>>I think the return type of this as a convenience method ought to be a 
>>java.awt.Image. Maybe one version returns a byte array and one returns an 
>>
>-1 - this ties us to X-Windows on servers and limits our crossplatform 
>nature and his performance heavy.  Leave this to the API user to 
>tradeoff (ties to awt or not).

Definitely not. A java.awt.Image instance is just data. It ties us 
to nothing except Java. See also my other post.

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