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williamb1072578
williamb1072578
Participant
April 24, 2018
Question

Help with layers during export and printing

  • April 24, 2018
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Hi Experts,

My document is going to be used online more often than not so I created a TOC for ease of movement through the document. However, there may be a time when someone wants to kill a tree and print it. Is there a way to have my hyperlinks show up in the exported document but not print? I tried layering the "Back To TOC" and clicking "nonprint" but it is either there in the PDF or not. If it is there, it prints. HELP Please!

Thanks

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Luke Jennings
Luke Jennings
Inspiring
May 17, 2018

Move any elements you want to be visible but not print onto a separate InDesign layer and be sure to create Acrobat layers when exporting to PDF. In Acrobat, click on the layers icon (looks like a stack of pancakes) if you don't see the icon, go to View> Show/Hide> Navigation Panes> Layers. Right click on the target layer to select it and go to Layer Properties, change it to Visibility: on, Print: Never.

Srishti_Bali
Srishti_Bali
Legend
May 17, 2018

Hi William,

As per your query, you want to restrict document to print? This can not be done directly in InDesign but could be done in Acrobat.

Acrobat

Open Docuemnt> File> Properties > Security > Security Method > Password Security > Permissions

Enable the option "Restrict editing and printing of the document. A password will be required in order to change these permission settings " and choose "None" in Printing options.

This will restrict printing in Acrobat and Adobe Reader. It could be compromised if the document is opened in some third party reader.

For more clarification, I moving this thread to Printing & Prepress

Regards,

Srishti

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