com.qoppa.pdfNotes

Interface IPDFSaver

All Known Implementing Classes:

HTTPSaver, PDFEditorBean, PDFNotesBean

public interface IPDFSaver

This interface is used to save the modified PDF documents. The interface is provided so that the host application can override the standard saving behaviour with a customized saver. To override the default saver, the host application can call PDFNotesBean.setPDFSaver with an object that implements IPDFSaver.

Author:

Qoppa Software

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	save(PDFNotesBean notesBean, String docName, File pdfFile) This method is called by PDFNotesBean when the document needs to be saved.

Method Detail

save

boolean save(PDFNotesBean notesBean,
             String docName,
             File pdfFile)

This method is called by PDFNotesBean when the document needs to be saved. It's default implementation, by PDFNotesBean, saves the document to a file.

Parameters:

notesBean - A reference to the PDFNotesBean object that holds the document. This object has save methods to save the document to an OutputStream and to a file name. For further flexibility, the PDFNotesBean also has a method to get the contents of the PDF document as a byte array.

docName - The name of the PDF document. The meaning of this name differs according to how the document was opened.

• If the document was opened from a file, the document name is the name of the file.
• If the document was opened from a URL, the document name is name of the url page.
• If the document was opened from an InputStream, the document name is set to "untitled" @see PDFNotesBean#UNTITLED.

pdfFile - If the document was opened from a file, this is a reference to the File object. This parameter is null if the document was opened from a URL or from an InputStream

Returns:

The method should return true if the document was saved successfully, false o.w.