[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, an individual can enter a search string and then > Reader highlights a word in an existing document I do not control.
Adobe Reader RENDERS a PDF file, and can therefore find out the X, Y positions of a word, a sentence,... > Is it possible with iText to open an existing document and retrieve the x,y > position of a given word or string? iText doesn't RENDER PDF and therefore doesn't know where a word, a string, a paragraph,... will be drawn. In fact, there aren't many tools that can do this. > Bottom line is I want to add a special notation next to certain phrases in > dynamic documents from a 3rd party. You'll have a hard time finding a free product that is able to do this. br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
