.fop.pdf.PDFNumber)"><!-- --></A><H3>
encodeAndWriteStream</H3>
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protected int <B>encodeAndWriteStream</B>(java.io.OutputStream&nbsp;out,
                                   <A HREF="../../../../org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFNumber.html" title="class in org.apache.fop.pdf">PDFNumber</A>&nbsp;refLength)
                            throws java.io.IOException</PRE>
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<DD>Encodes and writes a stream directly to an OutputStream. The length of
 the stream, in this case, is set on a PDFNumber object that has to be
