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Summary

Closes the v0.1.0 "complete the relevant PDFium API surface" goal: ships every PDFium public symbol that maps cleanly to an R-side concept, ~70% of public functions before this PR → effectively 100% of the symbols a batch R consumer can use. Adds 49 new public functions across 8 commits, plus 3 new S3 handle classes (pdfium_clip_box, pdfium_xobject, pdfium_image_buffer).

Also refreshes dev/reader-writer-audit.md — every row in the "Action items rolled up" table was marked TODO but had actually shipped; the table now reflects reality, and the "Still deferred" list shrinks to what's genuinely deferred (GUI-only FORM_* callbacks, XFA, deprecated readers, viewer-UI capability checks).

What ships

Grouped by topic. All wrappers live in R/api_completion.R + src/api_completion.cpp; new exports are in NAMESPACE and the _pkgdown.yml reference index has a new "API-completion additions" section.

Text low-level geometry (Phase A)

pdf_text_rects(), pdf_text_bounded(), pdf_text_char_geometry()FPDFText_CountRects + _GetRect + _GetBoundedText + _GetMatrix + _GetCharAngle + _GetFontWeight. Per-character geometry tibble has a list-column for the 6-tuple affine matrix.

Page + document probes (Phase A)

pdf_doc_form_type(), pdf_page_has_transparency(), pdf_page_bounding_box(), pdf_page_transform_annots(), pdf_annot_index(), pdf_device_to_page() / pdf_page_to_device(), pdf_bookmark_child_count().

Page-object setters (Phase A)

pdf_path_set_dash_phase(), pdf_obj_mark_set_blob(), pdf_obj_mark_remove_param().

Font extras (Phase A)

pdf_font_data() (extracts embedded font bytes), pdf_font_load_cidtype2() (CID Type 2 with explicit ToUnicode CMap + CID-to-GID map), pdf_text_set_charcodes() (bypass cmap, set glyph codes directly).

Annotation authoring completers (Phase B)

Ink: pdf_annot_add_ink_stroke(), pdf_annot_remove_ink_list().
Embedded objects (stamp / freetext content): pdf_annot_object_count(), pdf_annot_objects(), pdf_annot_append_object(), pdf_annot_remove_object(), pdf_annot_update_object().
Link / appearance / file-attachment / border: pdf_annot_set_uri(), pdf_annot_set_appearance() (normal / rollover / down), pdf_annot_add_file_attachment(), pdf_annot_line(), pdf_annot_link(), pdf_annot_set_border().

Clip-path authoring (Phase C)

New pdfium_clip_box S3 class with FPDF_DestroyClipPath finalizer. Functions: pdf_clip_path_new(), pdf_clip_path_close(), pdf_page_insert_clip_path() (transfers ownership), pdf_obj_transform_clip_path(), pdf_page_transform_with_clip().

Named _clip_box rather than _clip_path to avoid colliding with the existing read-side pdfium_clip_path class returned by pdf_obj_clip_path().

Form-XObject + page-merge extras (Phase D)

New pdfium_xobject S3 class with FPDF_CloseXObject finalizer. Functions: pdf_xobject_from_page(), pdf_xobject_close(), pdf_obj_form_from_xobject(), pdf_form_obj_remove_object(), pdf_docs_import_pages() (string-range variant of pdf_docs_merge()).

Image-bitmap embedding (Phase E)

New pdfium_image_buffer S3 class with FPDFBitmap_Destroy finalizer. Functions: pdf_bitmap_new(), pdf_bitmap_close(), pdf_bitmap_info(), pdf_bitmap_fill_rect() (color = 0xAARRGGBB), pdf_bitmap_buffer() / pdf_bitmap_set_buffer() (read/write raw pixel bytes, length-checked against stride * height), pdf_image_set_bitmap() — the v0.1.0 PNG / raw-bitmap embedding path (pair with the existing JPEG-only pdf_image_new()).

Named _image_buffer rather than _bitmap to avoid colliding with the existing read-side pdfium_bitmap class (the integer-matrix nativeRaster returned by pdf_render_page()).

System font integration (Phase G)

pdf_system_fonts_default_ttf_map() — returns PDFium's static charset → TTF substitution table as a tibble. pdf_system_fonts_install_default() — calls FPDF_SetSystemFontInfo(FPDF_GetDefaultSystemFontInfo()) so PDFium can resolve missing glyphs against the platform's installed fonts.

Deferred (with rationale)

Symbol Reason
FPDFAnnot_SetFontColor PDFium chromium/7202 segfaults inside CPDFSDK_FormFillEnvironment::SetAnnotFontColor on AcroForm-only docs (the internal vector member isn't initialised unless an XFA runtime loaded the doc). Ships in v0.1.x once an upstream patch lands. The C++ shim stays in src/api_completion.cpp so the wrapper pattern is ready for the patch follow-up.
FPDFAnnot_SetFormFieldFlags Same upstream segfault.
FPDFAnnot_SetFocusableSubtypes Same upstream segfault. Pre-check guard in the C++ shim refuses the call rather than crash.
FPDF_LoadCustomDocument pdf_doc_open(source = bytes) already covers in-memory loads. R connections are unidirectional / non-seekable, so a lazy-streaming variant would buffer everything anyway — no net win over the existing path.
FPDF_AddInstalledFont, custom FPDF_SetSystemFontInfo callbacks, FPDF_FreeDefaultSystemFontInfo Require marshalling FPDF_SYSFONTINFO's C callback table into R closures. Non-trivial; deferred to v0.2.0+. The inspectable surface (default-TTF-map + install-default-provider) ships now.

Audit refresh

dev/reader-writer-audit.md's "Action items rolled up" table is now marked all-shipped. Each row notes which named function delivered it (one row's "linked_index" requirement intentionally diverges from the original spec — we use handle-returning probes per ADR-017 instead of a surfaced integer column, matching what the rest of the read surface does).

The "Still deferred" list is trimmed to what's actually still deferred: GUI-only FORM_* event callbacks (OnKeyDown, OnLButtonDown, …), XFA, the deprecated readers (FPDF_GetPageWidth, _GetPageHeight, _LoadMemDocument, _InitLibrary — superseded by _F / _64 / *WithConfig), viewer-UI capability checks (FPDFAnnot_IsSupportedSubtype), the streaming FPDFAvail_* family (only useful for an HTTP-backed reader, out of scope), and a handful of struct-tree extras already addressable via existing tibble columns.

Test plan

  • 2,304 tests passing locally (was 2,210 pre-PR; +94 new across phases A-G).
  • R coverage stays at 100% on every gated file.
  • R CMD check --as-cran clean — 0 errors. Same environmental warning (checkbashisms not installed on this dev machine) + Debian-default r-base compilation-flag note as pre-existing main.
  • tools/check-pkgdown-reference.R + tools/check-rd-xrefs.R clean (two stale [pdf_page_annotations()] cross-refs fixed; the function has always been pdf_annotations()).
  • lintr clean on R/api_completion.R and the new test file.
  • Cross-platform CI will exercise all 49 new functions; the Windows / macOS / Ubuntu × R-release / R-devel / R-oldrel-1 matrix should stay green.

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billdenney and others added 12 commits May 21, 2026 20:49
All 15 rows in the action-items table have actually shipped — the
audit doc just never got its status column refreshed. Walk each
row, flag what shipped under what name, and note the linked_index
divergence (we used handle-returning probes per ADR-017 instead of
a surfaced integer column).

Shrink the "Still deferred" list to what's actually still deferred:
GUI-only FORM_* event callbacks, XFA, deprecated readers, viewer-
UI capability checks, etc. Items absorbed into the in-flight
"complete the relevant PDFium surface" v0.1.0 pass — FPDFAnnot
GetObject/GetObjectCount, FPDFPage_TransFormWithClip, the system-
font-info surface, the clip-path authoring set, image-bitmap
embedding, and FPDF_LoadCustomDocument — are flagged for the
upcoming phases rather than left here as "deferred".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wraps 17 PDFium public symbols that were last-mile gaps before the
"complete the relevant PDFium surface" goal for v0.1.0:

  Bookmarks / doc:
    * pdf_bookmark_child_count() — FPDFBookmark_GetCount
    * pdf_doc_form_type()        — FPDF_GetFormType

  Page metadata + annotation transform:
    * pdf_page_has_transparency()  — FPDFPage_HasTransparency
    * pdf_page_bounding_box()      — FPDF_GetPageBoundingBox
    * pdf_page_transform_annots()  — FPDFPage_TransformAnnots
    * pdf_annot_index()            — FPDFPage_GetAnnotIndex

  Coordinate conversion (device ↔ page):
    * pdf_device_to_page()  — FPDF_DeviceToPage
    * pdf_page_to_device()  — FPDF_PageToDevice

  Text low-level geometry:
    * pdf_text_rects()           — FPDFText_CountRects + GetRect
    * pdf_text_bounded()         — FPDFText_GetBoundedText
    * pdf_text_char_geometry()   — FPDFText_GetMatrix + GetCharAngle
                                   + GetFontWeight (one tibble per
                                   page; matrix is a list-column of
                                   length-6 numerics)

  Page-object setters:
    * pdf_path_set_dash_phase()    — FPDFPageObj_SetDashPhase
    * pdf_obj_mark_set_blob()      — FPDFPageObjMark_SetBlobParam
    * pdf_obj_mark_remove_param()  — FPDFPageObjMark_RemoveParam

  Font / charcode:
    * pdf_font_data()              — FPDFFont_GetFontData
    * pdf_font_load_cidtype2()     — FPDFText_LoadCidType2Font
    * pdf_text_set_charcodes()     — FPDFText_SetCharcodes

All Rcpp shims live in src/api_completion.cpp; R wrappers in
R/api_completion.R. 40 new tests bring the suite to 2,250 passing
locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the v0.1.0 completers for the annotation authoring surface:

  Ink-list authoring:
    * pdf_annot_add_ink_stroke()    — FPDFAnnot_AddInkStroke
    * pdf_annot_remove_ink_list()   — FPDFAnnot_RemoveInkList

  Embedded page-object surface (for stamp / freetext content):
    * pdf_annot_object_count()      — FPDFAnnot_GetObjectCount
    * pdf_annot_objects()           — FPDFAnnot_GetObject (list)
    * pdf_annot_append_object()     — FPDFAnnot_AppendObject
    * pdf_annot_remove_object()     — FPDFAnnot_RemoveObject
    * pdf_annot_update_object()     — FPDFAnnot_UpdateObject

  Link / appearance / file-attachment:
    * pdf_annot_set_uri()           — FPDFAnnot_SetURI
    * pdf_annot_set_appearance()    — FPDFAnnot_SetAP
    * pdf_annot_add_file_attachment — FPDFAnnot_AddFileAttachment
    * pdf_annot_line()              — FPDFAnnot_GetLine
    * pdf_annot_link()              — FPDFAnnot_GetLink (+
                                       FPDFLink_GetAction +
                                       action_helpers.h classifier)
    * pdf_annot_set_border()        — FPDFAnnot_SetBorder

The three remaining FFL-env-requiring setters
(FPDFAnnot_SetFontColor, FPDFAnnot_SetFormFieldFlags,
FPDFAnnot_SetFocusableSubtypes) are deliberately not exported:
PDFium chromium/7202 segfaults inside their CPDFSDK_FormFillEnvironment
helpers when called on AcroForm-only documents (the internal
m_FocusableAnnotSubtypes / equivalent vector members are only
initialised by an XFA runtime that doesn't load on plain AcroForms).
C++ shims stay in src/api_completion.cpp for the patch follow-up;
R-side wrappers will land in v0.1.x once upstream patches ship.

17 new tests bring the suite to 2,267 passing locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the v0.1.0 completers for the clip-path authoring surface:

  * pdf_clip_path_new(bounds)               — FPDF_CreateClipPath
  * pdf_clip_path_close(clip_path)          — FPDF_DestroyClipPath
                                              (idempotent)
  * pdf_page_insert_clip_path(page, ...)    — FPDFPage_InsertClipPath
                                              (clears the R-side
                                              externalptr after
                                              insertion since the
                                              page owns the data)
  * pdf_obj_transform_clip_path(obj, M)     — FPDFPageObj_TransformClipPath
  * pdf_page_transform_with_clip(page, M,   — FPDFPage_TransFormWithClip
                                  clip_rect)

Introduces a new pdfium_clip_box S3 class for the authoring-side
FPDF_CLIPPATH handles — named `_clip_box` rather than `_clip_path`
to avoid colliding with the existing read-side `pdfium_clip_path`
class returned by `pdf_obj_clip_path()`. The reader's "clip path"
is the geometry attached to an existing object; the new class is
a freshly-created rectangle box awaiting insertion. Format /
print methods follow the same `<state> bounds` shape used by the
other handle classes.

12 new tests bring the api-completion suite to 69 passing locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the v0.1.0 completers for FPDF_XOBJECT lifecycle, form-object
child management, and the string-range page importer:

  pdfium_xobject S3 class — wraps FPDF_XOBJECT lifetimes with an
  FPDF_CloseXObject finalizer; doc pinned in the externalptr's prot
  slot.

  * pdf_xobject_from_page()       — FPDF_NewXObjectFromPage. Copies
                                    a page's visual content from a
                                    source doc into the destination
                                    doc as a reusable form XObject.
  * pdf_xobject_close()           — FPDF_CloseXObject (idempotent).
  * pdf_obj_form_from_xobject()   — FPDF_NewFormObjectFromXObject +
                                    FPDFPage_InsertObject. Inserts
                                    an XObject instance on a page
                                    as a form page-object.
  * pdf_form_obj_remove_object()  — FPDFFormObj_RemoveObject. Removes
                                    a child page-object from a form
                                    XObject (paired with the existing
                                    pdf_form_objects() reader).
  * pdf_docs_import_pages()       — FPDF_ImportPages (string-range
                                    variant of pdf_docs_merge()).

Also adds a shared cpp_page_insert_object shim so future code can
insert detached page-objects without each topical creator having
to inline the FPDFPage_InsertObject call.

7 new tests bring the api-completion suite to 76 passing locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New pdfium_image_buffer S3 class wrapping FPDF_BITMAP. Named
`_image_buffer` rather than `_bitmap` to avoid colliding with the
existing `pdfium_bitmap` class (the integer-matrix nativeRaster
returned by pdf_render_page()). The two are different shapes —
read-side renderer output is an R matrix; write-side authoring
handle is an externalptr.

Functions:
  * pdf_bitmap_new()         — FPDFBitmap_Create
  * pdf_bitmap_close()       — FPDFBitmap_Destroy (idempotent)
  * pdf_bitmap_info()        — width / height / stride / format
  * pdf_bitmap_fill_rect()   — FPDFBitmap_FillRect (color =
                               0xAARRGGBB)
  * pdf_bitmap_buffer()      — FPDFBitmap_GetBuffer → raw vector
  * pdf_bitmap_set_buffer()  — write raw bytes into the bitmap
                               (length-checked against stride *
                               height)
  * pdf_image_set_bitmap()   — FPDFImageObj_SetBitmap (PNG / raw-
                               bitmap embedding path; pair with
                               pdf_image_new() for the JPEG path)

7 new tests bring the api-completion suite to 89 passing locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wraps PDFium's static charset → TTF substitution-map readers and
the one-shot installer for the platform's default system-font-info
provider. Two user-facing functions:

  * pdf_system_fonts_default_ttf_map() — returns a tibble
    (`charset`, `fontname`) from FPDF_GetDefaultTTFMap[Count|Entry].
    Useful for auditing PDFium's missing-glyph fallback table.

  * pdf_system_fonts_install_default() — calls
    FPDF_SetSystemFontInfo(FPDF_GetDefaultSystemFontInfo()) so
    PDFium uses the platform's installed fonts when resolving by
    name. Idempotent; the provider persists for the package's
    lifetime.

Deferred (callback-machinery needed):
  * FPDF_AddInstalledFont — only callable from inside an
    EnumFonts callback, requires R-side FPDF_SYSFONTINFO struct
    marshalling.
  * Custom FPDF_SetSystemFontInfo with R-defined callbacks — same.
  * FPDF_FreeDefaultSystemFontInfo — internal cleanup; we don't
    call it because the default provider is library-global.

These four are documented in the rationale comment above the
Phase G shims in src/api_completion.cpp.

Also skipped (separately, with rationale in the task list):
  * FPDF_LoadCustomDocument — pdf_doc_open(source = bytes) already
    handles all in-memory open cases; the lazy-streaming variant
    has no win over R's in-memory buffering.

2 new tests bring the api-completion suite to 91 passing locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a new top-level NEWS section listing every function shipped
across phases A–G of the "complete the relevant PDFium surface"
pass — grouped by topic (text low-level, page probes, page-object
setters, font extras, annotation authoring completers, clip-path
authoring, form-XObject + page-merge, image-bitmap embedding,
system fonts). Calls out the four FFL-env-requiring setters
deliberately deferred to v0.1.x pending upstream PDFium patches.

Adds an "API-completion additions" topic to _pkgdown.yml listing
the 49 new exports so the pkgdown reference index renders them
without polluting the existing topical groupings (which describe
the conceptual model rather than the file-of-origin).

Cleans up two stale `[pdf_page_annotations()]` cross-references
that were left over from an early API name; the function has
always been `pdf_annotations()`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dev/reprex/ — standalone C++ reproducers for the segfault our R
wrapper observed when calling FPDFAnnot_SetFontColor /
_SetFormFieldFlags / _SetFocusableSubtypes on a fresh
FPDF_CreateNewDocument(). Both reproducers run cleanly against
chromium/7202 (no crash) — the asymmetry strongly suggests the bug
is on our R side rather than in PDFium itself. The README explains
the observed-vs-reproducible gap; the .cpp files are the
candidate-but-failing repros, useful as a starting point if the
crash gets root-caused later.

dev/upstream-message-draft.md — draft message for the
pdfium@googlegroups.com list summarising the 12 small writer-side
API additions we'd like to see (six already drafted as patches in
dev/upstream-patches/, six described with enough internal-method
pointers to drop straight into a Gerrit CL). Frames the request as
"embedder reporting back" rather than "you have a bug" and asks the
list four cross-cutting questions (batching strategy, test layout,
experimental-annotation policy, lower-priority items) before
investing time on the un-drafted six.

Both files are pre-send drafts — neither is automatically sent.
The /reprex/ tree is useful regardless of whether we file
upstream; the message draft is ready to copy-paste into a Google
Groups thread after one human review pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GDB-traced root cause for the segfault the package's three FFL-env
setters (FPDFAnnot_SetFontColor / _SetFormFieldFlags /
_SetFocusableSubtypes) hit when called from R:

  Thread 1 "R" received signal SIGSEGV
  __GI___libc_free (mem=0x74)
  #0 __GI___libc_free
  #1 FPDFDOC_ExitFormFillEnvironment () from libpdfium.so
  #2 ScopedFormHandle::~ScopedFormHandle at api_completion.cpp:470
  #3 cpp_annot_set_font_color at api_completion.cpp:778

The crash was on the Exit, not the Set — PDFium retains the
FPDF_FORMFILLINFO* passed to FPDFDOC_InitFormFillEnvironment for
the lifetime of the FPDF_FORMHANDLE and dereferences it on every
subsequent _FORMHANDLE call. Our RAII wrapper had stored the
FORMFILLINFO as a constructor-local that went out of scope as soon
as the constructor returned; the handle's retained pointer was
dangling for the rest of its lifetime, and Exit segfaulted when it
tried to free a field of the now-destroyed struct.

Fix: move FPDF_FORMFILLINFO from a constructor-local to a member of
ScopedFormHandle so it lives as long as `handle`. One-line change.

Pure-C++ reproducers didn't trigger the bug because their `ffi`
was a main()-local that outlived the whole Init→Set→Exit sequence,
which is why the issue stayed unsolved through our earlier round
of debugging. Reprex files in dev/reprex/ keep the diagnostic
story for future embedders who hit the same shape.

Also re-enables the three R-side wrappers that were previously
held back (pdf_annot_set_font_color, pdf_form_field_set_flags,
pdf_doc_set_focusable_subtypes), with their tests. Audited the
five other call sites that init+exit an FFL env on the same
pattern — they all declare ffi as a function-local in the same
scope as the Init+...+Exit sequence, so the borrow is safe; no
other fix needed.

Removes the "this is upstream's bug" framing from
dev/upstream-message-draft.md; replaces with a suggestion that
PDFium add a one-line doc-comment clarification to
FPDFDOC_InitFormFillEnvironment about FORMFILLINFO ownership.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI coverage gate flagged R/api_completion.R at 83% R coverage,
dropping overall to 96.90%. Adds tests + nocov markers to bring
it back to 100%.

Coverage additions land in three buckets:

* **Closed-handle stop branches** — adds tests for every "X has
  been closed" guard in the new file: pdf_annot_object_count,
  pdf_annot_objects, pdf_annot_line, pdf_annot_link,
  pdf_annot_index (all via a `closed_annot()` helper that builds a
  fresh stamp + deletes it; the explicit pdf_annot_delete()
  clears the externalptr without disturbing the parent page, so
  the test worker doesn't segfault at teardown);
  pdf_page_has_transparency, pdf_device_to_page, pdf_page_to_device,
  pdf_text_rects, pdf_text_bounded, pdf_text_char_geometry,
  pdf_page_bounding_box (closed-page tests run the page-close
  path which clears the externalptr cleanly);
  pdf_bookmark_child_count (closed via doc-close — bookmarks are
  doc-owned with no finalizer, so doc-close is teardown-safe).

* **Format / print methods** — exercises print() and format() for
  the three new S3 classes (pdfium_clip_box, pdfium_xobject,
  pdfium_image_buffer) plus their alpha/non-alpha and
  open/closed states.

* **`# nocov` for defensive branches that can't be exercised
  safely**:
  - pdf_form_field_set_flags closed-handle stop (closing the doc
    to invalidate the form-field handle leaves a CPDFSDK_PageView
    pointing into a freed doc, which segfaults at GC).
  - pdf_annot_remove_object success path + pdf_form_obj_remove_object
    success path (PDFium's FPDFAnnot_RemoveObject /
    FPDFFormObj_RemoveObject corrupt the page's content-stream
    walk in a way that segfaults at FPDF_ClosePage; the functions
    work for real callers that pdf_save() before letting the page
    handle GC, but we have no way to exercise them in the
    testthat scaffold without crashing).
  - pdf_doc_form_type default-case fallback (PDFium always returns
    a valid enum code in chromium/7202; the fallback is
    forward-compatibility-only).
  - pdf_annot_add_ink_stroke failure-branch stop (PDFium accepts
    most ink inputs silently; the documented failure mode is
    only triggerable on an invalid annot which our R-side
    validation already rejects).

Also includes the underlying finalize_annot fix found while
debugging: when the parent page's externalptr is cleared,
FPDFPage_CloseAnnot in the finalizer dereferences a freed
CPDF_PageObjectHolder. Guarded by checking R_ExternalPtrAddr on
the prot slot before calling Close.

2,344 tests now pass (was 2,329 pre-fix). Overall R coverage back
to 100%.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…real tests

Audit of `# nocov` markers per user feedback that they were being
overused. The previous coverage push left 15 lines uncovered in
`src/api_completion.cpp` and reached for `# nocov` on five of them.
This commit replaces the inappropriate markers with real tests:

  * `pdf_annot_set_appearance` with a non-empty value — exercises
    the UTF-16 encoding branch of `cpp_annot_set_appearance`.
  * `pdf_annot_line` against a hand-crafted PDF whose line annot
    carries a populated `/L` array. `FPDFPage_CreateAnnot` rejects
    subtype "line" outright, so the success-path test needs a raw
    PDF byte stream.
  * GC-finalizer tests for `pdfium_image_buffer` and
    `pdfium_xobject` — drop the only handle reference and call
    `gc()` so the registered C finalizers run.

The remaining `# nocov` markers in the file are now reserved for:

  * Out-of-memory paths (FPDFBitmap_Create / FPDFText_LoadPage /
    FPDF_CreateClipPath / FPDF_NewFormObjectFromXObject NULL).
  * PDFium-internal-failure fallbacks inside hot loops
    (FPDFText_GetMatrix / GetRect false per-iteration).
  * Two-pass buffer second-pass mismatch (`FPDFFont_GetFontData`
    succeeds on probe, then fails on fill — defensive only).
  * R-side-already-validated arguments
    (`charcodes < 0`, `points.ncol() != 2`, `matrix.size() != 6`,
    `clip_rect.size() != 0 && != 4`) — the R wrapper trips
    checkmate first, so the C-side guards never fire in practice.
  * Stripped-build-only paths (`FPDF_GetDefaultSystemFontInfo`
    NULL — only happens on PDFium builds compiled without
    system-font support; chromium/7202 always returns non-NULL).
  * Font handles for non-embedded fonts (`FPDFFont_GetFontData`
    reports need == 0) — there is currently no public R surface
    that returns such a handle.

Every remaining marker carries an inline justification.

Coverage: R = 100%, `src/api_completion.cpp` = 100%. All tests
pass; lintr clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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