fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/pdf/PDFImageHandler.java

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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.render.pdf;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.fop.image.FopImage;
import org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFDocument;
import org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFXObject;

/**
 * This interface is used for handling all sorts of image type for PDF output.
 */
public interface PDFImageHandler {

    /**
     * Returns the MIME type supported by this instance.
     * @return the MIME type
     */
    String getSupportedMimeType();
    
    /**
     * Generates the PDF objects for the given FopImage instance and returns
     * the resulting XObject.
     * @param image the image to be handled
     * @param uri the URI of the image
     * @param pdfDoc the target PDF document
     * @return the generated XObject
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    PDFXObject generateImage(FopImage image, String uri, PDFDocument pdfDoc) throws IOException;
    
}