Hi,
I have had a good look through the code, changed the interface in my
sandbox and I can find no reason why
org.apache.fop.render.Renderer#void startPageSequence(LineArea title)
shouldn't instead be
org.apache.fop.render.Renderer#void
startPageSequence(org.apache.fop.area.PageSequence pageSeq).
Of course this would mean a change in a low level interface but would be
a trivial change for all our renderers.
The reason why this is important is that the implementing renderer may
need to do some initial preparation work before page processing (e.g. in
my case the postscript renderer may want to access some extensions that
have been defined as children of the simple page master prior to
processing the individual pages in its sequence). I don't think I'm
missing something here.. Speak now or forever hold your peace :-)
Adrian.
Adrian Cumiskey wrote:
Hi,
I am working on the postscript renderer and have a query about
org.apache.fop.render.Renderer#void startPageSequence(LineArea title).
Its seems a bit wrong to me that this method is invoked with just the
title of the PageSequence being passed to it, surely it would be better
to pass the PageSequence itself (which contains the title). I would
think that the PageSequence object itself would be much more useful to
the renderer. Am I missing something? Is there a good reason which I
have missed as to why it is implemented in this way?
Adrian Cumiskey.
