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Patrick5FC2
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October 20, 2022
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Can't remove hyplerlink formatting from all hyperlinks in document

  • October 20, 2022
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My designer colleague and I are trying to export a print and a digital version of a report. 

 

For the digital version, we've included hyperlinks to the dozens of citations in the report. Obviously, in the print version, we don't want underlined blue text throughout. We can delete the links themselves in the interactive panel, but she's had to go through and change the formatting manually for each one. 

 

That seems insane. 

 

Adobe, is there no way just to export a pdf for print without hyperlinks, and in the export process just remove links and link formatting? 

 

Thankfully, this report is only 12 pages, but we may run into this problem again with much longer reports and that's a huge amount of time.

 

Help if anyone knows a workaround, or Adobe, please add this feature!

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Bill Silbert
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Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 21, 2022

Just to clarify David Creamer's suggestion about the Hyperlink character style. When you create a text Hyperlink in inDesign a character style (by default the blue color with an underline) is created and applied automatically to that Hyperlink and all others created within the document. So, as David suggests, it is actually quite easy to change the color and remove the underline globally by editing the Character Style.

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    Patrick5FC2Author
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    October 21, 2022

    I'll see if that works! 

    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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    October 21, 2022

    Why not have both underlined (for the digital version) and plain (for the print version)?

     

    We teach this nifty trick in our InDesign classes...

     

    1. Use the default Hyperlink character style for the digital PDFs and EPUBs.
      In the style, adjust the color of the text and underline, as well as the underline's position and thickness.
    2. Create a new Hyperlink-for-Print character style that resets the text to 100% black, and eliminates the underline (or sets it to  0 pts.).
    3. Export the first PDF-Interactive for the accessible, digital version.
    4. Swap the Hyperlink style with Hyperlink-for-Print style.
    5. Export the second PDF-Print to create the press version.

     

    Have attached PDF sample file below.

     

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Community Expert
    Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 20, 2022

    Can't you just edit the Hyperlink character style and leave the links alone?

     

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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