DISABLE THE AUTOMATIC LINK OF A PDF EMAIL

[Gonzalo5EDB]

when I create a pdf in illustrator or indesign, the adobe acrobat program recognizes the mail and creates a link to the inbox.

How do I disable this function? since I don't want the email text to take me to any url.

ALL THIS HAPPENS WITHOUT HAVING CREATED LINKS IN THE PDF

I have tried tracing the text but it still detects them.

[BarlaeDC]

Hi,

There is a setting in Acrobat which auto detects URLs and makes them clickable:

Preferences->General->Create Links from URLs

If you make sure this is unchecked then it wont show the link, however this is a user controlled setting so it would be up to each user of your PDF to switch it off

The other option would be to make your text into an image so that it is not text, therefore Acrobat wont recognise it as a URL.

Hope this helps

Malcolm

[Gonzalo5EDB]

Thanks a lot! it worked. This apparently happens with the most updated versions since that did not happen to me before when exporting to pdf.

[Gonzalo5EDB]

Is this for an update? because before it didn't happen to me.

[DesignerCarolee]

I know this is from 2020, but I thought you might like my fix because it's so easy, or maybe it can help someone else. When I type the email address, I put a space before and after the @. Then I give those spaces a Horizontal Scale of 10% so that the space does not show. The spaces should prevent Acrobat from recognizing the address as an address and creating a link.