Text Formatting ⇒ Text changes dark/light (& black-color/greyscale) ... help!

[adammcd]

I am writing my thesis and some pages have lighter text than others. Either the whole page has a darker text or the whole page has a lighter text (pages 1-26, 32-58, etc. have darker [normal?] text & pages 27-31, 59-61, etc. have light [lighter than normal?] text). Here is an example of the word "corresponding" from two different pages:

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I am using some thesis style guide created by someone some years ago, so I don't know much about it.

I use texmaker 1.6 (I know it's old, I hate the newer versions) on a macbook, but I have also tried texshop with the same results. I have also tried both Preview and Adobe Reader and I get the same results when viewing the PDF.

Here is something interesting: If I import the above example ("corresponding") into Photoshop, the darker image appears as mostly black pixels but with some colored pixels too, while the lighter image appears with only black and grey pixels. Could it be changing back and forth from black & white (greyscale) mode and color mode or something like that? I don't recall using any color-related commands in my latex document. Hmm... help?

-Adam

[meho_r]

Hi and welcome to the forum. Unfortunately, without a MWE (Minimal Working Example) I doubt anyone can give you a hand, sorry.

[adammcd]

Heh, I don't think a MWE is possible as this only seems to happen with 50+ page documents with lots of complicated figures and such.

I was just wondering if there was some command that could set text back and forth from greyscale to color (black, but in color). OR, if someone had run across this type of problem before. I don't expect anyone to 'debug' my code or anything like that.

Thanks anyways!

[meho_r]

Then you'll need to do "debugging" yourself. Try changing the font and see if there is any difference. I noticed something like this in some PDF files created in Scribus, when there are images along the text (which, in fact, was a PDF viewer issue), but never in a document created by LaTeX.