How to change all links' appearance in "Highlight Style"

[PedroSaraiva]

Hi!

After I converted my Master's dissertation to PDF all links are working fine. However, while I'm pressing the linked word/field there's a black rectangle that appears... I know how to disable it one by one, but that's not an easy job when you have a document with thousands of links... 😅

Is there a away of selecting them all and change their appearance to "None" (in the "Highlight Style" field)?

Thanks,

Pedro

[Amal. · Accepted solution]

Hi @PedroSaraiva 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

Please go through the correct anwer marked in the similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-do-i-batch-edit-links-in-a-pdf-need-to-update... and see if that works.

For more information about editing the link appearance, please checkout the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs.html

Regards

Amal

[PedroSaraiva]

Thanks @Amal.

I'll check them out.

Btw, do you know if it's possible to highlight a specific reference after clicking the link to it?

For example:

I've a lot of bibliographical references in my document. It would be helpful if readers after clicking a link they're not only redirected to that reference's page, but could also have that specific reference temporarily highlighted among all others on the same page.

Pedro

[Amal.]

Hi there,

The workflow you are trying to achieve is might be possible using JavaScript. For more information, please check the help pages listed below:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scripts-pdfs.html

Hope it will help

Regards
Amal

[PedroSaraiva]

@Amal. Thanks!

I'll check them out.

Regards,

Pedro