Style changing commands

[canedha]

Hi @JorjMcKie,
hopefully quick question for you (or anybody else who knows):
The style of an object (line, rectangle etc) is set e. g. by operator d for stroke and then drawn by s. If you directly draw another line it uses the same style. Are there any operators e. g. q/Q that resets/changes the objects style setting?
Hope you are doing well and a happy new year!

[JorjMcKie]

Happy New Year to you too!

You are right: "q" and "Q" are defined as the stacking commands for the "graphics state". Any graphics setting made within their scope is reset to the corresponding value preceeding the "q".
Which PDF commands these are (it's not all of them) is best looked up in the PDF manual, page 125+.

In PyMuPDF, class Shape controls this: The .finish() method takes care of this wrapping. Any draw command preceeding it will be put under the effect of the parameters given to finish().
If you instead use the same-named Page methods, like page.draw_rect(), then the corresponding shape method is invoked - plus using the extra parameters, a finish() and a commit() will be executed. So in this case, the single draw command will be wrapped be q/Q ... and also land in a separate, own /Contents object (every .commit() will create a new /Contents object).

[canedha]

@JorjMcKie awesome as always! thx!