Distiller not Removing Hyperlinks

[Jade88]

Hi All

I have been trying to use distiller to remove hyperlinks, but it is not working. Is there a particular setting I need turned on/off?

Thanks!

[Test Screen Name]

‌Distilling will remove hyperlinks, it is impossible to do anything else. I suspect you have automatic hyperlinks from URLs in the text; nothing to remove.

[Jade88]

Hi

I have things such as www.google.com and email addresses in the document. These need to be completely un-clickable but it seems no matter what I do they are generated again and again. Is there any way at all to completely remove the ability to click on them?

Thanks!

[Dave Merchant]

You cannot prevent the client software (Acrobat Reader etc) from automatically adding links whenever there's a valid URL or email address in the text - it's a user-controllable option and the document cannot override it. All you can do is change the text so it looks OK but it's no longer a valid pattern, for example by adding hair-width spaces either side of the dots and @ symbols.