org.apache.fop.pdf
Class PDFObject

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFObject

Direct Known Subclasses:

PDFAction, PDFAnnotList, PDFArray, PDFCharProcs, PDFCIDFont, PDFCIDSystemInfo, PDFEncoding, PDFEncryption, PDFFileSpec, PDFFont, PDFFontDescriptor, PDFFunction, PDFInfo, PDFLink, PDFOutline, PDFPage, PDFPages, PDFPathPaint, PDFResources, PDFRoot, PDFShading, PDFStream, PDFXObject

public abstract class PDFObject

extends java.lang.Object

generic PDF object. A PDF Document is essentially a collection of these objects. A PDF Object has a number and a generation (although the generation will always be 0 in new documents).

number

protected int number

the object's number

generation

protected int generation

the object's generation (0 in new documents)

PDFObject

public PDFObject(int number)

create an empty object

Parameters:

number - the object's number

PDFObject

public PDFObject()

getNumber

public int getNumber()

Returns:

the PDF Object number

output

protected int output(java.io.OutputStream stream)
              throws java.io.IOException

write the PDF represention of this object

Parameters:

stream - the stream to write the PDF to

Returns:

the number of bytes written

Throws:

java.io.IOException

referencePDF

public java.lang.String referencePDF()

the PDF representation of a reference to this object

Returns:

the reference string