map(|value| parse_vml_length(value.trim())) | |
| .collect(); | |
| ( | |
| values.first().copied().unwrap_or(7.2), | |
| values.get(1).copied().unwrap_or(3.6), | |
| ) | |
| let values: Vec<Option<f32>> = inset | |
| .split(',') | |
| .map(|value| parse_vml_length(value.trim())) | |
| .collect(); | |
| ( | |
| values.first().copied().flatten().unwrap_or(7.2), | |
| values.get(1).copied().flatten().unwrap_or(3.6), | |
| ) |
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In `@minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs` around lines 875 - 882, Update the
inset parsing logic to preserve comma-separated component positions by mapping
each trimmed component to an optional parsed length instead of filtering failed
entries. Apply the existing defaults only when the corresponding positional
value is missing or invalid, so inputs such as ",7.2pt,," retain 7.2pt in the
second component.
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| let style_has_grid = style_id == Some("af2"); | ||
| let use_style_borders = style_has_grid | ||
| && properties | ||
| .and_then(|node| child(node, "tblBorders")) | ||
| .is_none(); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Resolve table-style borders by style ID. read_table enables fallback borders only for af2; cells without tcBorders therefore render without borders for other bordered styles, such as TableGrid, even when word/styles.xml defines them. Retain table-style border definitions during style parsing and apply the referenced style's effective borders, while preserving direct table and cell overrides. Keep af2 only as a legacy fallback if required.
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In `@minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs` around lines 1115 - 1119, Update
read_table and the style-parsing flow to retain table-style border definitions
from word/styles.xml, resolve the referenced table style by style ID, and apply
its effective borders when table or cell properties do not provide direct
overrides. Preserve direct table and cell border precedence, and limit the
hard-coded af2 fallback to legacy cases where style resolution is unavailable.
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| wrapped_text | ||
| .into_iter() | ||
| .map(|line| { | ||
| let mut output = Vec::new(); | ||
| for _ in line.chars() { | ||
| if let Some(character) = characters.next() { | ||
| push_styled_character(&mut output, character); | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| output | ||
| }) | ||
| .collect() |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win
Wrapping at a space drops characters and shifts run styles.
normalize_table_cell_runs keeps one space character in both text and styled_characters. wrap_styled_text_with_font rebuilds lines with split_whitespace, so the space at each wrap point is not present in any returned line. This loop advances characters by exactly line.chars().count(), so the surviving space entry is consumed by the next line.
Example: text = "aaa bbb" and characters = [a,a,a,' ',b,b,b]. The wrapper returns ["aaa", "bbb"]. Line 1 consumes a,a,a. Line 2 consumes ' ',b,b, so the cell renders a leading space and loses the final b. Every later line in the same cell stays offset by one character.
Skip the separator characters at line boundaries, or return the consumed index from the wrapper.
🐛 Proposed fix sketch
let mut characters = styled_characters.into_iter().peekable();
wrapped_text
.into_iter()
- .map(|line| {
+ .enumerate()
+ .map(|(line_index, line)| {
+ if line_index > 0 {
+ // consume separator characters removed by the wrapper
+ while characters
+ .peek()
+ .is_some_and(|character| character.text == " ")
+ {
+ characters.next();
+ }
+ }
let mut output = Vec::new();
for _ in line.chars() {
if let Some(character) = characters.next() {
push_styled_character(&mut output, character);
}
}
output
})
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| wrapped_text | |
| .into_iter() | |
| .map(|line| { | |
| let mut output = Vec::new(); | |
| for _ in line.chars() { | |
| if let Some(character) = characters.next() { | |
| push_styled_character(&mut output, character); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| output | |
| }) | |
| .collect() | |
| let mut characters = styled_characters.into_iter().peekable(); | |
| wrapped_text | |
| .into_iter() | |
| .enumerate() | |
| .map(|(line_index, line)| { | |
| if line_index > 0 { | |
| // consume separator characters removed by the wrapper | |
| while characters | |
| .peek() | |
| .is_some_and(|character| character.text == " ") | |
| { | |
| characters.next(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| let mut output = Vec::new(); | |
| for _ in line.chars() { | |
| if let Some(character) = characters.next() { | |
| push_styled_character(&mut output, character); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| output | |
| }) | |
| .collect() |
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In `@minipdf-rs/crates/minipdf/src/docx.rs` around lines 2086 - 2097, Update the
line-to-character mapping in normalize_table_cell_runs around wrapped_text and
push_styled_character so separator spaces removed by wrap_styled_text_with_font
are not assigned to the next line; skip each dropped line-boundary space or use
the wrapper’s consumed-character index, preserving styled-character alignment
for all subsequent lines.
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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli.
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