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September 14, 2021
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PDF document pages turning yellow

  • September 14, 2021
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I converted a word document into PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro and all of the pages turned yellow. Does anyone know how to delete or turn off the yellow pages and make them just normal white pages?

 

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Participating Frequently
September 17, 2021

I've had the same problem just started today. Very frustrating. Costing me a lot of time and my works looks really unprofessional. Adobe, please help

aliciat97893320
Participating Frequently
September 17, 2021

I just reinstalled - and everything is still yellow.  Also, all my custom form fields are now a strange gray/red and wierd. 

Participant
September 20, 2021

to fix select:

 

Edit/perferenes/accessibility/replace document olors/custom colors/PAGE BACKGROUND then select WHITE/document text black

This fixed it for me.

Participating Frequently
September 17, 2021

I am also on Windows 10 with a Surface Pro.  Today all of a sudden all the white bacgrounds on my PDS files started displaying yellow. There is nothing online that I can find on how to fix this.  Even uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat does not fix the problem.

Participant
September 16, 2021

Is anyone from Adobe going to respond here???

I tried changing all of these accessibility suggestions, but had issues with it changing colors I didn't want to be changed. Now I can't even add a signature to a document without it adding a yellow background color to my signature. I looked for a way to remove the update, I can't find any information on how to do that. 

 

Participant
September 16, 2021

SOLVED (?) - I had hte same issue this morning, and it seems that the documents were not corrupted (I could open them on other computers with no yellow pages) so I just reinstalled the Adobe Pro software and not it is fine!

Participant
September 16, 2021

*now it is fine

Participant
September 16, 2021

I have at least right two computers that just started doing this. As well checked and everything  is up today, check page color in Word and Outlook no changes. 

Participant
September 16, 2021

samething just happened here.

Participant
September 16, 2021

I had the same issue after updating Adobe Pro today.  All PDF documents regardless of source were showing with a yellow background.  I unintalled and reinstalled, still the same issue.  Here is how I fixed it:

Under Edit>Preferences>Accessibility  Select Replace Document Colors, then Custom Color and Select White under the Page Background - even though it already shows as White. 

 

Should not have to do that, but it corrected for all documents subsequently openned. 

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

 

Participant
September 16, 2021

I tried that but it caused problems with my colored documents.  Worked well for converting office documents with no color though. 

Participant
September 16, 2021

Same issue here.  Spent a good amount of time trying to fix this for a few of my clients.  I also don't see any way to revert to a previous version of Acrobat.  That seems like a pretty big oversight for Adobe, no?  I loath calls regarding anything adobe, what a weird company/sotware development process.

Participant
September 20, 2021

I also loathe any issues to do with Adobe, they are the most difficult company to deal with! They don't want anything to do with their customers!

Bernd Alheit
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Community Expert
September 20, 2021

What OS does you use?

Participant
September 16, 2021

I'm having the same issue! It's yellow like this: 

 

(Side note, the only way I was able to do a workaround as of now, is to edit the PDF, click Backround > Add > Select white color > hit add. But this will have to be done on every PDF! Any fixes please!?)

 

Participant
September 17, 2021

I am having the same issue! This is quite annoying when printing too. My papers are coming out yellow!! I am gonna try your method for the time being. 

Participant
September 16, 2021

This is happening to me too. It started this morning after the update installed v 21.007.20091, print preview doesn't remove yellow on files downloaded today, but does on files previously downloaded. Changing the accessibility only changes background area, not whole document, When I look at the file in my email there is no yellow Background. 

Participant
September 16, 2021

Just started havving the same issue, all of my PDF documents now have a yellow background. 

Participant
September 16, 2021

Same issue here.  PDF's have yellow background in any Adobe app I use.  Recent update?

Participant
September 16, 2021

same issue did it affect your jpgs and png files