com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser

Interface TextAssemblyBuffer

All Known Implementing Classes:

FinalText, ParsedText, ParsedTextImpl, Word

public interface TextAssemblyBuffer

Author:

dgd

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	accumulate(TextAssembler p, String contextName) We pass ourselves to the assembler, which is a visitor, so that it can accumulate information on this text depending on its type.
void	assemble(TextAssembler p)
FinalText	getFinalText(PdfReader reader, int page, TextAssembler assembler, boolean useMarkup)
String	getText()

Method Detail

getText

String getText()

Returns:

the text to render

getFinalText

FinalText getFinalText(PdfReader reader,
                       int page,
                       TextAssembler assembler,
                       boolean useMarkup)

Parameters:

reader - pdfReader that knows about our document. (size, etc. available here).

page - which page are we extracting text from.

assembler - Builds result by accepting content from text components of various sorts.

useMarkup - Should we generate tagged text, or just plain text.

Returns:

the final text ready to concatenate into result string.

accumulate

void accumulate(TextAssembler p,
                String contextName)

We pass ourselves to the assembler, which is a visitor, so that it can accumulate information on this text depending on its type. The result is calculated by a final "assembly" phase, after accumulation is done. This is because we may have non-contiguous items in a PDF text stream.

Parameters:

p - the assembler that is visiting us.

contextName - Name of the surrounding markup element/"context" if we're generating tagged output.

See Also:

accumulate(com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.TextAssembler, String)

assemble

void assemble(TextAssembler p)

Parameters:

p - we may pass ourselves to this assembler again during the final assembly process.