Disable dark mode for PDF in DTTG3

derek_beatty · February 13, 2021, 1:03am

I read scientific magazines in DTTG. How do I disable dark mode so that photographs show proper colors?

michaelmillerjr · February 13, 2021, 1:25am

Settings > PDF auto dark mode

I don’t think there’s a way to toggle the view for an individual file. Seems to be an app-wide setting.

BLUEFROG · February 13, 2021, 3:42pm

Please be clear here: photographs aren’t inverted in dark mode. PDFs have the dark mode toggle as mentioned by @michaelmillerjr and this would apply if you had an images as a PDF file.

derek_beatty · February 13, 2021, 4:45pm

To be clear, the photographs in a magazine that is distributed as a PDF file have their colors inverted if PDFs are displayed in dark mode. Thanks for the tip about settings.

BLUEFROG · February 13, 2021, 6:45pm

You’re welcome.

Gabriel · May 24, 2026, 12:29pm

If anyone’s interested, here’s where you disable it on DEVONthink 4.

BLUEFROG · May 24, 2026, 2:20pm

Welcome @Gabriel
That does disable dark mode for PDFs but it is a global setting and disables it for other document types as well. If you want to just affect PDF documents, select Help > Hidden Preferences and click the On link for DisablePDFDarkMode.