Yes, you can. Searching requires that the content be alphanumeric characters. If you want to have a portion of a document unsearchable, instead of using the text on the page, capture an image of the page and use that in its place. To the viewer it looks the same. To Acrobat, it is recognized as an image.
If you want to capture it in Acrobat, use the Snapshot tool.
donna.
A prolific author and writer of many Acrobat books, as well as books on graphic and Web design software.
Donna lives on a lakeshore in central Canada, where all manner of wildlife from muskrats to coyotes come to call.
Okay, here’s the problem: We use MS Word and Adobe FrameMaker to generate user documentation (PDF, print, help, etc.) for a multitude of products. The standard trademarks page is a shared file that lists all of the trademarks in use across our global products. This is great for consistency, but it makes an online search for a specific product a nightmare because the search will return every PDF file that contains the trademarks page – not just the book(s) someone specifically searched for.
I have tried creating a graphic (with Adobe Illustrator) of the trademark page – AI, WMF, TIF, EPS – and inserting that in the Frame or Word document and generating PDFs, but the Acrobat search feature still finds trademarks that are in the graphic!
Any other graphic format looks either too fuzzy or broken up when the document is printed or viewed on-screen.
Does anyone have any ideas how this can be accomplished? I just need two pages in the PDF file to be non-searchable.
Yes, you can. Searching requires that the content be alphanumeric characters. If you want to have a portion of a document unsearchable, instead of using the text on the page, capture an image of the page and use that in its place. To the viewer it looks the same. To Acrobat, it is recognized as an image.
If you want to capture it in Acrobat, use the Snapshot tool.
donna.
A prolific author and writer of many Acrobat books, as well as books on graphic and Web design software.
Donna lives on a lakeshore in central Canada, where all manner of wildlife from muskrats to coyotes come to call.