Hidden artefacts appear when selecting text on PDF saved from InDesign file

Question

We have a document that was designed in InDesign. After it is saved as a PDF, when a person tries to select text, hidden rectangles all over the page appear and are highlighted, jumping back and forth from unhighlighted to highlighted. There is nothing there to be highlighted. We've made many similar documents and not had this before. We want people to be able to copy text from the PDF if needed. Currently this is impossible. Why is this happening?

Meenakshi_Negi · Answer

Hi vahidg84940412,

Thank you for reaching out.

As the issue occurs with a particular file, could you please share the file with us? Also, it would be helpful if you could share the screen recording of the process when selecting text in a PDF. It will help us understand the issue, and we can further investigate it.

Please share the Acrobat, InDesign, and OS version details. Could you share the steps you take to create a PDF from the InDesign file?

We will look into this once we have more information.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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