// Copyright (c) 2005-2024 Jay Berkenbilt // // This file is part of qpdf. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except // in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License // is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express // or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under // the License. // // Versions of qpdf prior to version 7 were released under the terms of version 2.0 of the Artistic // License. At your option, you may continue to consider qpdf to be licensed under those terms. // Please see the manual for additional information. #ifndef QPDFSTREAMFILTER_HH #define QPDFSTREAMFILTER_HH #include #include #include class QPDF_DLL_CLASS QPDFStreamFilter { public: QPDF_DLL QPDFStreamFilter() = default; QPDF_DLL virtual ~QPDFStreamFilter() = default; // A QPDFStreamFilter class must implement, at a minimum, setDecodeParms() and // getDecodePipeline(). QPDF will always call setDecodeParms() before calling // getDecodePipeline(). It is expected that you will store any needed information from // decode_parms (or the decode_parms object itself) in your instance so that it can be used to // construct the decode pipeline. // Return a boolean indicating whether your filter can proceed with the given /DecodeParms. The // default implementation accepts a null object and rejects everything else. QPDF_DLL virtual bool setDecodeParms(QPDFObjectHandle decode_parms); // Return a pipeline that will decode data encoded with your filter. Your implementation must // ensure that the pipeline is deleted when the instance of your class is destroyed. QPDF_DLL virtual Pipeline* getDecodePipeline(Pipeline* next) = 0; // If your filter implements "specialized" compression or lossy compression, override one or // both of these methods. The default implementations return false. See comments in QPDFWriter // for details. QPDF defines specialized compression as non-lossy compression not intended for // general-purpose data. qpdf, by default, doesn't mess with streams that are compressed with // specialized compression, the idea being that the decision to use that compression scheme // would fall outside of what QPDFWriter would know anything about, so any attempt to decode and // re-encode would probably be undesirable. QPDF_DLL virtual bool isSpecializedCompression(); QPDF_DLL virtual bool isLossyCompression(); private: QPDFStreamFilter(QPDFStreamFilter const&) = delete; QPDFStreamFilter& operator=(QPDFStreamFilter const&) = delete; }; #endif // QPDFSTREAMFILTER_HH