How to avoid auto generated hyperlink in interactivePDF ?

[Aya0883]

Hi, my document contains URLs as plain texts. I need to export it in interactive PDF.
Then all plain text URLs are hyperlinked. How to remove this?

What I tried are
- insert "hair space" before and after www. and http:

- Zero-Width-Space for www. and org.  (I found the same topic here, but did not work : https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/remove-auto-generated-hyperlink-in-interactivepd...)

- Styled with `` (ex. www.instagram.com to `www.instagram.com`)

- non break character for a URL

My documents contains hyperlinked URLs too, therefore removing all hyperlinks doesn't work in this case.
I had a look hyperlink panel also, but there is no link in InDesign. Only when it is exported in interactive PDF.
Thank you in advance 🙂

[BobLevine]

Have you tried exporting as a print PDF? Honestly, there is not much you can do if you've tried the rest of that stuff. It's not an InDesign thing so much as a PDF reader thing.

And there are too many PDF readers with too many user preferences to even spend too much time trying to do much about it.

[Aya0883]

Thank you for your response. I got that it is not about InDesign.
I need this document as digital format.
So in the end I insert small dot same colour as the background. It looks fine:)

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Aya0883

Most PDF readers automatically recognise and convert plain-text URLs into clickable links.

Outlining should work - as long as PDF viewer won't do OCR 😉 

[Aya0883 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your response. 
in the end I insert small dot same colour as the background. It looks fine:)