Einzelne Textzeilen eines Flächentextes mit Hintergrundfarbe versehen

Jacob's proposal does work pretty well if you have separate type objects that represents the lines of area type objects.

It rather does not work if you have one or several multiple line area type objects whose lines are going to be highlighted separately. Well, it can be done, but it may get very complicated, depending on the nature of the type objects.

In Illustrator it's difficult to create a native technique to get the highlights automatically, given that they are supposed to flexibly adapt to the amount of text.

I once created a couple of actions that do highlight the lines of area type objects or even single characters. They are not dynamic, though. That is, if you change your text, the actions would have to be rerun.

In case that would be okay for you, I may take a look into my archives and create a sample Illustrator file to demonstrate it.

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PS: Sergey Osokin has a Highlight Text script for Illustrator. I haven't tried it, but you may have a look here:

https://sergosokin.gumroad.com/l/hgltext

• DerCoe,

As I (mis)understand your a) and b) options, it can be done natively, as follows:

1) With the normal Type Tool create the text as live Type;
2) In the Window>Appearance palette flyout click Add New Fill, then drag that fill down below Characters in the main Appearance palette and click it to have it selected; it will be highlighted;
3) Set the desired background colour, you may use the Window>Color palette or something else;
4) Effect>Convert to Shape>Rectangle (or Rounded Rectangle), then Click Relative and set the width and height to be added to the live Type; you may try different values in Preview to see how it works.

This will give you the text as live Type so you can edit it (you may add text, even more lines), and the background will adapt to the text.

With option b), you can do this for the entire text, either in separate instances or in one instance with multiple paragraphs.

With option a), you can do this for the first text instance, then copy the instance and replace the rtext and the background colour.

Monika has kindly made an exquisite wbsite with names of terms in many languages here,

https://www.vektorgarten.de/illustrator-polyglott.html

With regard to the choice between white and black Type, you may (re)consider whether to use white or black on the (bright) red background (and the same if you switch to a bright green).

In InDesign geht sowas problemlos. In Illustrator nicht.