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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.writer;

import java.awt.image.RenderedImage;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface which allows writing multiple images into one image file if the output format
 * supports this feature. 
 *
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface MultiImageWriter {

    /**
     * Encodes an image and writes it to the image file.
     * @param image the image to be encoded
     * @param params a parameters object to customize the encoding.
     * @throws IOException In case of an /IO problem
     */
    public void writeImage(RenderedImage image, ImageWriterParams params) 
            throws IOException;
    
    public void close() throws IOException;
    
}