Re: How to highlight text in PDF file

Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user
Organization Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dang Quang Vinh wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> With ReportLab, how can I highlight a text like the following image:
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You do it by hand.  You compute the height and width of the string
(which you can do with stringWidth and the font size or leading), then
draw a yellow rectangle, of that size, then draw the text on top of it.


> I think it is a basic feature of PDF reader application nowadays.
>

That's true.  I do hope you understand that ReportLab is not a PDF
reader, nor is it used for creating PDF reader applications.  It is used
to create PDF files.

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Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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