/*
 * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
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 */

/* $Id$ */
 
package org.apache.fop.render;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;

/**
 * This interface is used by the Graphics2DAdapter. Components that can paint using
 * a Graphics2D instance can implement this interface to paint themselves.
 */
public interface Graphics2DImagePainter {

    /**
     * Called to paint the image. Implementations should scale so the image is
     * painted fully inside the given area indicated by then Rectangle2D object.
     * @param g2d the Graphics2D instance to paint on
     * @param area the target area for the image
     */
    void paint(Graphics2D g2d, Rectangle2D area);

    /**
     * @return the dimensions of the image to be painted in millipoints
     */
    Dimension getImageSize();
    
}