Highlighting with JS

[dustinbagley]

I'm trying to highlight a word with javascript. For the life of me, I can't get anything but the bowtie. The output seems to be different between highlight and a square but I'm not sure how.

The script I've trying to get to work looks as follows:

for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
for (var i=0; i<numWords; i++)
{
var ckWord = this.getPageNthWord(p, i, true);
if ( ckWord == "NOTES")
{
var q = this.getPageNthWordQuads(p, i);

var annot = this.addAnnot(
{
type: "Highlight",
page: p,
rect: q,
author: "A. C. Robat",
strokeColor: color.yellow,
}
)
}
}
};

I've seen that sometimes the quads are split and inverted etc which seems to work with a square, but the highlight always ends in a bowtie for me. Any help would be appreciated. thanks

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[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello dustinbagley,

You are getting quads - which are 8 values, and are then trying to apply them to the rectangle for your annotation which expects only four.

Please try this code (only the rect: is replaced with quads: for the annotation) - and it should work for you - it did for me:

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for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
  var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
  for (var i=0; i<numWords; i++)
  {
    var ckWord = this.getPageNthWord(p, i, true);
    if ( ckWord == "YourWordHere")
    {
      var q = this.getPageNthWordQuads(p, i);

      var annot = this.addAnnot(
      {
        type: "Highlight",
        page: p,
        quads: q,
        author: "A. C. Robat",
        strokeColor: color.yellow,
      }
      )
    }
  }
};

Kind regards,
Stefan

[dustinbagley]

Thank you

[TrackerSupp-Daniel]