Good morning/day,

I have in the past been able to control Adobe PDF's via excel vba. I have been able to get pages numbers, insert pages, get the word number on a page, get the coordinates of such word on a page and more... all using the AcroExch.App and AcroExch.PDDo objects.

My question is, does anyone know of any syntax (or ideas) to read the line type on a PDF (i.e. bold or dash). For example, we have pipeline drawings, with lots of text, but on either side of the pipe there is a bold line marking the right of way on a land piece (a pipeline must be placed on a right of way, not just blow through someones garden).

I posted my end goal below to give some context to my problem, but if it bores you don't read it ha. If anyone has any ideas of how to read the line type of a line on a pdf, syntax, links to read, or something to google, please post anything you may think will help! Thank you!

My goal would be to have excel follow those bold lines, and make a note (on a excel sheet, not in the pdf itself) where the right away limts (the bold lines) change width (i.e. get farther from the pipe). The right of way width is marked by text so, this could be accomplish by 2 ways - have vba mesure the distance between the pipline and the bold line, or have it follow the line ad when it finds text, use a algorthim to tell the code how to mark the change in width.

-Kavy