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How to disable the blue highlight boxes around links?

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April 26, 2012
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I've created a document in InDesign CS5, and when viewed on Adobe Reader 10.2 (on an iPad) all the table of contents links within the document, and all links to external websites have a blue highlight field around them. While I appreciate the fact that it makes it obvious where links are, it looks remarkably ugly to have huge blue highlights all over the document. There must be a way to turn these highlights off, right? Either from the source document within InDesign before the PDF is created, or from within Adobe Reader or Acrobat after the PDF is made? I have all the links within InDesign set to "Invisible Rectangle", and it looks great when viewed on older versions of Adobe Reader or in iBooks. Unfortunately, older versions of Adobe Reader don't support hyperlinks on tablets. So somebody using Reader 10.2, however, is now forced to view this document with ugly blue highlights. Is the only option to avoid the highlights to recommend everyone use iBooks to view the document, or is there a way in Reader 10.2 to disable these?

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Correct answer fasinfrank

This worked for me in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC:

1. Go to Tools

2. Click on Prepare Form

3. Click on More next to the hammer and wrench icon

4. Click on highlight existing fields

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Tashashash

New Participant

I spend almost an hour figuring it out so here's the solution. None of thye solution on this page helped me im using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC heres to get rid of annoying blue boxes

View--> Show/Hide--> Rulers and Grids ---> Grid.

Have a good day.

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Cecilia5E25

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I never knew you could have grids in Acrobat (shame on me, I should have known...) but this is still not the answer. The question was about highlights on form fields, and grid doesn't really have anything to do with the grid, as far as I know.

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rachel25141376eupk

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Steps are given below-

Go to Edit > Preferences.
In the Preferences window, under Categories on the left, select "Forms" from the list.
Under the Highlight Color section on the right, uncheck the box "Show border hover color for fields"
Click OK.

Regards,

Rachel Gomez

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Guy5FB2

New Participant

completely useless response. Curser needs to become pan option not blue box!

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Cheryl5D89

New Participant

I figured out how to get rid of the blue boxes! Tools>Redact>Sanitize Document> "To selectively remove hidden information Click Here>Click That.

A list will come up of what to remove, I found mine under "overlaying text" when I removed that it was gone. When I removed everything on the list, it removed things I didn't want removed such as "Initial Here, Sign Here", so just play with it and don't save it until you get it to where you want it......

fasinfrankCorrect answer

New Participant

This worked for me in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC:

1. Go to Tools

2. Click on Prepare Form

3. Click on More next to the hammer and wrench icon

4. Click on highlight existing fields

try67

Adobe Expert

This only changes how the file is shown on your computer.

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nelsong36611228

New Participant

I removed them by View --> Show/Hide --> Rulers & Grid --> Unclick Grid

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cherboo25

New Participant

There is a [+] sign on your Paragraph Styles and Character Styles. Just click it. It can be turned on and off.

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pamelas79397839

New Participant

Under "View" select "Overprint Preview" and my blue lines went away. I don't know if I were to share the doc if they would go away, but I'm happy to not see them all over my doc when working.

Hope this helps someone else!

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janetr89573057

New Participant

I have a similar problem with a fillable form created using AcrobatDC. All of the text fields on the form are covered with blue highlight. When you click on the text field, the text appears, but it gets covered up again when you go to another field. And none of the them print the text!

So the form is completely useless for sending out to users to collect information and have them send the PDF form back.

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smizy

Inspiring

This is the only method I have found that works, however rit REQUIRES Acrobat PRO DC.

Go to Tools - JavaScript - Document JavaScripts and create a new doc-level script. Remove any code that is generated by default and paste the below code:

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

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janetr89573057

New Participant

Thanks, smizy, I put that into my PDF. No blue boxes, but now the fields appear white until you click in them, and then the text appears. It disappears when you click out of the field. Looks like now I have opaque white boxes covering my fields??

Kind regards

janet

ValentinaFaussone

New Participant

To make forms invisible, but still usable/fillable in Adobe Acrobat DC (is pretty similar to Acrobat Reader):

Acrobat Pro menu > preferences > uncheck the option "Show hover border color for the fields" o change appearance changing the colors for forms (default is light blue) and compulsory forms (default is with a red border).

(see attachment: sorry, my InDesign is in Italian).

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Andy3009

New Participant

No no nooooooooooo!

Please read the comments earlier - disabling it in the YOUR preferences does not work for everyone else.
As soon as you send the pdf to someone else who hasn't disabled this particular preference then the blue box will still show.
This box is particulary annoying when sending invites out. You've probably spent a long time perfecting a very nice design thats then spoiled by having ugly blue boxes all over it.

There needs to be a file/object specific function or button that controls the appearence of interactive areas that then is shown correctly on everyones device.

try67

Adobe Expert

It's possible to set this option using a script, but it will apply to all other files opened on that computer, not just to yours, so it's not the best idea... Although you can inform the user that they should do it for the best viewing experience.

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Francisco07

New Participant

In Adobe Reader go to;

- Preferences

- Select Forms

- Under Highlight Color deselect Show border hover color for fields