Difficulty Highlighting Search Results

[Stan Burman]

I am running Adobe Acrobat Pro v. 2023.006.20320 on my MacBook Pro that is running macOS Ventura 13.5.2.

I frequently like to search for specific words in a pdf, and I used to get search results with the word highlighted as I would click through the occurences of the word in the document.

But now that highlighting seems to have disappeared. The search result occurence word text is now in a blue color that is so close to black that they are difficult to find. There is no background highlight, or it is an imperceptible white.

Is there some obscure but governing setting I could make or change (I assume in Acrobat Preferences) that would return the search results to having a light gray background highlight so they would be easier to see?

Thanks for any assistance,

Stan

[Amal.]

Hi @Stan Burman 

Hope you are doing well, and thanks for reaching.

I have tried reproducing the issue on my end, and it works fine.

Would you mind sharing a small video recording of the issue at your end for a better understanding?

As you have the recent version of the application, please try to reset the Acrobat preferences as described here https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-defau...

You may also try to create a new test user profile with full admin rights or enable the root account in MAC and try using the application there and check.

Let us know how it goes.

~Amal

[Stan Burman · Accepted solution]

Hello Amal,

Thanks very much for your reply.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Acrobat Pro, and that seems to have corrected the issue.

I had probably messed something up when playing with settings.

Anyway, thanks again,

Stan

[Amal.]

Hi there

We are glad to hear that. Feel Free to contact us for any assistance required in the future.

~Amal