public PDShading() 
{
        DictShading = new COSDictionary();
        //DictShading.add( COSName.getPDFName( NAME ) );
}

Default constructor.

 public PDShading(COSName name,
    COSDictionary shading) 
{
        DictShading = shading;
        shadingname = name;
}

Constructor.

Parameters:

shading - The shading dictionary.

 public boolean getAntiAlias() 
{
        return DictShading.getBoolean("AntiAlias",false);
}

This will return a boolean flag indicating whether to antialias the shading pattern.

 public COSBase getCOSObject() 
{
        return COSName.getPDFName( getName() );
}

Convert this standard java object to a COS object.

 public PDColorSpace getColorSpace() throws IOException 
{
        return PDColorSpaceFactory.createColorSpace(DictShading.getDictionaryObject("ColorSpace"));
}

This will return the Color Space. Required in all Shading Dictionaries.

 public COSArray getCoords() 
{
        return (COSArray)(DictShading.getDictionaryObject("Coords"));
}

Returns the coordinate array used by several of the gradient types. Interpretation depends on the ShadingType.

 public COSArray getDomain() 
{
        return (COSArray)(DictShading.getDictionaryObject("Domain"));
}

Returns the Domain array used by several of the gradient types. Interpretation depends on the ShadingType.

 public COSArray getExtend() 
{
        COSArray arExtend=(COSArray)(DictShading.getDictionaryObject("Extend"));
        if (arExtend == null)
        {
            arExtend = new COSArray();
            arExtend.add(COSBoolean.FALSE);
            arExtend.add(COSBoolean.FALSE);
        }
        return arExtend;
}

Returns the Extend array used by several of the gradient types. Interpretation depends on the ShadingType. Default is {false, false}.

 public PDFunction getFunction() throws IOException 
{
        return PDFunction.create(DictShading.getDictionaryObject("Function"));
}

Returns the function used by several of the gradient types. Interpretation depends on the ShadingType.

 public String getName() 
{
        return NAME;
}

This will return the name of the object.

 public COSName getShadingName() 
{
        return shadingname;
}

This will return the name of this particular shading dictionary

 public int getShadingType() 
{
        return DictShading.getInt("ShadingType");
}

This will return the ShadingType -- an integer between 1 and 7 that specifies the gradient type. Required in all Shading Dictionaries.

 public String toString() 
{
        String sColorSpace;
        String sFunction;
        try
        {
            sColorSpace = getColorSpace().toString();
        }catch (IOException e)
        {
            sColorSpace = "Failure retrieving ColorSpace: " + e.toString();
        }
        try
        {
            sFunction = getFunction().toString();
        }catch(IOException e)
        {
            sFunction = "n/a";
        }
        String s = "Shading " + shadingname + "\n"
            + "\tShadingType: " + getShadingType() + "\n"
            + "\tColorSpace: " + sColorSpace + "\n"
            + "\tAntiAlias: " + getAntiAlias() + "\n"
            + "\tCoords: " + getCoords().toString() + "\n"
            + "\tDomain: " + getDomain().toString() + "\n"
            + "\tFunction: " + sFunction + "\n"
            + "\tExtend: " + getExtend().toString() + "\n"
            + "\tRaw Value:\n" +
         DictShading.toString();
        return s;
}

{@inheritDoc}