Removing The Ability To Click Text on a PDF Form

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Hello all,I've have been scratching my brain for several days on how to solve this issue. I was unable to find answers to the issue myself so I'm seeking some help!I have acrobat Pro DC and have created a fill-able pdf form. My base layer has lines and text that some of the field boxes go over.The issue I'm having is sometimes when I go to click a fill-able field it selects the nearby text instead and puts my cursor there. I am looking for a way to make my text non clickable so that only my fields can be selected. Any help would be great as this is holding up my project!

try67 · Accepted Answer

This is exactly what I'm referring too. I gave a try at doing this a while ago but wasn't sure if it was best practice or how to convert layers into images like that. Do you have a reference on how to do this?

To convert the pages to images go to File - Save As Other - Images and then select something like PNG.

After you created the image files go to File - Create - Combine files into a single PDF and select them.

After you created your new file you can secure it (via File - Properties - Security) to prevent it from being OCRed.

grege76139524 · Answer

Hi,If you protect the document only the forms will be editable.Hope this is the answer you were looking for.Greg

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