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Acobat 8.3 creates bounding box around hyperlink in InDesign CS2 file

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2011-09-22 14:20:32
EMSAC
Registered: Sep 22 2011
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Acobat 8.3 creates bounding box around hyperlink in InDesign CS2 file. Here is our work flow and problem:
 
1. Original article is submitted in MS Word, in which the author has embedded hyperlinks that appear appropriately in blue, underscored text. It is edited and proofread in Word. Once done, text and paragraph formatting is applied while still in Word (much faster here than in InDesign).
 
2. Word file is placed in InDesign CS2. Hyperlinks appear correctly.
 
3. Using the InDesign export function (not "print to" PDF) file is exported to Acrobat 8.3, "include hyperlinks" box is selected.
 
4. Acrobat 8 creates PDF, however it creates a hairline bounding box around all hyperlink text!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.2.6, Windows
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2011-09-22 15:30:01
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
"Hyperlink text", per se, does not exist in PDF.
In PDF a "link" is provided by the Link annotation. It is not a part of the PDF page content.
An annotations "box" defines the annotations location on the specific PDF page.
For a Link it is the means of associating the action performed by the annotation and the character string in the PDF page content.


In short, the "box" is supposed to be present.


For reference, see Section 12.5.6 of ISO 32000-1 (ISO Standard for what PDF 'is').
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf


Be well...

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2011-09-23 09:44:18
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lkassuba
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Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
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EMSAC wrote:
Acobat 8.3 creates bounding box around hyperlink in InDesign CS2 file. Here is our work flow and problem:1. Original article is submitted in MS Word, in which the author has embedded hyperlinks that appear appropriately in blue, underscored text. It is edited and proofread in Word. Once done, text and paragraph formatting is applied while still in Word (much faster here than in InDesign).

2. Word file is placed in InDesign CS2. Hyperlinks appear correctly.

3. Using the InDesign export function (not "print to" PDF) file is exported to Acrobat 8.3, "include hyperlinks" box is selected.

4. Acrobat 8 creates PDF, however it creates a hairline bounding box around all hyperlink text!
I use this same technique for many of my reports. If you don't need the bounding box around the hyperlinks for accessibility reasons then you can turn it off in InDesign. Simply select the hyperlinks in the Hyperlink panel in Adobe InDesign and then select the Hyperlink Options. Under the Appearance section simply select Invisible Rectangle.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2011-09-23 10:33:40
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Lori's clarification describes how to assure, in the authoring application, that a link annotation's bounding box can be kept invisible in the output PDF . In most cases I'd say what Lori described would be a "best practice".

An alternative is using Acrobat's Link tool's Properties to make the link appearance "invisible rectangle". Regardless, the 'bounding box' will exist.

Just a clarification re: accessible links - such would be established by the correct usage of the LINK tag in the tagged PDF's structure tree.


Be well...

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