[Commons and Lords] Colouring a paperback for printing

The following instructions explain how to edit the Consolidated List to change it’s font colour for printing.

1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat pro (this process will not work in Adobe Reader).

2. In your Tools bar on the right, selected “Edit PDF” (If you can’t find the Tools bar, there should be a Tools tab next to the Home button in the top-left of the window)

3. On the right-hand side of the page, a panel called “Format” should have appeared.

4. Zoom out so the whole of a page is within view.

5. Use Ctrl+A to select all the text on the page

6. Select the Font Colour box in the Format panel. (The Font Colour box may have been replaced by a ? symbol in a circle – select this if it has).

7. Select the colour that you need to change the text to.

8. Repeat for each page in the document.

Things to look out for:

• This process sometimes slightly alters pagination within individual text boxes. If it does, just slightly alter the affected text box (dragging to the left, slightly extending etc.).

• Where amendment numbers appear without a letter (eg. 1 instead of 1A, or 10 instead of 10A) this process will add an underscore for some reason, so 1 will become 1_ and 10 will become 10_. These underscores will need removing.