Pages: Colors inverted

[ULEE]

Hello,

the text color in iWorks Pages (08) seems to be inverted. Though the text colour is set to black all the text appears white. I couldnt find any way to change this "setting" so the colour appears normal again.

Has anyone experienced the same problem and/or knows how to fix without reinstalling iWork?

Thanks.

Julian

 

[PeggyD]

The first thing I would check would be System Preferences > Universal Access. White on Black may have accidentally been set.

 

[Gregg2]

That setting would reverse colors in everything. If it's just Pages, try replacing the com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist file.

You'll find it in your Home folder > Library > Preferences. Drag it out onto your Desktop, then open Pages. It will create a fresh plist file.

Did either of these things work for you?

 

[jaredonline]

Same issue for me

I'm having the same issue, but recreating the Pages .plist file didn't help.

 

[Gregg2]

...but only in Pages? If system-wide, try the suggestion in post #2.

If not, or if that isn't it, try logging in under a different user account. Do you still have the problem then?

 

[TheMechanic]

Same problem here!!

In all iWork apps the font colors are inverted. Even after a complete reinstall of the whole system!!

Your help would be appreciated!!

 

[Gregg2]

Your help would be appreciated!!

Try the suggestion above, and report your results.

 

[TheMechanic]

I figured out what was the problem.

I have iWork '08 which I bought for my MacBook with 10.5 Leopard. I then upgraded to 10.6 Snow Leopard and suddenly all font colors in the iWork apps were inverted.
I tried everything from reinstalling iWork to completely erase my HDD and start over. But nothing solved the problem. Only thing I apparently never did was updating the iWork apps via Software Update. After I did that everything is fine now.

It seems like the combination of iWork '08 and Snow Leopard inverts the font colors which gets fixed with a simple iWork update.

Now I ask myself why I haven't updated iWork in the last 3 month...