Make Markups Easier To See, Especially for Colorblind Eyes

For anyone with color vision deficiencies, there is a way to make markups stand out from the drawing.

On the menu bar select View—>Dimmer—>20% (or your choice)

This fades the PDF but NOT the markups.

I searched this discussion board and there were no results for colorblindness, colorblind, or color vision, so I thought I would post this here and save people time.

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MarkG

This is great advice. We have a colorblind individual in the office and have often thought about how we might help to accommodate his vision. When asked, his honest response was "its fine, I work through it". However, if this helps communicate pertinent information then that is a bonus for everyone.

JPace

I'm glad this may help. I used this function and found 2 redlines I missed on a marked-up document after I had "worked through it" already.

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