Adobe Acrobat question

I've got a pdf that has a purple background. If I try to print it, the background comes out gray - difficult to read, and a huge waste of toner (the doc is 135 pages).

I can get it to appear on the screen without the purple background, but when I print, it still comes out shaded. Also tried printing to PDF, but the purple re-appeared.

Any suggestions?

Can you copy and paste the text into a word document?

When you go to print, does your printer preferences give you the option of "print background" with a checkbox next to it? If so, uncheck that box. 

One other thing to try is to print to pdf and in the top "Printer" section, there's a pull-down that says "Comments and Forms" and you can choose "Form Fields Only" - that may work...other than that or pulling the doc into photoshop and manually taking out the background with the magic wand or something, I'm not sure...sorry. :(

Well, that's much simpler than my suggestion! hehe Why didn't I think of that -  copy and paste the text into word...? Awesome! that should work. :)

Original Post by floggingsully:

Can you copy and paste the text into a word document?

I considered that - but all of the formatting gets messed up, and 135 pages would be a lot to do...

darwin - I've scoured the print options, and can't find that (gone into advanced, etc). Unfortunately, no photoshop, but I'll try the Comments and Forms idea.

let me know if it works! Good luck!

Going to Form Fields Only ended up making the entire pdf blank I might be doomed to read this whole thing on the screen, and that never ends well.

yeah, no....I'm sorry - I don't know what I was thinking with that form fields thing - totally different idea. 

Anyway, I called my husband, the IT guy, and he says that it can't be done unless you manually remove the background in photoshop or any other graphics program, or if you remove it from the original doc. 

I just had another idea, though...what if you lightened the document on the printing preferences ?  make sure that you are printing black and white and then move the bar to the lightest it can go? Can you do that? Your text should still be dark enough to read this way....It may work....

I HATE reading documents off my computer screen too! and especially if it's 135 pages worth! Once again, good luck to you!

Are you using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to open the file?

Acrobat 7.0, but I tried it in Reader, too.