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Measured on a 4-core Debian 13 machine, with 200×55 cells of 8×16 pixels and 2000×3000 scanned pages:

path	before	after
Bubble Tea flush with a 3 MB kitty upload	11.9 ms, 12.6 MB	56 µs, 273 KB
frame build per message	626 µs, 3.3 MB	23 µs, 190 KB
half-block webtoon frame	25.4 ms	0.8 ms
pan step on a rotated, zoomed page	72 ms, 56.7 MB	48 ms, 5.1 MB
2,874-page FB2 with Noto Sans CJK installed	500 MB	124 MB

Bubble Tea copies each frame string into its buffer, copies it three more times per flush and parses every changed line twice. Frames now carry a short APC marker for each kitty upload, and the terminal writer splices the upload back in. A marker stays the same while its upload does, so Bubble Tea still skips the unchanged line. The writer and its synchronized-output framing move from main.go into the ui package.

Half-block webtoon frames were composed at the terminal's full pixel size and then shrunk to one pixel per cell across. ComposeWebtoon now takes the size of one frame pixel and builds the same layout at that size. Narrow pages keep their on-screen size.

Every render of a rotated page copied the whole page again, twice for JPEG pages. The two latest rotations stay cached, which covers a spread, two panes or the pages of a webtoon frame. Recycling a frame drops its rotations.

Laid-out text kept every shaped glyph as an 80-byte shaping.Glyph, but painting and selection read only six of its fields. Pages now keep those six in 24 bytes, and the painter takes each glyph's ink bounds from its outline. Page rasters stay byte-identical, checked on a mixed-script EPUB with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK, ruby and combining marks.

System fallback font collections now load only their first face. The faces of Noto Sans CJK and of the macOS and Windows collections cover the same characters, and each parsed face copied the shared tables: about 200 MB for Noto Sans CJK, paid by every text book. A font set with CBZR_EPUB_FALLBACK_FONT keeps all its faces.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The changes since the last review appear safe to merge.

Summary

This PR reduces terminal rendering work and text-book memory use.

• Kitty uploads stay out of Bubble Tea's frame copies.
• Half-block webtoon frames use only the pixels they can show.
• Rotated pages reuse recent turns instead of copying pixels.
• EPUB books keep less font and glyph data in memory.

Since the last review, the code rounds coarse frame heights down to preserve the full column count and documents the rotation cache’s source-image requirement. No new actionable issues were found.

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• New Features

  • Webtoon pages can now be scaled to match terminal pixel dimensions, including narrow pages.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved EPUB text and glyph rendering, including font collection handling, ruby annotations, and glyph outlines.
  • Fixed stale image data appearing after recycled images are rotated.
  • Improved terminal image output by reusing recent uploads and keeping frame updates synchronized.

This pull request updates EPUB font parsing and glyph rendering, adds rotation-result caching and webtoon pixel-unit scaling, and changes terminal image uploads to use frame markers that are expanded when output is written.

Changes: EPUB font and glyph handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Limit parsed font faces internal/book/epub_font.go, internal/book/epub_font_test.go, internal/book/epub_layout_test.go	Fallback and bundled font parsing now accept a face limit. Tests check parsing one face from a font collection.
Store EPUB shaping data internal/book/epub_layout.go, internal/book/select.go, internal/book/epub_layout_test.go, internal/book/epub_font_test.go	Layout copies run metrics and glyph data into explicit fields. Bounds, fit checks, ruby calculations, and text selection use those fields.
Rasterize from glyph outlines internal/book/epub_render.go	Rendering skips glyphs without drawable outlines and calculates raster bounds from outline segments.

Rotation cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache and invalidate rotations internal/render/transform.go, internal/render/render.go, internal/render/transform_test.go	Rotation reuses cached results and obtains buffers through the RGBA pool. Recycling an image clears matching cache entries. Tests cover reuse and invalidation.

Webtoon scaling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply pixel-unit scaling internal/render/webtoon.go, internal/render/webtoon_test.go, internal/ui/ui.go, internal/native/native_darwin.go	ComposeWebtoon accepts a unit that scales viewport dimensions and caps page scale. UI and macOS call sites pass the new argument, and tests check scaled output.

Terminal image uploads

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Collect uploads as frame markers internal/ui/output.go, internal/ui/ui.go, internal/ui/ui_test.go, internal/ui/performance_test.go, internal/ui/output_test.go	The model collects image uploads in a registry and places markers in frame output. Tests check marker retention and frame handling.
Substitute uploads when writing frames internal/ui/output.go, main.go, main_test.go	Output.Write substitutes registered upload data for terminated markers and wraps frame output in synchronized-update sequences. The application passes this writer to Bubble Tea.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Model
  participant UploadRegistry
  participant Output
  participant Terminal
  Model->>UploadRegistry: Register upload data and emit markers
  Model->>Output: Provide frame bytes
  Output->>UploadRegistry: Resolve markers to upload data
  UploadRegistry-->>Output: Return matching upload bytes
  Output->>Terminal: Write synchronized frame

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Possibly related PRs

• hawkff/cbzr#12: Both changes modify rotate in internal/render/transform.go; this pull request adds caching and changes how the function obtains and recycles RGBA buffers.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9715d

Current image-rendering paths appear unaffected. Clarify the rotation source contract before callers rely on editing images in place.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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internal/book/epub_font.go: 1

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internal/book/epub_font_test.go: 1

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1735-1735: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The upload is retained while the delayed frame is written.

Bubble Tea holds its renderer mutex during Output.Write. The event loop calls p.renderer.write(model.View()), so one later View can advance retention, but the next View cannot run until the earlier flush releases the mutex. begin retains the upload for that one later frame. The reported loss after two later View calls is not reachable.

internal/native/native_darwin.go: 1

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internal/render/webtoon_test.go: 1

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Avoid comparing non-comparable image.Image values.

If src has a non-comparable concrete type, the first rotation caches it and the next lookup panics at r.src == src. image.Image does not require a comparable implementation. Skip identity caching for non-comparable sources.

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