On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:26:25AM +0200, Tim Wiederhake wrote: > The problem is still there. As requested, I've attached a sample pdf > file and below you will find information about installed evince and > poppler versions.
I'm still not able to reproduce this. Whenever I select text in evince I get the normal blue highlite and white text like any other gnome application. Most of what I see on the google about black highliting mentions the gnome theme. So make sure you have gnome-themes-standard installed and use gnome-tweak-tool to set the theme to Adwaita.