[reportlab-users] highlight words by regex in pdf files?

[Steve Romanow]

On 3/17/2010 10:09 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

> I want to automatically highlight certain words (using regex) in the

> maintext of a pdf. So that I can later edit these highlights in

> Acrobat.

>

> I'm know the reportlab can do a lot of operations on pdfs? Could the

> experienced users let me if this can be done in reportlab?

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It would seem that it would depend on which front-end you are using, or 
if you are using the core python modules.  In preppy, this seems really 
possible, to have a list of words you want with a certain style.

I think Rob Alsima's rst2pdf uses pygment.