{"id":62653,"date":"2024-02-13T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/62653\/sumatrapdf-pdf-is-displayed-in-black\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:53:09","slug":"sumatrapdf-pdf-is-displayed-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/62653\/sumatrapdf-pdf-is-displayed-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"SumatraPDF &#8211; PDF is displayed in black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark background in PDF? Even without dark mode?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Somehow I must have pressed the wrong key combination in SumtraPDF today. In any case, the background of the PDF was suddenly dark or black. Switching between dark mode and light mode did nothing, as it only affected the PDF itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"539\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_1.png 931w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_1-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_1-768x445.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The solution<\/h2>\n<p>After some trial and error, I found the setting. Under Settings &#8211; Advanced options, there are lots of settings. These are opened in a text editor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2.png 493w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we find the setting &#8220;InvertColors&#8221;. We set this from &#8220;true&#8221; to &#8220;false&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2_1.png 373w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2_1-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_2_1-100x80.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The PDF is then displayed again with a white background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_3.png 577w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sumatra_3-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark background in PDF? Even without dark mode?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}