Recent content by chris.pearson

Thanks - I took the plunge and signed in with the new account, which was enough to allow me to run System Restore to go back to an earlier restore point, and all is now well.

I've done a really stupid thing and badly messed up my PC. I used netplwiz to change my user name to something closer to my real name, but as soon as I did that, I can't start any programs because I get the message above. Mine was the only account on the machine (it's also my Microsoft acct)...

Thanks. I've also raised this question in the Adobe Forum, but got no response at all. Looks like living with it is the only option for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for clarifying that. The links provide some useful background. That explains why this behaviour stops when the sidebar is hidden (allowing the visible document to be wider and the font to be larger). And there's a similar behaviour for other hard-to-see characters such as ' (single...

Thanks for providing some explanation of what's going on However, I've looked at the text very closely and I can see no unmatched parens within the box. If there are any, they must be deeper into the document. Is there a way to switch off this unhelpful facility?

In Acrobat Reader DC 2019.008.20074, under Windows 10, when I search for ")" (left paren), it finds the next occurrence and highiights it, but it also places a blue rectangle around a larger area of the text (containing the left paren). When I move the mouse pointer into the rectangle, it...