When I hover my pointer on top of a page this annoying box pops up and show me the ‘summary’ of the page, how do I get rid of it?
I have already turned off the ‘Generative AI’ preference, and it was no use.
OMFG I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT!!!
My original document was created in InDesign, then exported to PDF. I went back to the original and I turned off generative AI for InDesign, and rebooted, but it still kept showing generative AI Alt-text descriptions for my images, which then propagated to the PDF I exported. Turned off Generative AI in Acrobat but it did nothing to remove the alt-text.
So I went back to InDesign and I poked through alllllll the menus trying to locate whatever was still forcing the AI descriptions on me and this is what I found:
There’s a “T” in a circle at the bottom of each image. If you Alt-click that circled T, the alt-text dialog pops up. And there it is: the AI-generated description that’s STILL THERE EVEN THOUGH I TURNED OFF GENERATIVE AI. You can delete it, or add your own text, whatever. Then click Done. That removes the AI text.
But here’s the thing, I can’t find a way to do a global erase of the AI generated alt-text. You have to do it for EVERY IMAGE IN YOUR DOCUMENT.
One at a time.
For, in my case, HUNDREDS OF IMAGES. (This is how I’m going to be spending the rest of my day.)
Then, save and export the cleaned document to PDF and the popups are finally gone.
Thanks, SO MUCH, Adobe, for adding this super useful time-suck “feature” to my workflow.
And for being SO HELPFUL in figuring out a solution in a timely manner.
It would have been a terrible user experience if I had to poke around in your product, which I’m paying for, and figure it out for myself when I was supposed to be getting MY OWN WORK DONE.
Yay. Good times.
In case your AI doesn’t catch my tone, that’s sarcasm. It was not, in fact, good times. 😒
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