ben.hamilton.id.au » Adobe Reader http://ben.hamilton.id.au Getting your act together with CRM Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Beat Adobe Reader black and red http://ben.hamilton.id.au/how-to/beat-adobe-reader-black-and-red http://ben.hamilton.id.au/how-to/beat-adobe-reader-black-and-red#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:18:51 +0000 Ben Hamilton http://ben.hamilton.id.au/how-to/beat-adobe-reader-black-and-red On a Terminal Server today some users were experiencing red and black patches appearing when they opened PDF files.

A Knowledge Base article at Adobe indicates a similar, but evidently not the same, issue having been rectified in Adobe Reader 8.1 – that of the color not being rendered correctly for the first rectangle object in a section of a PDF document. Evidently not the same because it didn’t work for me. What did work however was disabling Text Smoothing.

Here is how to do it:

Open Adobe Reader | Document | Accessibility Setup Assistant | Set all accessibility options | Next

TICK THE BOX to DISABLE TEXT SMOOTHING

Next | Next | Next | Done

And bingo, no more red and black patches appearing.

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