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    GetOptionString

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    Apr 14, 2022
    novaPDF 11.x
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    The GetOptionString method retrieves a printing option of string type for a given profile
    HRESULT GetOptionString(
    [in] LONG p_nOption,
    [out] LPWSTR* p_pwsValue
);

    Parameters:

    p_nOption
    [in] option constant

p_pwsValue
    [out] pointer to a pointer to a null terminated Unicode string that will contain the value of the retrieved option. On success this value must be freed by the caller with CoTaskMemFree.

    Return values:

    S_OK on success or COM error code NVNOTINITIALIZED - Initialize was not called NVUNKNOWNPROFILE - no profile loaded NVINVALIDOPTION - wrong option constant NVPROFILEERROR - cannot find option in profile NVWRONGOPTION_TYPE` - option is not of type long

    Remarks:

    You can find the complete list of option names in the Profile option strings chapter. In the Include folder of novaPDF SDK installation folder you can find the definitions for all options in the next files: novaOptions.h, novaOptions.pas, Globals.bas.