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/* FontDelegate.java -- Interface implemented by all font delegates.
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package gnu.java.awt.font;

import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.font.FontRenderContext;
import java.awt.font.GlyphVector;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.text.CharacterIterator;
import java.util.Locale;


/**
 * The interface that all font delegate objects implement,
 * irrespective of where they get their information from.
 *
 * <p><b>Thread Safety:</b> All classes that implement the
 * <code>FontDelegate</code> interface must allow calling these
 * methods from multiple concurrent threads. The delegates are
 * responsible for performing the necessary synchronization.
 *
 * @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
 */
public interface FontDelegate
{
  public static final int FLAG_FITTED = 1 << 0;
  public static final int FLAG_NO_HINT_HORIZONTAL = 1 << 1;
  public static final int FLAG_NO_HINT_VERTICAL = 1 << 2;
  public static final int FLAG_NO_HINT_EDGE_POINTS = 1 << 3;
  public static final int FLAG_NO_HINT_STRONG_POINTS = 1 << 4;
  public static final int FLAG_NO_HINT_WEAK_POINTS = 1 << 5;

  /**
   * Returns the full name of this font face in the specified
   * locale, for example <i>&#x201c;Univers Light&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the face name.
   */
  public String getFullName(Locale locale);
  
  
  /**
   * Returns the name of the family to which this font face belongs,
   * for example <i>&#x201c;Univers&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the family name.
   */
  public String getFamilyName(Locale locale);


  /**
   * Returns the name of this font face inside the family, for example
   * <i>&#x201c;Light&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @param locale the locale for which to localize the name.
   *
   * @return the name of the face inside its family.
   */
  public String getSubFamilyName(Locale locale);
  
  
  /**
   * Returns the PostScript name of this font face, for example
   * <i>&#x201c;Helvetica-Bold&#x201d;</i>.
   *
   * @return the PostScript name, or <code>null</code> if the font
   * does not provide a PostScript name.
   */
  public String getPostScriptName();


  /**
   * Returns the number of glyphs in this font face.
   */
  public int getNumGlyphs();
  
  
  /**
   * Returns the index of the glyph which gets displayed if the font
   * cannot map a Unicode code point to a glyph. Many fonts show this
   * glyph as an empty box.
   */
  public int getMissingGlyphCode();
  

  /**
   * Creates a GlyphVector by mapping each character in a
   * CharacterIterator to the corresponding glyph.
   *
   * <p>The mapping takes only the font&#x2019;s <code>cmap</code>
   * tables into consideration. No other operations (such as glyph
   * re-ordering, composition, or ligature substitution) are
   * performed. This means that the resulting GlyphVector will not be
   * correct for text in languages that have complex
   * character-to-glyph mappings, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, or
   * Thai.
   *
   * @param font the font object that the created GlyphVector
   * will return when it gets asked for its font. This argument is
   * needed because the public API works with java.awt.Font,
   * not with some private delegate like OpenTypeFont.
   *
   * @param frc the font rendering parameters that are used for
   * measuring glyphs. The exact placement of text slightly depends on
   * device-specific characteristics, for instance the device
   * resolution or anti-aliasing. For this reason, any measurements
   * will only be accurate if the passed
   * <code>FontRenderContext</code> correctly reflects the relevant
   * parameters. Hence, <code>frc</code> should be obtained from the
   * same <code>Graphics2D</code> that will be used for drawing, and
   * any rendering hints should be set to the desired values before
   * obtaining <code>frc</code>.
   *
   * @param ci a CharacterIterator for iterating over the
   * characters to be displayed.
   */
  public GlyphVector createGlyphVector(Font font,
                                       FontRenderContext frc,
                                       CharacterIterator ci);


  /**
   * Determines the advance width and height for a glyph.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose advance width is to be
   * determined.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @param advance a point whose <code>x</code> and <code>y</code>
   * fields will hold the advance in each direction. It is well
   * possible that both values are non-zero, for example for rotated
   * text or for Urdu fonts.
   */
  public void getAdvance(int glyphIndex,
                         float pointSize,
                         AffineTransform transform,
                         boolean antialias,
                         boolean fractionalMetrics,
                         boolean horizontal,
                         Point2D advance);
  

  /**
   * Returns the shape of a glyph.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose advance width is to be
   * determined.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts, this
   * parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional
   * metrics, <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel
   * boundary.
   *
   * @return the scaled and grid-fitted outline of the specified
   * glyph, or <code>null</code> for bitmap fonts.
   */
  public GeneralPath getGlyphOutline(int glyphIndex,
                                     float pointSize,
                                     AffineTransform transform,
                                     boolean antialias,
                                     boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                     int type);


  /**
   * Returns a name for the specified glyph. This is useful for
   * generating PostScript or PDF files that embed some glyphs of a
   * font.
   *
   * <p><b>Names are not unique:</b> Under some rare circumstances,
   * the same name can be returned for different glyphs. It is
   * therefore recommended that printer drivers check whether the same
   * name has already been returned for antoher glyph, and make the
   * name unique by adding the string ".alt" followed by the glyph
   * index.</p>
   *
   * <p>This situation would occur for an OpenType or TrueType font
   * that has a <code>post</code> table of format 3 and provides a
   * mapping from glyph IDs to Unicode sequences through a
   * <code>Zapf</code> table. If the same sequence of Unicode
   * codepoints leads to different glyphs (depending on contextual
   * position, for example, or on typographic sophistication level),
   * the same name would get synthesized for those glyphs.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose name the caller wants to
   * retrieve.
   */
  public String getGlyphName(int glyphIndex);


  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the highest
   * ascender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialiased <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the ascent, which usually is a positive number.
   */
  public float getAscent(float pointSize,
                         AffineTransform transform,
                         boolean antialiased,
                         boolean fractionalMetrics,
                         boolean horizontal);


  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the lowest
   * descender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialiased <code>true</code> for anti-aliased rendering,
   * <code>false</code> for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics <code>true</code> for fractional metrics,
   * <code>false</code> for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal <code>true</code> for horizontal line layout,
   * <code>false</code> for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the descent, which usually is a nagative number.
   */
  public float getDescent(float pointSize,
                          AffineTransform transform,
                          boolean antialiased,
                          boolean fractionalMetrics,
                          boolean horizontal);
}