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Highlight text on an existing PDF

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Topic: Highlight text on an existing PDF

Posted By: ukobsa
Subject: Highlight text on an existing PDF
Date Posted: 10 Jul 06 at 3:30AM

Hi,

I want to highlight text on an existing document that I have extracted before. How can I do that?

I have tried it the following way:
- extract text via GetPageText using option 4 to get the texts position
- create a new layer and select it
- draw a box on this position using DrawBox
- move this layer behind the previous one to make the text drawn on the box(?)

But then the text is still hidden from the box. What am I doing wrong?

Is there a better way to make it work? (I dont't want to use transparency as I want the full colors)

best regards,
Ulrich

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Posted By: swb1
Date Posted: 10 Jul 06 at 9:11AM

You are on the right track with NewLayer and MoveLayer.

While I don't remember the details, I know that I have accomplished this quite easily using those.