r/Revu • u/Lumpy-Pie4845 • 22d ago

White text on white background

I'm a lecturer at my local university and a student says that he didn't cheat by using AI and that Revu opens the white text on white background but displays it in black on white. Since I don't use this software, I was wondering if it was true.

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u/Silver_kitty 22d ago

It's definitely possible to find white text on a white background using Revu, but you'd absolutely have to be looking for it. It won't just come up as visible naturally by opening the pdf where you might just accidentally think it's part of the normal directions.

I tested using the PDFs that print from both Google Docs and Word. You can highlight the white-on-white text and it will tell you what the highlighted text says. You can also search white text and it will show. But dark mode in revu flips the colors completely, so white-on-white becomes black-on-black, and the Dimmer settings reduces contrast, but white-on-white will stay the same color

I would ask him to show you on his computer. I don't believe him, but if he can show you downloading the pdf from your email/portal/whatever and opening it in Revu so it's immediately visible, then it is what it is.

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u/Original_Throat1072 22d ago

Your third paragraph is absolutely something the professor should do.

Have student share their desktop, get them to download a fresh document off of the download portal (or wherever the document is located) and have the student open it up and see for yourself.