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Mona Howell
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September 7, 2016
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PDF shows grey area behind interactive section in some readers

  • September 7, 2016
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I have created PDFs of brochures for a client, and in each one I linked the area of the logo to their website. On my screen it looks terrific, the curser just changes to a hand on hover to indicate that it is a link. On the client's screen however, the logo has a transparent purplish-grey area over it.

I cannot fix it because I cannot duplicate the problem. Has anyone else had this come up? If so, what is the fix? I suspect it's a browser thing, judging from the screen capture he sent. If you have any work-arounds for this situation I would be so grateful!

Thanks to everyone in advance,

Mona

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Correct answer try67

Yeah, it sounds like a viewer specific issue. If that's the case there's probably nothing you can do about it.

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Inspiring
September 7, 2016

Also, do you know what browser was used?

Mona Howell
Known Participant
September 7, 2016

Yes, I did use the link tool in Acrobat Pro and as it turns out, the purplish-grey area showed up in Chrome. It was invisible in Internet Explorer. Go figure. So Chrome must add it's own "indicator" that something is a link. Kind of ugly though.

Inspiring
September 8, 2016

That's strange, I don't see the same thing. It doesn't even display link borders for me when visible ones are used, so it's sort of the opposed if what you've described.

Inspiring
September 7, 2016

Did you use the Link tool in Acrobat to create the link, or something else?

try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 7, 2016

Yeah, it sounds like a viewer specific issue. If that's the case there's probably nothing you can do about it.