org.foray.pdf.object
Class PDFDate

java.lang.Object
  org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject
      org.foray.pdf.object.PDFDate

public class PDFDate
extends PDFObject

Represents a Date object in PDF. Date is listed as a PDF Data Type in PDF Reference, 3rd Edition, Table 3.22. The Date data type is discussed at Section 3.8.2.

Dates are technically PDF strings, probably actually PDF text strings, so it is tempting to make this class a subclass of PDFTextString. However, since the output will always be ASCII characters (as far as we know), there is currently no benefit to doing so.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject

EOL, MSG_EOL, XREF_EOL

Constructor Summary

PDFDate(PDFDocument doc, Date date)
Create a PDFDate instance.

Method Summary

String

toPDF() Generates the PDF text necessary to represent the object, returning it as a String.

Methods inherited from class org.foray.pdf.object.PDFObject

bufferToByteArray, byteArrayToStream, getCharsPerLine, getGeneration, getLogger, getNumber, getPDFDocument, output, pdfID, pdfReference, setNumber, stringToByteArray

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PDFDate

public PDFDate(PDFDocument doc,
               Date date)

Create a PDFDate instance.

Parameters:

doc - The parent PDF document.

date - The Date to be encapsulated.

Method Detail

toPDF

public String toPDF()

Description copied from class: PDFObject

Generates the PDF text necessary to represent the object, returning it as a String.

Returns:

The PDF text necessary to represent the object.