Here's a tip for fans of dark mode: how to get white text on a black background in Acrobat Reader.
These instructions are for the latest (and highly enshittified) release of Acrobat Reader.
1. Click the hamburger menu icon in the upper left.
2. From the menu,, click Preferences.
3. In the Categories list, click Accessibility.
4. Select Replace Document Colors.
5. Then select Use High-Contrast colors and choose White text on black from the High-contrast color combination list.
6. Click OK.
In step 5, you could select Custom Color and then pick your text and background colours.
I'm posting this because I cannot easily read PDFs with black text on a white background. The current release of Acrobat Reader changed whatever settings I had in the past to give me dark mode in PDFs, and it's been driving me crazy for a while now.
Some PDFs may not work well with these settings;. for example, tables with shading will be a problem. I will have to experiment more to see if other settings in the Accessibility dialog will help.
If you know of a (preferably free) PDF reader that works well in dark mode, please leave me a comment.
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