My understanding is that most printers will ignore any white in a document but the actual code for the white text or white image is sent. So yeah PDF would contain white text.
After all some printers are going to be printing on non-white materials and so do have white ink, so they need that information sent over, and the PDF doesn’t know what type of printer it’s going to ahead of time.
It depends on what method it is turned into a PDF, because PDF is a horrendous mess of a standard.
It is my understanding that PDF can contain anything from PostScript-like markup of text and page elements, to a raster image, depending on how it was generated. It is possible to preserve white-on-white text through a PDF export, if it is configured right.
Wouldn’t that text just disappear when you turn it into a pdf?
No. Why would it?
Depends on how you do it I suppose. If you use the print to pdf dialog f.ex. it would.
My understanding is that most printers will ignore any white in a document but the actual code for the white text or white image is sent. So yeah PDF would contain white text.
After all some printers are going to be printing on non-white materials and so do have white ink, so they need that information sent over, and the PDF doesn’t know what type of printer it’s going to ahead of time.
It depends on what method it is turned into a PDF, because PDF is a horrendous mess of a standard.
It is my understanding that PDF can contain anything from PostScript-like markup of text and page elements, to a raster image, depending on how it was generated. It is possible to preserve white-on-white text through a PDF export, if it is configured right.