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From: Helen A
Date: Nov 24, 2005 10:20AM

it was triggered by a web page loading it Patrick. I didnt realise
Acrobat allowed things like that as I rarely use it. Thanks for the tip though.

Helen

At 15:43 24/11/2005, you wrote:
> > Helen A
>
> > I realise this is going to be thought off topic by some but I was
> > sent a catalogue on cd, the files being in pdf format. Normaly this
> > isnt a problem for me but this particular catalogue's text was at
> > best 25% grey on a white background!
>
>Helen, maybe I'm missing the point here, but: could you not override
>the document's colours?
>(in Acrobat 7: Edit > Preferences > Accessibility > Replace Document
>Colors and choose a suitable foreground/background combination)
>
>Patrick
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>Patrick H. Lauke
>Web Editor / University of Salford
>http://www.salford.ac.uk
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