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BNeff
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April 11, 2016
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In Acrobat, Is there a way to globablly change the Properties > Highlight Style? I can do each page manually but it is very tedious for a long PDF.?

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In Acrobat, Is there a way to globally change the Properties > Highlight Style?  I can do each page manually but it is very tedious for a long PDF.

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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April 11, 2016

Highlight style of what, exactly? And by globally do you mean for all files, or for all the instances of whatever you're talking about in one specific file?

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BNeffAuthor
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April 11, 2016

Thanks for responding!

Here is what I am doing:

Creating an interactive Keynote

Then exporting it to PDF

But all the links are "invert" which is really ugly, so

I open the PDF in Acrobat

I open the Tools Panel and click "Select Object"

Then on page 1, I do an Apple-A which selects all the links.

Then right click any one of them

Choose Properties

Change the Highlight Style from "invert" to " none

Go to page 2, repeat, page 3 repeat, etc.

Save the PDF

Open in PDF reader and now the interactiveness is nice and clean.

But doing this page-by-page is very tedious and I have been searching

for a way to change the HighLight Style globally for the entire document.

So far I have had no luck.

You are my last hope - Obi-Wan.

Brian

try67
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try67Community Expert
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April 11, 2016

OK, that's more clear. And yes, it can be done, using a script. Namely, this script:

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {


    var box = this.getPageBox("Crop", p);


    var links = this.getLinks(p, box);


    if (links==null || links.length==0) continue;


    for (var i in links) {


        links.highlightMode = "None";


    }


}

If you have Acrobat Pro you can place it in an Action and run it on your file(s), or you can execute it from the JS Console on the currently open file.

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