About Justin VanAlstyne Expertise I have a full working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - 7.01. I have experience in creating interactive PDFs, embedding multimedia, web-based forms, creating presentations using PDF, advanced prepress preparation, PDF web optimization, color management, and using PDF as a soft-proofing tool. I do not have a lot of experience using Acrobat`s advanced Javascripting features, though a lot of custom functionality can be built into a PDF this way.
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Past/Present clients Marsh, Inc. (http://www.marsh.com), Impel Corp (http://www.impelcorp.com), Home Properties (http://www.homeproperties.com)
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Followup To Justin
Question - here's the link to the HTML http://www.fightandfitness.com/newsletter/augustnewsletter.htm
... did a print preview and it changes the black to white, and white to black(grey)...interesting...went ahead and tried the print using Adobe PDF option and it came out with the white background, and black(grey)text...so maybe that'll just have to do as an option to the online view...
Also have gone from word to PDF and when the reader opens it you initially see the white background with white text, however, you can tweak the PDF preferences, accessibility, "replacement color"...check black background....and then it works...however, you can't be telling uninformed users to do that...it needs to be automatic...
thanks..just wanted to let you know...
Les
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Hi,
I have a ms-word file that I converted to PDF using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 prof...the source file has the background as black and the text in white...how to I get the PDF file to retain these characteristics so that when others open the PDF file they will automatically see the white on black...without having to change the Acrobat reader's settings...most people will see white on white....and not know what to do...
Thank you very much for your help...
Les
Answer -
The problem is not with Acrobat or the PDF. The problem (as I tested it on my machine) is that Word will not print these items in the first place. The PDF will only capture what Word can print. So anything that does not appear in the Print Preview in Word, will not appear in the PDF either. It is beyond me why Word won't let you print the background color. I even tried creating a box with a fill color (from the Drawing toolbar), and Word won't print that either. Perhaps you will have more options on what to print on a Windows version of Word. I am running the Mac version of Office 2004 and I didn't see option regarding those items.
Your next best option to create the PDF using another application like InDesign or PageMaker. You might even try just making it an HTML file and printing from your browser. Printing background from a web browser is possible.
- Justin
Answer Les -
I was able to go to your link and preview the print, and by turning on the Safari option to print the background, it came up black with white text. Better than nothing I suppose.
The reason you can change the color of the background within Acrobat is because the "white" PDF areas are basically transparent since Word didn't print a background color. White doesn't print from applications because white is impossible to physically print (the white comes from the paper obviously). Therefore you are just changing the view preferences of your particular Acrobat program. If you open a PDF that actually has a background color or image, changing the accessibility background color will have no noticeable effect because you aren't seeing through the PDF.
Not sure if that makes sense or not. Just sort of as FYI information.
