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package com.sun.prism;

A tagging interface to be implemented by any Graphics that supports printing.

This maybe useful to know that you are printing but its initial purpose is that it should be used to decide whether to do things like caching.

Existing code that does caching of shapes, textures or other resources that assumes there is only ever a single destination, and so cache an object that can only be used with a specific graphics pipeline.

So if a Graphics is tagged with this interface, do not do cache lookup, nor store in a cache.

/** * A tagging interface to be implemented by any Graphics that * supports printing. * <p> * This maybe useful to know that you are printing but its initial purpose * is that it should be used to decide whether to do things like caching. * <p> * Existing code that does caching of shapes, textures * or other resources that assumes there is only ever a single * destination, and so cache an object that can only be used with * a specific graphics pipeline. * <p> * So if a Graphics is tagged with this interface, do not do cache * lookup, nor store in a cache. */
public interface PrinterGraphics { }