Issue with bolded/unclear text and lines, and yellow tint

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Hello there!

After an update to Acrobat DC, I am having issues with viewing PDFs. The issue is only with Acrobat DC, no other apps are affected. And it happens both on my laptop and monitor screens

They appear with a yellow tint, and the text is not clear – it is usually easier to view.

I can make the background white by selecting Preferences-Accessibility-Use Windows Color Scheme (as I had seen in another thread), but images, colours, and font is still not correct – the yellow haze still remains, and text is hard to read

I have tried editing options in Print Production and “Output Preview”, although this doesn’t do anything. And I have checked the graphics card options, and the resolution on my screens, but these are as they should be.

The symbols also appear to be double-lined or bolded in the UI:

I have uninstalled, removed all preferences, deleted all Acrobat DC files, then re-installed, but the issue still persists.

Here are my Preferences

But no matter what I change in these, nothing seems to fix it.

Thank you in advance for any help

creative explorer · Answer

@Alison22828534j67l when I first read the post and saw the yellow tints in the images, my first reaction is a classic symptoms of a GPU/color profile conflict. Try resetting the computer system colour profiles that is associated with your display. If you see a custom or other profile, set the default back to a generic profile like sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for testing. Restart your computer and test Acrobat DC again, to see if that changes it.

Yellow Background: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/adobe-acrobat-pro-dc-all-pdfs-appear-with-a-yellow-background/td-p/12388134

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