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me eva
me eva
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April 16, 2026
Question

I want to disable liquid mode for anyone opening a certain pdf on a mobile device.

  • April 16, 2026
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I want to be able to disable liquid mode for ANYONE opening a certain PDF I created. 

Liquid mode messes up the structure, adds additional whitespaces (for example, every time the character sequence ‘ti’ appears in the document, it puts a whitespace, making the document unreadable. It also removes background images that are essential to my document, and omits entire sections.

It’s not enough to disable the ‘feature’ on my end, since another user might still open it in this mode, without realising that the document was screwed up by Acrobat reader. I have some important documents to send out, and spent time on their layout and can’t afford the user potentially receiving a pile of garbage. 

Please help with this urgent issue. The files are created in Adobe InDesign, but I tried sending them through a number of other PDF creation tools, the issue persists. 

    2 replies

    jane-e
    Community Expert
    jane-eCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 17, 2026

    ​@me eva 

     

    In addition, it’s intentional that Acrobat and Reader cannot control the user’s experience. Users need to do that for themselves.

     

    Jane

     

     

    Amal Jaiswal
    Community Manager
    Amal JaiswalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 16, 2026

    Hi there,

     

    Hope you are doing well and thank you for reaching out, I understand your concern here and we are sorry for the trouble. 

     

    Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader Mobile cannot be disabled by the PDF creator for other users. It is a viewer-controlled feature, and anyone opening the PDF in the Adobe Acrobat Reader app can choose to enable or disable Liquid Mode on their own device.

     

    There isn’t a built-in setting in Adobe InDesign or other PDF tools that can force Liquid Mode off for recipients.

     

    Liquid Mode is designed to improve readability on small screens, but it may not work well with complex layouts, custom fonts, or design-heavy documents—which sounds like your case.

     

    Hope this information will help.

     

    ~Amal

     

     

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