Areas and 2D

["Peter B. West" <pb...@tpg.com.au>]

To make it a little clearer where I am headed with alt-design and Java 
2D, and why I was so interested in SVGGraphics2D, see the attached diagram.

All of the geometry of areas is represented by Rectangle2D objects.  The 
geometry is represented by the lilac classes which extend the Area inner 
class AreaGeometry, which itself extends Rectangle2D.Double.  All the 
renderable content of areas will be contained in these Java 2D classes. 
  All of the geometrical methods of these classes are available for 
manipulating the geometry of page area trees.  With such a structure, 
rendering to Java 2D GraphicsDevices is supported by the rendering 
methods on these classes.  If SVGGraphics2D, PSGraphics2D, 
PDFGraphics2D, etc, are available, the same methods are available to 
directly render the page trees to the renderer's output medium.

Peter
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