Removing certain links from acrobat

[V.Sunil]

Hi,

I tried to remove certain links from my pdf document. I did removed the link box around the text url.

After that when you hover your mouse over, the link is no longer active. So far so good.

But when I open the pdf document on Reader, the link is still active. How do I get rid of this?

Any other way of doing this?

Please do note that I still need some links to remain active in the document.

Hope to get a solution here asap.

Thank You!

Regards,

Sunil

[try67]

Is there a plain-text URL on the page? Acrobat (and Reader) has a setting that adds an ad-hoc link over such texts, and you can't disable it from within your file. It's a setting of the application itself.

[V.Sunil]

Hi,

Yes. Its a plain-text url.

So, there's no solution to this?

[try67]

No, sorry.

[Test Screen Name]

Reader does this, and so do many other PDF viewers, such as Chrome's PDF viewer. They all try to help the user by making live links from URL-like text found in the PDF. Most other viewers have no option to turn this off.

[V.Sunil]

Oh dear....the only way to resolve this is to completly remove the text link from the file.

But the thing is these are archived pdf files. I would need to retain these outdated links in the pdf yet make it not active.

Its' really a shame acrobat can't seem to come around this issue.

[Test Screen Name]

How could Acrobat help with this, since most PDF files are now viewed with non-Adobe software?? Acrobat really does remove links when you request them, it does not secretly leave them behind.

[V.Sunil]

These links are now outdated. And so I need to remove the links to make it inactive. All these files are being uploaded on my office website. Every month, we receive a web broken link report.

So, now it highlights all these outdated links in its report. That's why I need to remove them. Having many broken links on your website is not a good thing for Google.

[try67]

Google will not recognize the links, as they don't actually exist. What it will recognize are the URLs. That's what you need to fix, or remove entirely.

[try67]

Why do you care if those links exist?

[V.Sunil]

My above reply answers your qusetion.

[Test Screen Name]

Well, you know the situation. Google is not looking at links, if you have removed them. It is looking at URLs. You want a file on the web with outdated URLs? Then you will have a Google report. Accept it, or change something.