Mar-28-2023, 02:20 AM
(This post was last modified: Mar-29-2023, 08:06 AM by newbieAuggie2019.)
Hello again, everybody!
I try to keep working on my better understanding and use of Python, at least, as much as my little free time allows me...
I was taught not to underline or make any other marks on a book, as it would be then deemed defiled. That's why I use the pdf format as long as I can afford it, and then I fill it up with underlines, highlights, and notes.
The problem I have now, is that Adobe automatically updates its software Acrobat reader, and now all the extensive soft magenta underlining I had made is invisible, as I show here:
![[Image: missing-parts-of-the-characters-with-the-invisible.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/7h5krQxL/missing-parts-of-the-characters-with-the-invisible.png)
On the left of the highlighted "True or False", there is "values: either" that supposedly is underlined in a soft magenta shade that now is invisible, and looks as if the lower parts of the underlined characters are missing. After changing the underline colour to red, it becomes visible again:
![[Image: After-changing-the-invisible-magenta-und...to-red.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/BZTyX0zG/After-changing-the-invisible-magenta-underline-to-red.png)
When I open the colour palette for the possible undelining, a pinkish magenta underline is possible, but actually not visible. The same applies to the two shades of orange underlining, and one shade of yellow underlining:
![[Image: Another-shade-of-pinkish-magenta-underli...isible.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/vHMmVGH7/Another-shade-of-pinkish-magenta-underline-invisible.png)
I spent hours changing a pdf with my now invisible underlining to a current visible underlining.
I would like to know if it is possible for this manually tiredsome and endless task to do it automatically with python, as I have the same problem with other pdf files.
I have no idea how to do it. Please, can you help me?
I guess another solution would be to find a previous version of the free Acrobat Reader before they changed the underline choice, and try to make it not updatable, if that is possible...
The option to do it automatically with Python would be a whole new challenge for me, using pdf files and working on a choice of underlining inside the software, but I would prefer trying to do it with Python and learn new things on the way.
Thanks a lot for your help,
I try to keep working on my better understanding and use of Python, at least, as much as my little free time allows me...
I was taught not to underline or make any other marks on a book, as it would be then deemed defiled. That's why I use the pdf format as long as I can afford it, and then I fill it up with underlines, highlights, and notes.
The problem I have now, is that Adobe automatically updates its software Acrobat reader, and now all the extensive soft magenta underlining I had made is invisible, as I show here:
On the left of the highlighted "True or False", there is "values: either" that supposedly is underlined in a soft magenta shade that now is invisible, and looks as if the lower parts of the underlined characters are missing. After changing the underline colour to red, it becomes visible again:
When I open the colour palette for the possible undelining, a pinkish magenta underline is possible, but actually not visible. The same applies to the two shades of orange underlining, and one shade of yellow underlining:
I spent hours changing a pdf with my now invisible underlining to a current visible underlining.
I would like to know if it is possible for this manually tiredsome and endless task to do it automatically with python, as I have the same problem with other pdf files.
I have no idea how to do it. Please, can you help me?
I guess another solution would be to find a previous version of the free Acrobat Reader before they changed the underline choice, and try to make it not updatable, if that is possible...
The option to do it automatically with Python would be a whole new challenge for me, using pdf files and working on a choice of underlining inside the software, but I would prefer trying to do it with Python and learn new things on the way.
Thanks a lot for your help,
newbieAuggie2019
"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
Steve Jobs
"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
Steve Jobs
