change font colour

mmoni · Post by **mmoni** » Thu May 23, 2024 8:31 pm

Hello,
I have a pdf file where font colour is grey. Is there a simple solution to change it to black? The pdf is over 200 pages long.

Post by **Paul - PDF-XChange** » Thu May 23, 2024 9:01 pm

Hi, mmoni

thanks for the post and excellent question.

Try this and let me know how it goes?

1. Open the "Content pane:

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2. Select all the text:

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3. Change the text properties via either the Dynamic "Format" tab or by opening the "Properties Pane" (CTRL+`)

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I am keen to hear how that goes for you.

mmoni · Post by **mmoni** » Fri May 24, 2024 10:40 pm

Thank you for your answer. Your suggestion didn't work, but while playing around, I've discovered "improve scans" button, and this one worked quite well.

Fri May 24, 2024 11:07 pm

thomas.a · Post by **thomas.a** » Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:54 am

Is there a setting in the export-settings for this? I exported from OneNote using pdf-Xchange and text gets grayed out but your suggestion works in the pdf. But thats not a thing you want to do after every export, you want it to be black as default.
/T

Mon Jun 02, 2025 2:09 pm

Hello thomas.a,

Welcome to our forums.
Can you please share one sample file of the result you get as well as a screenshot of how you see that file on your end?
Normally you should get a PDF file looking the same as what you had in your original application, so if the PDF looks different - I suspect some viewing settings (e.g. accessibility colour override) might be causing this!

Kind regards,
Stefan