Changing hypertext link color

Question

I have a pdf document created with iThoughtX for Mac with many hyperlink text links inside it.

Even if in the application in which I created it the links are displayed with a light blue color, when I open the pdf in Acrobat (or in another software that reads pdf files) all the links are displayed a dark blue, which I think it is the default color of pdf files. If I edit the pdf in Acrobat I see that I can select one link at a time and change its color. Is it possible to change the color of the links in the whole pdf file with a single action (in practice without having to change them one at a time)? Or is there a function that changes the default color of hyperlinks?

Thanks!

try67 · Answer

There's no default color for hyperlinks in a PDF because there's no such thing as a hyperlink in a PDF. What you usually have is regular static text (which can be in any color) with a transparent Link or Button object on top of it that does the actual action of opening a URL when clicked. In some cases you can have a Button field with text in it, in which case the color of that text is a property of the field object. There's also a setting in Acrobat (and Reader) to automatically create links from plain-text URLs, but that doesn't affect the way the underlying text appears at all, it just creates a transparent clickable area around it.

So the solution to this issue is most likely in the application used to create the original file, and/or in the conversion settings to PDF.

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