Beschreibung

Gets several parameters which were directly set by ps_set_parameter() or indirectly by one of the other functions. Parameters are by definition string values. This function cannot be used to retrieve resources which were also set by ps_set_parameter().

The parameter name can have the following values.

fontname

The name of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter modifier.

fontencoding

The encoding of the currently active font.

dottedversion

The version of the underlying pslib library in the format <major>.<minor>.<subminor>

scope

The current drawing scope. Can be object, document, null, page, pattern, path, template, prolog, font, glyph.

ligaturedisolvechar

The character which dissolves a ligature. If your are using a font which contains the ligature `ff' and `|' is the char to dissolve the ligature, then `f|f' will result in two `f' instead of the ligature `ff'.

imageencoding

The encoding used for encoding images. Can be either hex or 85. hex encoding uses two bytes in the postscript file each byte in the image. 85 stand for Ascii85 encoding.

linenumbermode

Set to paragraph if lines are numbered within a paragraph or box if they are numbered within the surrounding box.

linebreak

Only used if text is output with ps_show_boxed(). If set to true a carriage return will add a line break.

parbreak

Only used if text is output with ps_show_boxed(). If set to true a carriage return will start a new paragraph.

hyphenation

Only used if text is output with ps_show_boxed(). If set to true the paragraph will be hyphenated if a hypen dictionary is set and exists.

hyphendict

Filename of the dictionary used for hyphenation pattern.