PDF reader for Academics

es3w · November 6, 2016

Hello,
Does anybody know of a PDF reader for desktop PC that lets the user to configure the highlight matching text colours while running a CTRL+F simple text search?

I have some vision loss that makes difficult to immediately spot where the matched text is. The matching highlight colour is locked as a light grey one, which can be hard to view on a white page setting. I currently use FoxIt and have spode with them but they have no plans to add this feature yet.

Would be happy to know what PDF reader software you use while working on the desktop.

Regards,
Eduardo

bwiernik · November 7, 2016

Try Microsoft's Reader app. It has good accessibility in my experience. Not sure if it has this particular feature, but if I recall, it does highlight the found text in a bright color.

dragonfly · November 7, 2016

@es3w

This discussion might give some clues on how to setup Foxit Reader style.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=3000587

However, I have not applied this yet to my Foxit Reader.