
That’s a lotta yellow, for sure! Some folk, however, really like that sort of high contrast, cheery color, which is great.

In Preview, it’s actually front and center on the Preferences… window! But let’s start with a PDF Preview that has a rather glaring yellow as its background color: This happens in graphics editors too, along with document editors like Pages and Word, and most of these programs let you tweak the background color to make it more pleasing to your eye or match your existing color palette, as desired. Like many other programs, Preview also has the concept of a window that’s often larger than what it’s displaying. It’s also completely compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader and similar programs too, even on Windows, so it’s multiplatform friendly, which isn’t always true of Apple software (ever tried sending emoji in Messages to an Android user?) You can also select the box "Make Properties Default" so that future Comment Text Boxes will have the same properties.There are a lot of different programs for reading and reviewing PDF documents on a Mac OS X system nowadays, but I’m with you: the Apple Preview program is a winner, simple, elegant and easy to work with. Use that to change the background color to what you need. Either way, on the right side of this box is a "Fill Color" option. Or, sometimes, you can click on the outside border and right click to bring up the "properties" option. If not, NOW you can select the box, after you move it, and you can hit and a properties box will come up. At this point point the back ground might be satisfactory for you since by default it has a white background. Click on it again and move it into the desired position.ħ. Hit enter or click outside the box so the text box is set into the document.Ħ. Creat the text you want in the new COMMENT text box that appears, adjusting the text style you desire per the controls listed.ĥ. Then click the text box icon on the Comment Ribbon (its a square box with text letter "T" in it).Ĥ. Click on the "Comment" icon under Review and Approve.ģ. click on the tools button (just to the right of the "Home") whihc will bring up a list of icons, with groups such as create & edit, review & approve, forms & signatures, etc. open the document you want to add text to.Ģ. YOU CANNOT CHANGE TEXT BACKGROUND BY USING THE "ADD TEXT" ICON-you will be stuck in perdition and burn forever if you do this.ġ. Anyway, the only condition is if you following the following steps. Who in the heck knows why this was designed like this, but I am sure the designers had a reason.

) is only available in a very narrow set of conditions in Adobe. The recurring problem is that the properties box to change the background of a box of text (i.e.
