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/*
 * $Id: FontMapper.java 5201 2012-06-19 16:24:25Z blowagie $
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package com.itextpdf.awt;

import java.awt.Font;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont;

/**
 * A FontMapper implementation handles mappings between AWT Fonts and PDF
 * fonts. An interface is used instead of a fixed class because there isn't
 * an exact correlation between the font types, so each application is free
 * to define a mapping which is appropriate for it.
 */

public interface FontMapper {

    /**
     * Returns a BaseFont which can be used to represent the given AWT Font
     *
     * @param	font		the font to be converted
     * @return	a BaseFont which has similar properties to the provided Font
     */

    public BaseFont awtToPdf(Font font);

    /**
     * Returns an AWT Font which can be used to represent the given BaseFont
     *
     * @param	font		the font to be converted
     * @param	size		the desired point size of the resulting font
     * @return	a Font which has similar properties to the provided BaseFont
     */

    public Font pdfToAwt(BaseFont font, int size);

}