Hello
I'm trying to flatten a PDF document and preserve its many internal and external hyperlinks.
Reading through this forum, it looks like it's possible to do with Acrobat, in this discussion, for instance :
The method seems to be:
"You need to use this code:
this.flattenPages({nNonPrint: 1});"
However, I have no idea where to insert this code in Acrobat?
Would love to get some help with this. Thank you.
And here's the behavior I'm looking for and that I somehow achieved yesterday, but on only one page (see GIF below):
Although I attempt to drag my mouth over the text to select it, I get nothing. The text is unselectable. My cursor turns into a hand icon and I can only move the page up and down. And all the while, the hyperlink is still valid and active.
This is what I'd like to achieve for the entire document.
Your video can't be from an Adobe application. You probably used a third-party application that does not respect the security policy.
The way to achieve what you described is to outline the text, which basically converts it into an image. There's a built-in command in the Preflight tool that allows you to do that. Attached is the result.
This is considered very inconsiderate for the user, though, as it completely disables the option to search the file, for example.
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