CompressedObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

PageSequenceStructElem, PDFStructElem, PDFStructElem.Placeholder, TableStructElem
```
interface CompressedObject
```
Represents a PDF object that may appear in an object stream. An object stream is a PDF stream whose content is a sequence of PDF objects. See Section 3.4.6 of the PDF 1.5 Reference.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`PDFObjectNumber`	`getObjectNumber()`	Returns the object number of this indirect object.
`int`	`output(java.io.OutputStream outputStream)`	Outputs this object's content into the given stream.

- Method Detail
  - getObjectNumber
```
PDFObjectNumber getObjectNumber()
```
    Returns the object number of this indirect object. Note that a compressed object must have a generation number of 0.
    
    Returns:
    
    the object number.
  - output
```
int output(java.io.OutputStream outputStream)
    throws java.io.IOException
```
    Outputs this object's content into the given stream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    outputStream - a stream, likely to be provided by the containing object stream
    
    Returns:
    
    the number of bytes written to the stream
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException