How do you get the Scope in PDFlib

Question

I'm just starting out in PDFlib, and the manual (for PDFlib 8) says to get the scope ...

You can query the current scope with the scope parameter.

But I have no idea how to get at that parameter, and internet searches are getting me nowhere because "get scope" is everywhere.

Answer 1

There may be a better way, but I found that this seems to work...

myPDF.get_parameter('scope', 0)

Answer 2

I currently use the following construct in PHP:

PDF_get_string($p, PDF_get_option($p, 'scope', ''), '')

Explanation: PDF_get_option gets the current scope as an integer, and then PDF_get_string resolves that integer to a nice string. This return something like "template" or "page".

If you use PDFLib object oriented, the code is probably something like this:

$p.get_string($p.get_option('scope', ''), '');

And it should be easy enough to adapt it to Java.