Save PDF with inverted colors

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I have been trying to invert the colors of my PDF so that it has white text on a black background. I have found information about how to use Accessibility features within the app so that it appears this way in Adobe, but I would like to invert the colors permanently in the document so that it still appears this way in other apps like Preview. I have seen a suggestion to change background and text colors, but when I attempt this it only will apply those changes to single pages at a time, and this file is over 100 pages long. I have also seen a suggestion to do some light coding using another program but would love to avoid that if possible. This seems like a fairly straightforward task - is there an easy way to do it? Thanks.

Dov Isaacs · Accepted Answer

Sorry.No, there is no easy way, i.e. a built-in action or preflight fixup, to do this! Making permanent changes to all the objects (even defining what those should be) in a PDF file is much more complex than “inverting” the raster bitmap being displayed when accessibility features are invoked. - Dov

IPDave · Answer

The only permanent way I've found is to open the PDF in Word and make the background black and the text white (or grey).  Then export to a new PDF file.

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