Background color of words in PDF

[Hrishikesh_Tamhankar@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

I am developing an application where i need to find specific words in a PDF file and highlight them with some background color.

It would be of a great help if someone can put some light on how i can achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Hrishikesh

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

That sounds really hard. However, I suppose a plug-in could use the
PDFEdit layer to insert a rectangle behind the piece of text once it
has located the text and discovered its quad.

Aandi Inston

[Hrishikesh_Tamhankar@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Aandi, appreciate your response!

I have the Adobe Acrobat SDK and its some how difficult to find the appropriate code to perform the activity.

Can you help me in some more details like how do i find the quad for the located text.
And can i then implement this plugin for a reader, with the appropriate procedure?

Thanks in advance :)

Best regards,
Hrishikesh

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

No, you couldn't do this in Reader, because PDFEdit is editing the
page.

Finding the quads can be done using the PDWordFinder. But guaranteeing
your new additions are behind the text but in front of any background
is going to require some fuzzy logic.

Aandi Inston

[Hrishikesh_Tamhankar@adobeforums.com]

Thank you Anandi, thats helps a bit :)