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Yellow Page background of PDFs

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November 29, 2021
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Yellow Page background of PDFs

PDF page background changed to Yellow instead of no background for all pdf files after updating Acrobat with September’ 2021 release.

Available Workarounds for Windows machines:

Workaround 1: Windows machine

Close Acrobat.
From Windows Control Panel Open Color Management.
Select the affected display (if you have multiple affected displays you will need to repeat the following steps for each one).
Check the box “Use my settings for this device”
Select any existing profiles associated with this device and remove them.
Click Add and choose the ICC Profile called sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Click OK and then Close
Test

Workaround 2: Mac & Windows machine:

Select Acrobat’s Preference for replacing document colours, under Preferences > Accessibility and set the document background colour to white.
(Open Acrobat, Go to Edit > Preferences > Accessibility)
(Mac: Acrobat > Preferences> Accessibility)

Please let us know if this works for you by posting/commenting on this post.

General troubleshooting

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Jennifer271074151ink

Participant

Yes I have it

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Flavia26702652yqjm

Participating Frequently

Do you have an Adobe patch to fix this problem?

try67

Community Expert

Update your application.

TeaTV Install

Participant

Its didn't works I have an iphone and now I want to do it in app

[Link removed]

S

Specialised Group

Participating Frequently

I have tried these and several options found online to resolve this problem, so far the only workable solutions are...
1. Use another device (laptop, iPad or iphone)

2. Use a third party PDF reader
3. Read PDF's in the Preview Pane (as these are not yellow)

S

Specialised Group

Participating Frequently

This problem has been going on far to long, many PDF's are unreadible on screen as various back ground colours changed to white make the text impossible to read, thankfully I can read them on my iPad !

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

Since there are several issues that could cause this. It would be helpful to know what "This" problem you are refferring to.
There have been few people complaining that also are revealing the information necessary to trouble shoot:
1) What application was the Pdfs createde with and with what settings.

2) What are the colour management settings in Acrobat.

3) What are the colour management settings on the display. (There are here two more new type of settings that may have effect "accessibility" and "night light")

The most common has to do with missunderstanding about what "absolute" colour rendering does. (remember wresteling with this some 20 years ago) Absolute colour rendering tries to emulate the tone of white of one device on another. Acrobat does as instructed, and if you have a monitor profile that has a cool (blue) white and your document is to emulate print on (D50, = warmer white) then lighter colurs will appear yellow.

Using relative colometric viewing will most likely give satisfactory results.

S

Specialised Group

Participating Frequently

'This problem' in a post about the yellow background in Adobe seems a little obvious - PDF's are provided by many people inside and outside my organisation, they are all yellow.

I have tried all of the colour management options suggested with no change, it seems like a ridiculous proposition that a consumer level product requires the end user to get under the hood and make changes.

My laptop used to have this same problem when the yellow background emerged, it has since stopped exhibiting this problem without any input from me.

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Adolf260700615ay1

Participating Frequently

Hello!

It's a cool idea, but it doesn't work.

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Erica26010450y8yj

Participant

I found this work around in another discussion and it worked for me! Credit to JJ3ANS

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Laquisha24687017l16v

Participant

Yellow Page background of PDFs

PDF page background changed to Yellow instead of no background for all pdf files after updating Acrobat with September’ 2021 release.

Available Workarounds for Windows machines:

Workaround 1: Windows machine
Close Acrobat.
From Windows Control Panel Open Color Management.
Select the affected display (if you have multiple affected displays you will need to repeat the following steps for each one).
Check the box “Use my settings for this device”
Select any existing profiles associated with this device and remove them.
Click Add and choose the ICC Profile called sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Click OK and then Close
Test

Workaround 2: Mac & Windows machine:
Select Acrobat’s Preference for replacing document colours, under Preferences > Accessibility and set the document background colour to white.
(Open Acrobat, Go to Edit > Preferences > Accessibility)
(Mac: Acrobat > Preferences> Accessibility)

Please let us know if this works for you by posting/commenting on this post.

By @AnandSri

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Flavia26702652yqjm

Participating Frequently

I recently changed laptop and now I have the same problem, PDF page background changed to Yellow instead of no background.

If I choose the ICC Profile called sRGB IEC61966-2.1 the situation improves but this profile doesn’t remain set, it automatically resets to the DEFAULT profile.

Isn't there an Adobe patch yet to fix this problem?

Thanks a lot for your help.

M

Martin24216045gm8s

Participant

Whilst this makes it appear white in most zoom levels, some zoom levels show yellow and importantly when printing, it comes out yellow.

Any other tips?