How to remove the PDF red grid when printing in 2022

1. Introduction
2. Removing the PDF red grid
   1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader
      1. Removing the Line Weights
3. Quick steps to remove the PDF red grid

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Introduction

When printing a PDF, sometimes you might find that there is a red grid all over the pages that doesn’t appear when viewing the document. In this post I will show you how to remove the PDF red grid.

Removing the PDF red grid

Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader

So you’ve just printed out a document but you don’t really want the PDF red grid/checkered lines all over the pages, that’s okay. To remove them you need to open the PDF in ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader DC‘. To do this simply ‘right click‘ the file > ‘Open with‘ > Select ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader DC‘ and open your PDF that way.

How to open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

Removing the Line Weights

When the PDF has opened in Adobe Acrobat, you need to go to ‘View‘ > ‘Show/Hide‘ > ‘Rulers & Grids‘ > Click on ‘Line Weights‘ to untick it.

How to turn off the line weights in Adobe that cause the red checkered grid to appear on printouts.

And that’s it! As is shown in the image you can also just open the PDF in Adobe and then press ‘Ctrl+5‘ to turn off the line weights without having to go into the ‘View‘ options.

Quick steps to remove the PDF red grid

Open the PDF in ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader DC‘ and press ctrl+5