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  // Authors: AFRL/RQQD
  // Organization: Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Power and Control Division
  // 
  // Copyright (c) 2017 Government of the United State of America, as represented by
  // the Secretary of the Air Force.  No copyright is claimed in the United States under
  // Title 17, U.S. Code.  All Other Rights Reserved.
  // ===============================================================================
  
  /*
   * GRAL: GRAphing Library for Java(R)
   *
   * (C) Copyright 2009-2013 Erich Seifert <dev[at]erichseifert.de>,
   * Michael Seifert <mseifert[at]error-reports.org>
   *
   * This file is part of GRAL.
   *
   * GRAL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
   * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   * (at your option) any later version.
   *
   * GRAL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
   *
   * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   * along with GRAL.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
   */
  package de.erichseifert.gral.io.plots;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.OutputStream;
  
  import de.erichseifert.gral.graphics.Drawable;
  
  
  /**
   * Interface providing functions for rendering {@code Drawable}
   * instances and writing them to an output stream. As an example: a plot
   * can be saved into a bitmap file.
   * @see DrawableWriterFactory
   */
  public interface DrawableWriter {
  	/**
  	 * Returns the output format of this writer.
  	 * @return String representing the MIME-Type.
  	 */
  	public String getMimeType();
  
  	/**
  	 * Stores the specified {@code Drawable} instance.
  	 * @param d {@code Drawable} to be written.
  	 * @param destination Stream to write to
  	 * @param width Width of the image.
  	 * @param height Height of the image.
  	 * @throws IOException if writing to stream fails
  	 */
  	public void write(Drawable d, OutputStream destination,
  			double width, double height) throws IOException;
  
  	/**
  	 * Stores the specified {@code Drawable} instance.
  	 * @param d {@code Drawable} to be written.
  	 * @param destination Stream to write to
  	 * @param x Horizontal position.
  	 * @param y Vertical position.
  	 * @param width Width of the image.
  	 * @param height Height of the image.
  	 * @throws IOException if writing to stream fails
  	 */
  	public void write(Drawable d, OutputStream destination,
  			double x, double y, double width, double height) throws IOException;
  }
  