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47
48 package com.lowagie.text.pdf;
49
50 import java.awt.Font JavaDoc;
51
52 /**
53  * A FontMapper implementation handles mappings between AWT Fonts and PDF
54  * fonts. An interface is used instead of a fixed class because there isn't
55  * an exact correlation between the font types, so each application is free
56  * to define a mapping which is appropriate for it.
57  */
58
59 public interface FontMapper {
60
61     /**
62      * Returns a BaseFont which can be used to represent the given AWT Font
63      *
64      * @param font the font to be converted
65      * @return a BaseFont which has similar properties to the provided Font
66      */
67
68     public BaseFont awtToPdf(Font JavaDoc font);
69
70     /**
71      * Returns an AWT Font which can be used to represent the given BaseFont
72      *
73      * @param font the font to be converted
74      * @param size the desired point size of the resulting font
75      * @return a Font which has similar properties to the provided BaseFont
76      */
77
78     public Font JavaDoc pdfToAwt(BaseFont font, int size);
79
80 }
81
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