question: private PDFObject findResource ( String name , String inDict ) throws IOException { if ( inDict != null ) { PDFObject in = resources . get ( inDict ) ; if ( in == null || in . getType ( ) != PDFObject . DICTIONARY ) { throw new PDFParseException ( "No dictionary called " + inDict + " found in the resources" ) ; } return in . getDictRef ( name ) ; } else { return resources . get ( name ) ; } }
target:  get a property from a named dictionary in the resources of this content stream.