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October 16, 2022
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Hyperlinked photos, text boxes and text behave unexpectedly when clicked

  • October 16, 2022
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My Word document has a text box, text and images which have hyperlinks associated with them which take the reader to another section of the document. This works perfectly in Word. Color changes on mouse over, and after being used, etc., are disabled. Underlines are removed. One just clicks on the word and the jump takes place.

 

However, after converting it using Acrobat, when clicking on the linked objects, there are some anomalies.

 

1. For text, a heavy black box around the word used when it is clicked. I didn't ask it to do this. 🙂

2. For images, the colors seem to reverse essentially when clicked. What a disruptive mess!

3. And for text boxes, the entire box turns black, sort of like (1). Just as bad. 

 

In Word, none of these phenomena occur. Any ideas? These unexpected visual anomalies ruin the design language, etc.

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Correct answer radzmar

Well, the PDF uses just the defaults for highting hyperlinks when clicking them. You can change this by opening the form tools in Acrobat and setting the style for each hyperlink in its properties.

 

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radzmar
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October 16, 2022

Well, the PDF uses just the defaults for highting hyperlinks when clicking them. You can change this by opening the form tools in Acrobat and setting the style for each hyperlink in its properties.

 

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October 17, 2022

Hi! Thanks for the inputs, which sound promising. When I convert from Word, I'm using Acrobat Pro (just got a license) but I can't at the moment find the hyperlink style applet you are showing. Any guidance would be appreciated. 🙂

 

BTW when viewing the PDF on a Samsung Android device, using Acrobat Reader, the presentation is exactly as desired. No flashing color changes or annoying black boxes. But in Acrobat Reader on Windows, the undesired visual effects are there. 

 

So once I find the tools for controlling the appearance of the links, 

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October 17, 2022

So I eventually figured out the chain of commands required to get to the Link Properties menu, and now the hyperlinks are behaving as expected visually. Apparently this has to be done separately for each link... Would be nice if the settings could be set globally... that's probably available, somewhere. 🙂

 

Many thanks!