Hi All

I have just committed a significant refactoring of color spaces to trunk. The 
main purpose of the change is to encapsulate all color space handling code 
within PDColorSpace and its subclasses. Until now there was color handling code 
in many different places, including separate code for each image format. Due to 
the close link between images, color, and performance it has been necessary to 
rewrite much of the image reading code.

Here's a summary of the changes:

- PDCcitt has been removed, its reading capability has moved to CCITTFaxFilter 
and writing capability has moved to CCITTFactory.

- PDJpeg has been removed. JPEG reading is now done by new code in DCTFilter 
which correctly handles CMYK/YCCK color. This fixes various files where images 
appeared like negatives. JPEG writing is done by new code in JPEGFactory.

- cleaned up JBIG2Filter

- cleaned up JPXFilter, in particular calling decode() caused the stream 
dictionary to be updated, which was unsafe. I've also added a special 
JPXColorSpace which wraps the embedded AWT color space of a JPX BufferedImage, 
this replaces the need for the awkward mapping of ColorSpace to PDColorSpace.

- Added better error messages for missing JAI plugins (JPX, JBIG2). A special 
exception, MissingImageReaderException is now thrown.

- PDXObjectForm has been renamed to PDFormXObject to match the PDF spec.
- PDXObjectImage has been renamed in the same manner.
- PDInlinedImage has been renamed to PDInlineImage for the same reason.
- CCITTFaxDecodeFilter has been renamed to CCITTFaxFilter for consistency with 
the other filters.

- ImageParameters has been removed, it was used to represent inline image 
parameters which are now simply members of PDInlineImage.

- added PDColor which represents a color value, including patterns, it is 
immutable for ease of use.

- removed PDColorState which was a container for both a color and a color 
space, in almost every case it was used to represent a color and so has been 
replaced by PDColor and occasionally PDColorSpace.

- moved most of the functionality of PDXObject into its subclasses

- rewrote almost all color handling code in all PDColorSpace subclasses, 
including fixing the calculations for l*a*b, DeviceN, and indexed color spaces. 

- all color spaces now implement a toRGB(float[]) function for color 
conversion, so external consumers of color spaces no longer have to know about 
internals such as tint transforms.

- image color conversion is now performed in one operation, using 
ColorConvertOp, rather than pixel-by-pixel, this speeds up ICC transforms by 
many orders of magnitude. Color spaces now expose a special method 
toImageRGB(Raster) for this purpose. This fixes some known performance issues 
with certain files.

- updated Type1, Axial, Radial, and Gouraud shading contexts to call the new 
toRGB functions. This is an interim measure, for better performance the color 
conversion should instead be done using toImageRGB after the entire gradient is 
drawn to the raster.

- creation of AWT Paint has been moved inside color spaces, hiding the details 
from the caller. It is no longer possible to get an AWT Color from a color 
space, only a Paint may be obtained.

- removed PDColorSpaceFactory and moved its functionality into PDColorSpace.

- moved some of the new shading and tiling pattern code to PDPattern so that 
toPaint() is encapsulated in the color space.

- new PDImage interface which is implemented by both PDInlineImage and 
PDImageXObject

- Image XObject image reading, masking  and stencilling code has been 
rewritten, resulting in the removal of CompositeImage.

- new SampledImageReader performs image reading for all formats, including JPEG 
and CCITT. The format itself is simply a filter, as is the case in the PDF 
spec. New image reading handles decode arrays, interpolation, and conversion of 
all image types to efficient 8bpp rasters. This replaces PDPixelMap as well as 
reading code from PDJpeg and PDCcitt. Handling of decod arrays fixes various 
issues where images were inverted, especially inline images in Type 3 fonts.

- removed SetNonStrokingICCBasedColor, SetNonStrokingIndexed, 
SetNonStrokingPattern, SetNonStrokingSeparation, SetStrokingICCBasedColor, 
SetStrokingIndexed, SetStrokingPattern, SetStrokingSeparation, and replaced 
them with SetColor.

There will no doubt be some regressions, please post a comment on PDFBOX-1893 
to let me know.

Thanks

-- John


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