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how do I do this PDF with grey background?
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I know in TextEdit and Pages this will work.
Open your document. Go to the Edit menu and click on Select all. Now open the Font Panel by pressing command-t and choosing the paper color (the icon along the top of the font panel which looks like a piece of paper). This will bring up the color panel. Select the color you want and it will instantly fill the entire page background. (Or whatever you have selected.)
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Originally Posted by kcmac
This will bring up the color panel. Select the color you want and it will instantly fill the entire page background. (Or whatever you have selected.)
This is where I get stuck, I opened my resume in TextEdit and couldn't figure out the rest. What I mean is that I want to post my resume just like Apple's instruction manual: Here's an example one.
Just like this one: resume in PDF
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Originally Posted by Matt OS X
This is where I get stuck, I opened my resume in TextEdit and couldn't figure out the rest. What I mean is that I want to post my resume just like Apple's instruction manual: Here's an example one.
Just like this one: resume in PDF
It looks like you are trying for a gray background. I will add a few more instructions.
Open your resumé in TextEdit.
Click the select all option from Edit in the Menu Bar. (Or hit applekey and A). You want to highlight all the text for the entire document.
Now hit the applekey and T and the font panel will open.
You should be able to see several "Effects" in the bar along the top of the font panel. The first from left to right is the text Underline, the next is text strike thru, the third is text color and the next is the document color. This is the one you want to select. (If you don't see these effects, go to the bottom of the font panel. Click on the icon that looks like a gear. Click on the gear and select "Show effects." Now you will see the effects at the top of the panel)
Now with your text still all selected or highlighted in TextEdit, Click on the document color icon.
This will bring up the color panel. Select the color you want to use for the background of your document.
When you select the color, it will automatically fill in your entire page or pages.
Hopefully, that helps.
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Originally Posted by Matt OS X
That PDF has a white background on my machine (Adobe Reader 7).
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Originally Posted by tooki
That PDF has a white background on my machine (Adobe Reader 7).
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Looks fairly white here as well. I'm just goin with the flow. He says he wants a gray background so I'm just tryin to get him there. 
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when you open your resume, zoom out, you will see that gray background????
Is that what you mean?, in the examples the contents are white, the back border of the pdf window is whats gray, has nothing to do with the document
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Originally Posted by Photo678
when you open your resume, zoom out, you will see that gray background????
Is that what you mean?, in the examples the contents are white, the back border of the pdf window is whats gray, has nothing to do with the document
...and you can change that colour in Preview Preferences>General as well, fwiw.
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Originally Posted by Photo678
when you open your resume, zoom out, you will see that gray background????
Is that what you mean?, in the examples the contents are white, the back border of the pdf window is whats gray, has nothing to do with the document
He's surely talking about the document, not the window. (ie, the dark gray you are referring to will not print.)
It is still hard to tell that the document has a gray color to it but it seems to.
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Originally Posted by kcmac
It is still hard to tell that the document has a gray color to it but it seems to.
Nope, the DigitalColor Meter (/Apps/Utils/) says it's 100% white.
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I always forget about that little utility. Who knows what he's thinking then?
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Originally Posted by tooki
Nope, the DigitalColor Meter (/Apps/Utils/) says it's 100% white.
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It is because he is using the Shuberit PDF plugin instead of the Acrobat 7 plugin I think (it shows the pdf against a gray background).
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You guys aren't helping me here.. I know some of you are trying but nothing has accomplished like the one I see in website that i posted above of this thread...
Anyone?
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Originally Posted by Matt OS X
You guys aren't helping me here.. I know some of you are trying but nothing has accomplished like the one I see in website that i posted above of this thread...
Anyone?
Well, everything you linked to shows up as white in Adobe Reader 7 for me as well. Maybe you can take a screenshot of what you're seeing on your Mac and then we can help.
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Matt....the document(s) that you link to are WHITE...they aren't grey, or remotely close to grey. The only grey in those images is the back window of acrobat.
download the file to your desktop, open in reader and you will see what everyone else sees.
Other than that, I don't think any of us have the first clue what you are talking about.
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Err, I think the PDF you are seeing in your browser is on a white background, and the window in which it is presented has a grey surroung (as others have mentioned). Open the PDF you are looking at in Preview, or print it out and I think you will see what everyone means. Cheers.
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No, what seems to be happening is that the PDF seems to have no background color, so different PDF renderers are putting a different background color behind the text.
As for a fix... why not just draw a page-size rectangle behind the text in the color you want?
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I already gave him pretty detailed instructions on how to make a colored background. That is what he seemed to be after. Now it just appears we are talking to ourselves. See ya.
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well care to enlighten the rest of us as to what the heckle and jyde he was talking about?
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Guys, forget it.. I'll figure something else anyway.. hmm I couldn't view my Resume.pdf when I put "Resume.pdf" in my iDisk's Document folder...
I typed http://homepage.mac.com/mattklusza/Documents/Resume.pdf and it didn't work? How?
Or should I add 'period' before Documents? ----> .Documents/Resume.pdf ???
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Originally Posted by Matt OS X
Guys, forget it.. I'll figure something else anyway.. hmm I couldn't view my Resume.pdf when I put "Resume.pdf" in my iDisk's Document folder...
I typed http://homepage.mac.com/mattklusza/Documents/Resume.pdf and it didn't work? How?
Or should I add 'period' before Documents? ----> .Documents/Resume.pdf ???
iDisk binhexes files that are added to the Documents folder. You won't be able to view it as a pdf in your browser - you'll have to download it first.
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Yeah, whoo.. it worked.. so where can I find more information about typing the correct urls related with iDisk?
Thanks a bunch.
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Originally Posted by Matt OS X
Yeah, whoo.. it worked.. so where can I find more information about typing the correct urls related with iDisk?
Thanks a bunch.
Google.
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This thread makes my head hurt... 
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This thread makes my head hurt
must be a bad case of threadhead, or PTPS (post-traumatic poster syndrome 
Use grannies remedy: take 21.36 asprin, stare at the ceiling for about 4 hours, and call us in the morning 
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