Text Selection into Variable, help required please...

Unfortunately this is not a simple one. Acrobat JavaScript does not provide infromation on the selection of page content. At least not directly. But I think you have a clever approach. The script could paste the clipboard text into a text field, where it could grab the text and use it in the Search Object.

But it won't work because the "Paste" menu item is restricted in Acrobat 8 and later. It cannot be called from a script.

There are some much more complex approaches, for example using the highlight annotation to do the text selection and then finding the text under the annotations rectangle.

But it's so much simpler to just ask the user to enter the text into the search window.

Hi Thom,

Thanks for your help with this query.
Looks like I may have to put this project on hold, or try the trickier variation.

I was trying to stay away from the user having to enter the copy to speed up a process.

Thanks again Thom, you've given me something else to have a look at.

Regards,

Nick

Tell me some infos about with what Adobe Product you wanna do it.
I can easily show you a perfect example of what u wanna do in Adobe Illustrator with JavaScript :D

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Hi verTIc4L,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm trying to do it in Acrobat Pro 7, would that have a different dictionary to Illustrator?

Thanks,

Nick