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Please see the GIF below. My Custom Green Color (R, G, B) = (76, 230, 0) isn't appearing when I click the Color icon; only the Default Colors appear.

It's too unproductive to click (1) on the Color icon, (2) 'Other Colors', (3) then my Custom Green Color every time I fancy it.

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There is no way, as far as I know, to modify the user interface of Adobe Acrobat Pro.

The only solution that I see is to create a shortcut to a macro that will do the required 8 clicks for you. This assumes that the Adobe window is always displayed at the same position on the screen, so that the clicks are always on the same well-defined spots.

Required tools that need to be installed:

The procedure is divided into two parts.

Part 1 : Record the clicks

  • Run Pulover’s Macro Creator

  • Set the menu Macro > Recording Options as below, to record only clicks (Keystrokes are incidental):

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  • Start recording using menu Macro > Record Macro

  • Ensure that Acrobat is the front windows
  • Click F9 to start recording
  • Click in Acrobat on the Color button, then on "Other Color...", your custom color and finally on OK
  • Click F9 again to stop recording
  • Click in the traybar on the icon of Pulover’s Macro Creator to open its window
  • You will see the AutoHotkey commands in the right-hand pane, so click in it
  • Press Ctrl+A to select everything
  • Press Ctrl+C to copy the text to the clipboard

Part 2 : Create the macro

  • Use Notepad or another editor to create a text file named something.ahk

  • Add a first line for the shortcut key, paste the above text after it, and terminate with a return command. My macro looked like this, where I used F12 as the shortcut key:

    F12::
Click, 1353, 414 Left, , Down
Sleep, 10
Click, 1352, 415 Left, , Up
Sleep, 10
Click, 1403, 587 Left, , Down
Sleep, 10
Click, 105, 146 Left, , Up
Sleep, 10
Click, 37, 382 Left, , Down
Sleep, 10
Click, 37, 382 Left, , Up
Sleep, 10
Click, 98, 476 Left, , Down
Sleep, 10
Click, 98, 476 Left, , Up
return

  • Double-click the .ahk file to start it executing. It will create a green "H" icon in the traybar that you can right-click and select Exit to stop. If you always want this script to execute, copy it to the user Startup folder at C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

  • While this script is running, pressing F12 will do the 8 required clicks automatically.

For more information see this AutoHotkey documentation :

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