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March 12, 2025
Question

InDesign Background not appearing in Acrobat Pro

  • March 12, 2025
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I just wasted a couple of hours troubleshooting this - 
I created a document in InDesign that has a black background on the first page, behind an image and white text. After exporting the document, the background did not display in Acrobat Pro - although it did display in Acrobat Reader and Mac Preview.
It turns out that there's a new Accessibility setting "Replace Document Colors" (that includes replacing page backgrounds), which was turned on by default (at least in the version I had at the time, which I auto-update).

I don't know if that new feature ships activated by default - I didn't turn it on myself -  but it's troubling to know that there are folks out there who will be unable to view the document as created because of this invasive Adobe "improvement."
I wish I could get those 2 hours of my life back.
If you have this issue:
Go to Acrobat>Preferences>Accessibility> and uncheck "Replace Document Colors."

1 reply

Souvik Sadhu
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 16, 2025

Hi @jonburr,

 

Hope you are doing well. 

 

Thanks for writing about what worked for you.

Marking my statement as a correct answer so this appears atop for other users to use as a reference.


Regards,
Souvik.