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stalir
stalir
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July 21, 2017
Answered

Change Search Color

  • July 21, 2017
  • 5 replies
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How can we choose highlight text color when searching in pdf? Grey is not good for recognition in most German technical documents.@

    Correct answer try67

    The search highlight color is usually a light blue, not gray. But at any rate, I don't think it can be changed.

    It's a good idea to submit a feature request about this: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

    5 replies

    andrewdonley
    andrewdonley
    Participant
    May 22, 2025

    The light blue highlighted text from find is so ineffective it is almost an accessibility liabilty, how do they not even fix this?

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 24, 2022

    In the preferences at Accessibility change the document colors.

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    ACSUK13
    Participant
    February 25, 2021

    I agree wholeheartedly.

    I've just posted the following to "Feature Request/Bug Report" - Under " Page operations > Change search colour"

     

    "When searching document, the highlighted colour is light blue.

    Surely the purpose of this function is to highlight the search item, not make it slightly more noticable?
    I'm very surprised that the search highlight colour isn't adjustable. I would, for example, set it to neon pink!"

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      sf20073885
      Participant
      May 24, 2021

      I agree, it's a big problem specially when eyes get tired after many hours of reading. We should have optional call or change for search function. Light blue is not a good option.

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        Josephine24169826zrac
        Participant
        April 24, 2022

        Also a problem for people with vision issues like me.  That light blue is problematic.  Thanks for submitting the form.  I will also and put on social media.  Please add to social media, businesses tend to respond to public comments. 

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          Alluring_loyalty16B6
          Participant
          August 27, 2020

          In Google Search, this is tagged SOLVED, but it ain't

          try67
          Community Expert
          try67Community Expert
          Community Expert
          August 27, 2020

          The answer is no, you can't do it. That's solved, even if you don't like the solution...

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          defaultrsruxum1kakq
          Participant
          November 3, 2021

          @try67 was the ...  meant to say something like "go pound sand"? I would think Adobe has a customer-facing team that considers what users request when prioritizing future work. Perhaps if it were left open it might get to someone who cared what improvements users request? My eyes are tired from searching a PDF schematic looking for that next light blue search match and my hand sore from pounding that sand too.

            try67
            Community Expert
            try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
            Community Expert
            July 24, 2017

            The search highlight color is usually a light blue, not gray. But at any rate, I don't think it can be changed.

            It's a good idea to submit a feature request about this: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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