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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.pdf;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Represents a PDF object that may appear in an object stream. An object stream is a PDF
 * stream whose content is a sequence of PDF objects. See Section 3.4.6 of the PDF 1.5
 * Reference.
 */
interface CompressedObject {

    /**
     * Returns the object number of this indirect object. Note that a compressed object
     * must have a generation number of 0.
     *
     * @return the object number.
     */
    PDFObjectNumber getObjectNumber();

    /**
     * Outputs this object's content into the given stream.
     *
     * @param outputStream a stream, likely to be provided by the containing object stream
     * @return the number of bytes written to the stream
     * @throws IOException
     */
    int output(OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException;

}
