Customize page margin background color

Jane

I have been using Sumatra PDF for a long time, and I think that this is one of the best PDF viewers available for use. I know the text color and its background for FixedPageUI can be customized, but I wonder if the page margin (the left and right side of the page, usually just white) can be customized as well. If not, which I guess, can it be added to the software?
Thank you for such an excellent software!

tiboine

I was so annoyed with adobe acrobat with not supporting smooth scrolling in fullscreen. So I found Sumatra. Great, it supports smooth scrolling in full screen. win!

But, for some otherworldly reason, the background is grey! And no way to change it?
Sure, in presentation mode the background is black, but then smooth scrolling doesn’t work.

is there a universal law that prohibits things to be perfect?
Sorry for this rant. Just annoyed in general when things are changed for no reason.

GitHubRulesOK

@tiboine

don’t have time just now to find the specific command but if you search forum and github issues for the word GradientColors you should find the setting you need it does not need to be three colours you can specify ONE.(or two)

[Later] the official description for changing GradientColors, which also applies to fullscreen (and other color choices) can be found at http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/settings.html for an example of gradient colors in action see
https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1007

For Example in SumatraPDf-settings.txt
directly under FixedPageUI

FixedPageUI [
	TextColor = #000000
	BackgroundColor = #ffc0ff
	GradientColors = #2828aa #28aa28 #aa2828
	SelectionColor = #f5fc0c
]

jack-nguyen68

Untitled
how to change that color which I drew on this pic? in book view mode
thank u

GitHubRulesOK

It looks like you are using Fixed Page UI (User Interface)
the canvas area you show is affected by a Settings> Advanced Option

just add
GradientColors #ff0000

like this

FixedPageUI [
GradientColors #ff0000
	TextColor = #000000
        ...

will add full red colour to all background canvas

you can add 2 or 3 colour gradients from start to finish of document
e.g. for blue to red to green it is GradientColors #0000ff #ff0000 #00ff00

or any mix you wish hexadecimal values are 00-ff for #RRGGBB

If you are referring to the background to change that color it is changed like this

FixedPageUI [
	TextColor = #000000
	BackgroundColor = #ff0000

jack-nguyen68

thank u so much!!!

aic13

I updated today to version 3.2, and the background color changed as can be seen in the first image into the color seen in the second image attached below. Is there an option to change this in the advanced settings anywhere? Thank you. This change is blinding me.

GitHubRulesOK

Yes at the top of FixedPageUI in advanced Settings
add in GradientColors such as
GradientColors = #012345 #abcdef #ffff00
you can use one two or three with a space between

for your case try simply

    FixedPageUI [
        GradientColors=#bbbbbb
        TextColor = #000000

aic13

Thank you! For some reason, GradientColors wasn’t there, so I had to add the line. #bbbbbb is perfect, but I’m sure that I’ll toy around with different colors and combinations before returning back to #bbbbbb!

GitHubRulesOK

Its “experimental” thus no guarantee to be in every version but has been available for sometime