Merge pull request foliojs#887 from blikblum/remove-reference-timeout

Remove setTimeout call in PDFReference.finalize

Author: blikblum

lib/reference.js

@@ -42,39 +42,36 @@ class PDFReference extends PDFAbstractReference {
   }
 
   finalize() {
-    return setTimeout(() => {
-      this.offset = this.document._offset;
+    this.offset = this.document._offset;
 
-      const encryptFn = this.document._security ? this.document._security.getEncryptFn(this.id, this.gen) : null;
+    const encryptFn = this.document._security ? this.document._security.getEncryptFn(this.id, this.gen) : null;
 
-      if (this.buffer.length) {
-        this.buffer = Buffer.concat(this.buffer);
-        if (this.compress) {
-          this.buffer = zlib.deflateSync(this.buffer);
-        }
-
-        if (encryptFn) {
-          this.buffer = encryptFn(this.buffer);
-        }
+    if (this.buffer.length) {
+      this.buffer = Buffer.concat(this.buffer);
+      if (this.compress) {
+        this.buffer = zlib.deflateSync(this.buffer);
+      }
 
-        this.data.Length = this.buffer.length;
+      if (encryptFn) {
+        this.buffer = encryptFn(this.buffer);
       }
 
-      this.document._write(`${this.id} ${this.gen} obj`);
-      this.document._write(PDFObject.convert(this.data, encryptFn));
+      this.data.Length = this.buffer.length;
+    }
 
-      if (this.buffer.length) {
-        this.document._write('stream');
-        this.document._write(this.buffer);
+    this.document._write(`${this.id} ${this.gen} obj`);
+    this.document._write(PDFObject.convert(this.data, encryptFn));
 
-        this.buffer = []; // free up memory
-        this.document._write('\nendstream');
-      }
+    if (this.buffer.length) {
+      this.document._write('stream');
+      this.document._write(this.buffer);
 
-      this.document._write('endobj');
-      return this.document._refEnd(this);
+      this.buffer = []; // free up memory
+      this.document._write('\nendstream');
     }
-    , 0);
+
+    this.document._write('endobj');
+    this.document._refEnd(this);
   }
   toString() {
     return `${this.id} ${this.gen} R`;