How to highlight my hyperlinks?

[rubenper]

I have a pdf file with many hyperlinks, all of them work well when clicking on them, also the hand icon appears when hovering on them, but they are not highlighted so users do not notice them.

I can highlight them one by one right-clicking on them > Edit Link > Link Type == Visible rectangle & Color == blue but this is not efficient.

Example:

In the following text the red-underlined text are hyperlinks and work well, the 1st one is intuitive because it has url nomenclature, but the 2nd one is not noticeable:

I am looking for a way to highlight all my hyperlinks automatically.

I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. 

PDF Version: 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x)

[Test Screen Name]

Highlight in the original document. Too late once it’s a PDF. 

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can use this code to edit all the links in the file in this way:

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	var box = this.getPageBox("Crop", p);
	var links = this.getLinks(p, box);
	if (links==null || links.length==0) continue;
	for (var i in links) {
		links[i].borderColor = color.blue;
		links[i].borderWidth = 1;
	}
}

And since you have Acrobat Pro you can even use it in an Action to process all the links in multiple files in a single process.

PS. You should post your questions in the Acrobat forum in the future...

[rubenper]

this worked great, thanks

[lizmcnally]

But this puts a border on it - what's the code to make it highlight on hover?

[try67]

That's not possible with a link. You will need to use a button for that, and then you could change its appearance using the Mouse Enter and Mouse Exit functions to highlight it when you hover with the mouse cursor over it.

[Behnam5FDE]

Thanks, but can you please say how to run this code?

[try67]

Press Ctrl+J, paste the code into the console window, select all of it and press Ctrl+Enter/

[JRDesign2005]

Hi Behnam. This worked for me. Thanks. Now how do I turn off the highlighting. I can't seem to delete the script from the document. 

[Tspike7]

Thank you for writing this, I use your code rather regularly as I am checking pdf's that come from my technical writers. I'm just glad I dont have to use FrameMaker. I recently found an external link (website) that does not highlight after running the code. Do you know of another way to highlight external links as well? And/or, should that code already have highlighted my external links?