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/* $Id$ */
 
package org.apache.xmlgraphics.java2d;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;

/**
 * This interface is used to paint vector graphic images. Components that can paint using
 * a Graphics2D instance (i.e. Java2D) 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 (in target device units)
     */
    void paint(Graphics2D g2d, Rectangle2D area);

    /**
     * @return the dimensions (intrinsic size) of the image to be painted in millipoints
     */
    Dimension getImageSize();
    
}