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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.layoutmgr;

import org.apache.fop.datatypes.Numeric;

/**
 * This interface is implemented by top-level layout managers such as the ones for fo:page-sequence
 * and fox:external-document.
 */
public interface TopLevelLayoutManager {

    /**
     * Activate the layout of this page sequence.
     * PageViewports corresponding to each page generated by this
     * page sequence will be created and sent to the AreaTreeModel
     * for rendering.
     */
    public void activateLayout();

    /**
     * Act upon the force-page-count trait,
     * in relation to the initial-page-number trait of the following page-sequence.
     * @param nextPageSeqInitialPageNumber initial-page-number trait of next page-sequence
     */
    public void doForcePageCount(Numeric nextPageSeqInitialPageNumber);

    /**
     * Finished the page-sequence and notifies everyone about it.
     */
    public void finishPageSequence();

}