/*
 * Copyright 2002 by Jeremy Bowman <bowmanjm@attbi.com>.
 *
 *
 * The Original Code is 'iText, a free JAVA-PDF library'.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Bruno Lowagie. Portions created by
 * the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Bruno Lowagie.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 * Co-Developer of the code is Paulo Soares. Portions created by the Co-Developer
 * are Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 by Paulo Soares. All Rights Reserved.
 *
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 * where applicable.
 *
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 * you aren't using an obsolete version:
 * http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
 */

package com.lowagie.text.pdf;

import java.awt.Font;

/**
 * A FontMapper implementation handles mappings between AWT Fonts and PDF
 * fonts. An interface is used instead of a fixed class because there isn't
 * an exact correlation between the font types, so each application is free
 * to define a mapping which is appropriate for it.
 */

public interface FontMapper {

    /**
     * Returns a BaseFont which can be used to represent the given AWT Font
     *
     * @param	font		the font to be converted
     * @return	a BaseFont which has similar properties to the provided Font
     */

    public BaseFont awtToPdf(Font font);

    /**
     * Returns an AWT Font which can be used to represent the given BaseFont
     *
     * @param	font		the font to be converted
     * @param	size		the desired point size of the resulting font
     * @return	a Font which has similar properties to the provided BaseFont
     */

    public Font pdfToAwt(BaseFont font, int size);

}
