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September 24, 2019
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Find All Italics and Bold words in Adobe Reader

  • September 24, 2019
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Is it possible to get Adobe Reader program to find and highlight all italic and bold words in a document?

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    Not really. Indeed, it doesn't know. Italic and bold are not a style in PDF, they are a different font.

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    Peter Applerock
    Participant
    March 28, 2023

    Try this:
    "

    I found a way to do it in Acrobat Pro. You can create a new Check (in the Preflight panel) using the 'Font is Italic" property. Beware: when you Add the property to define the check itself, the default setting is "is not true", which is the opposite what we're looking for. You have to set it to "is true" to be able to find italicised text.

    Actually there is a lot more; we can look for small caps, serif and sans serif fonts etc. Wonderful!"
    By Puch from printplanet.com

    Participant
    June 28, 2023

    Hi Peter,

    I had the same requirement and tried to do a preflight as you mentioned.

    It shows No errors found. Does it not list the pages and jump to the text?

    saltwatertrout
    Known Participant
    February 5, 2024

    Any answer to this? I just tried it and it looks like there might be 109 instances but I don't know how to see them.

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    Legend
    September 24, 2019

    Not really. Indeed, it doesn't know. Italic and bold are not a style in PDF, they are a different font.

    Participant
    September 24, 2019
    Would it work if I exported the document into microsoft word?
    AkanchhaS8194121
    Legend
    September 25, 2019

    Hey there!

     

    I believe same fearure would be applied for MS word as well. Again, exporting a pdf to MS word now that would become a whole new document format. MS would support it or not that we cannot really answer. 

     

    Thanks,

    Akanchha