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You could restore the contrast with GNU GIMP (it's free) or some such similar image manipulation program.

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Why would anyone have 50% of there retirement savings in a bank? Any real money I have invested in a Total Stock Market Index. (VTSAX or VTI) I have a few thousand in a bank checking just to pay bills.

But, it sounds like some people could get screwed, if any of that below comes to pass. Mikek

I have never seen a program actually increase contrast of an image; they all make the full image lighter or darker and worsen the contrast.

Just look at a screen copy of pages 3 and 4:

The wall will cost a hundred billion dollars to complete and they're ready to spend your money, take your land, whatever.

You really ought to learn how to use your image processing software. There should be options to alter contrast, colours and brightness and many will allow you to warp the midrange. Histogram equalisation will often do a dceent job with almost no user input and let you preview the result as you make changes.

Produced by rank amateurs for rank amateurs to read. Simplest way to make it more or less legible is wind up the colour saturation or flood fill the distracting background with carefully chosen parameters.

Any of GIMP, PSPro, Elements or Photoshop should easily do it. The other alternative is convert to a fixed pallette image and manually alter the entries for the text to brilliant red, green and yellow.

• What i use for "image processing software" is Paraben Screen Capture or CorelDraw. Just LOOK at page 3 or 4 (page 4 is worst); Black on black just do not cut the mustard.

Just TRY that on page 3 or page 4..

Separate to R G B colour planes then. But if it is a website download the damn thing as HTML and kill the background image.

Apart from the JPEG artefacts and the word "all" which is closely matched to the background grey it gets the rest pretty well.

It is a website designed by clueless muppets for other clueless muppets.

• CANNOT be done; it is a PDF behind a conditional paywall.

• Yew cann sey that agin!