This Enfocus PitStop command allows us to select any piece of text by the name of the font applied to it.
Warning: The name of a font in a PDF is a very precise name that describes not only the family the font belongs to (for example, "Arial" or "Canela"), its weight ("Deck", " Thin"," Narrow") and variant (" Italic"," Bold", etc.).
Thus, for example, if we enter "CanelaDeck-Light", PitStop will only select the pieces of text that have that font applied, but it will ignore those that are in the italic variant of that same font (which is called "CanelaDeck-LightItalic").
If mark the checkbox "Use regular expressions" we can use the general wildcard syntax of the GREP or RegExp expressions widely used in many programs and operating systems that allows us to make wider selections and searchs.
The example in the screengrab above, we would search with the expression "CanelaDeck-Light(\w+)" and that would also include the variant "Italic" (or any other made up of non-numeric characters).
This command, like others related to the selection or alteration of fonts, has the "Font Picker" button, which facilitates and simplifies a lot choosing which we want to work on. The behaviour of the Font Picker is described in detail on another page.
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