[Tex/LaTex] change pdf standard background color

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How is it possible to change the acrobat's background color when someone opens my pdf?

My pdf is produced by XeTeX (using hyperref package).

Take a look of the following picture of two different pdfs. The one on the right (with the "abstract") uses a non-standard background color, while the one on the left doesn't.

EDIT: My question is NOT about changing the background color of pages. It is about changing the standard background color of acrobat reader when someone opens my document (compare grey on the left to light blue on the right)

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Given Adobe's appalling record as a proxy for malware, I'd suggest switching your PDF viewer.

Should you decide to do this, and move to PDF XChange Viewer from Tracker Software, then in the preferences dialogue, on the Customize[sic] UI tab, you can select the background colour you want, with or without a gradient (God forbid!).

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The following lines were added to the preamble:

\RequirePackage[xcolornames,svgnames,dvipsnames,rgb]{xcolor}
\pdfpageattr {/Group << /S /Transparency /I true /CS /DeviceRGB>>}

This seems to have resolved the problem.

[Tex/LaTex] Pre-defined color cycles à la RColorBrewer

This is an edit of Stefan Pinnow:

Jake is referring to a non-PGFPlots/external colorbrewer library of (I guess LoopSpace). For the PGFPlots/internal colorbrewer library please have a look at my answer.

There is now a PGFPlots library colorbrewer that creates cycle lists using the colorbrewer color schemes. The color values are taken from the ColorBrewer Excel file.

To set a colorbrewer cycle list, you call colorbrewer cycle list=<scheme>, which will define the necessary colors (colorbrewer1 to colorbrewer8) and create a cycle list called colorbrewer.

The number of colors and plot styles that are defined can be set using the key colorbrewer values=<number>.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}   
\usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
    colorbrewer cycle list=Dark2
]
\addplot {rnd};
\addplot {rnd-1};
\addplot {rnd-2};
\addplot {rnd-3};
\addplot {rnd-4};
\addplot {rnd-5};
\addplot {rnd-6};
\addplot {rnd-7};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Here's an overview of the color schemes:

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