Invert Pdf Colors Edge

By clicking on its icon in your menu bar, you can invert the colors of your web pages, making blindingly bright black-on-white sites white-on-black for easier viewing. It ignores photos, too, so. How to invert the colors of your screen (negative) under Windows for easier reading and less radiation from the display. How to turn the white background int. The feature is only available in Edge Canary at the time of writing (version 80.0.317.1). It will, likely, become available in Edge Beta and Stable at one point in time. Load edge://flags in the browser's address bar. Search for dark; this should return the flag Force Dark Mode for Web Contents. Set the flag to Enabled.

Easier nighttime reading has become possible with the facility to change or invert the colors in a PDF file. Many people have a habit of reading at night, as this activity helps them feel sleepy, just before bedtime.

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Personal Reading Devices

In today’s digital gadget market, there are plenty of devices that you can use to do some personal reading, like Kindles, iPads and iPhones, tablets, and Androids to name a few. You can use any of these devices to do some nighttime reading. Is this nighttime reading activity, easier nighttime reading in your experience? The emphasis on the previous question is on the word “easier.” Let us discuss the reasons why?

PDF Default

PDF stands for portable document format and is a file format to create, view and share documents in electronic form, regardless of the word processor used to create the document. The PDF format, was developed by Adobe and is widely used on the internet for user manuals, training documents and even text books, which can be viewed online, today.

PDF files however, can only be viewed in its typical, black text on a white screen background, which is its default screen format. For people with poor vision this screen format can be a strain on their eyes, and the problem can be further exacerbated at nighttime. Is it possible to convert the PDF to a different screen color to facilitate easier nighttime reading?

The reason that the PDF is defaulted this way is to ensure that the formatting of the documents, is preserved; irrespective of which operating system or device the PDF document is viewed on.

Dark Room

If you are in a dark bedroom at bedtime, wanting to do some reading, then you may probably want to change the color scheme of your document to lessen the brightness of your screen a bit and do some easier nighttime reading. There is a special setting that you can use in Adobe Acrobat Reader to achieve this purpose.

Color Schemes

You can select different color schemes to narrow down the best one that facilitates easier nighttime reading for your comfort.

Invert for Easier Nighttime Reading

  • When you have opened your PDF document, choose File.
  • Choose Save as text.
  • Give the PDF file a name and location (example, Word) in the dialog box that comes up. Click Save and exit.
  • Open MS Word.
  • Click Open and select the PDF file you had just saved as text in Word.
  • At the top of the PDF text screen, click the Page Layout tab, then Page Color, which is located in the Page background box and select any color to change the background, for example black and then click ok and Exit.
  • Now select the Home tab and click the Font box to open it. Select a color for your text, for example white. Click Save.

Now your screen will show inverted colors that helps for easier nighttime reading.

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Conclusion

The process to invert or change the colors in a PDF file to a white text on a black background from the default black text on a white background is easy to implement and facilitates easier nighttime reading and can ease the strain on your eyes.

Posted August 25, 2012 by Lê Hoàng in Microsoft Word

Reading a long document in Word 2013 with a white background may affect your laptop battery life, your vision, and your sanity. A nice alternative is to view the document in inverted mode.

Many people believe that reading black text on a white background is harmful for a large variety of reasons. It may consume more battery life. It is much harder to read in bright light. Additionally, people with some vision problems can read better when lighter text is used on a darker background. Obviously, this is a personal preference, but it is a helpful option with which to be aware.

From Word 2013 onward, the program has Read Mode which minimizes all the clutter and lets users focus on the content of the document. Through these steps, you can also invert the colors to make reading even easier.

If you own an Android smartphone, you should consider switching the browser to the inverted mode too.

Invert Pdf Colors Edge

1. Launch Word 2013 and open the document that you want to read.

2. Expand the program’s ribbon if it is minimized and switch to the View tab.

3. Click the Read Mode at the beginning of the line to activate this mode.

4. When you are viewing the document in the Read mode, all buttons will be minimized to help you focus on the content. By default, the document will be displayed on a white background. To change the page color to inverse, click View -> Page Color -> Inverse.

5. The default white background will then be switched to black and the text will be converted to white color.

6. Later, when you want to switch back to the Edit mode, click View -> Edit Document.

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