Need help making PDF links inactive

[Ruth Dwight]

Hello

I have a book that has many url's but the author does not want them to be active. I export the PDF as Press Quality and leave the Hyperlinks box unchecked, but the url's keep appearing as active links.

Can anyone please help. I'm using the most up-to-date versions of InDesign and Acrobat for Mac

Thanks in advance

Ruth

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Select the Edit Tools panel (on the right side of the screen).

Then, from the top  menu, select Remove web links.

Remove Hyperlinked URLs.

[try67]

Plain-text URLs can be automatically converted to clickable links by the application. This is not something you can control in your file.

[Luke Jennings3]

You can select the link and convert the text to outlines (or just the "https://" portion of the text), this will make the link invisible to pdf viewers that automatically find web addresses.

Outlining type is not an ideal solution for many reasons, so make a copy of your file first.

Actually, here's a better idea:

add a space between the two slashes, and adjust the vertical size to match the original spacing.

You can do a search & replace to the entire document.