org.pdfclown.objects
Interface IPdfNamedObjectWrapper

All Superinterfaces:

IPdfObjectWrapper

All Known Implementing Classes:

Destination, FileSpecification, FullFileSpecification, JavaScript, LocalDestination, MediaRendition, RemoteDestination, Rendition, SelectorRendition, SimpleFileSpecification

public interface IPdfNamedObjectWrapper
extends IPdfObjectWrapper

High-level representation of a PDF object that can be referenced also through a name.

Some categories of objects in a PDF file can be also referred to by name rather than by object reference. The correspondence between names and objects is established by the document's name dictionary [PDF:1.6:3.6.3].

The name's purpose is to provide a further level of referential abstraction especially for references across diverse PDF documents.

Since:

0.1.2

Version:

0.1.2, 09/24/12

Author:

Stefano Chizzolini (http://www.stefanochizzolini.it)

Method Summary

PdfString	getName() Gets the object name.
PdfDirectObject	getNamedBaseObject() Gets the object name, if available; otherwise, behaves like getBaseObject().

Methods inherited from interface org.pdfclown.objects.IPdfObjectWrapper

getBaseObject

Method Detail

getName

PdfString getName()

Gets the object name.

As names are tipically loosely-coupled with their corresponding PDF objects, name retrieval implies a costly reverse lookup into the document's name tree.

getNamedBaseObject

PdfDirectObject getNamedBaseObject()

Gets the object name, if available; otherwise, behaves like getBaseObject().