Why are my links invisible? - Acrobat link styles not visible after export.

A bug, I’d say, and of course not in Adobe software. The fact is these link styles are very rarely used, they don’t match end users expectations of what a link looks like. Instead links use the more common conventions of underlines, coloured text, and so forth. There is no magic to show links in this style, so the style changes form part of the job of making the document. Ideally you’d use an authoring tool which both does the style changes and adds the links. Then there is zero to do in Acrobat. 

Hi,

It seems like it could be lack of a feature or a bug that hasn't been reported to Adobe yet.

I've reproduced the same scenario in my computer and had the same issue.

It seems like the feature of making it invisible to place on top of an image is always set to invisible. It doesn't matter if you uncheck this preference.

However, if you need the actual URL link to be set visible  for your PDF users,  my workaround is very simple.

You can create a text field object, type in , or copy & paste your link in it.  Set your border and colors, etc.

Then add your javascript action as normal. Lock the field so that your PDF users doen't mess around with it.

You can do the same using Edit Text & Images.

From the tool bar, select Add Image to add  an .png or .jpeg image  onto your PDF; select  Add Text to add a text floating frame in which  you can paste in or type the desired URL (that  allows your users to  see it as if it was an actual hyperlink embedded in your PDF).

the nice thing about using this method is that it resembles similar MS Word word processing text editing, by which you can arrange or align these objects in a variety of ways like, bring forward, send to back, etc front, send backward, etc.

Next, right-click on the image frame or text field  to select "Create link" and that's it!

NOTE: You can submit a feature request or report a suspected bug using this form:

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html 

The link is visible in Acrobat Reader DC and Adobe Acrobat DC.

I've also attached the example PDF, so please feel free to scrutinise my work!