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I have a business card from a client with live editable fields. How do I get rid of those?

May 2, 2012 2:08 PM

A guy came in the other day to have us print some busness cards.

 

He's a rep for some company so the company has the front and back PDF printable files online. The backside of the business card... that PDF has editable fields that the rep can add his info to personalize. So we did that and I sent the files to our print broker. The job is on hold because those fields are still editable and it's throwing off flags in their pre-press department.

 

I tried dropping that PDF into InDesign and exporting a PDF from there but the resulting PDF will still allow you to click on the web or email and take you to a browser or email app and that's what the guy in their pre-press department said was a "problem". Any way to shed that stuff so it's not a link in the PDF?

1127 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: printisnotdead, Jun 15, 2012 6:55 PM
 
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  • Peter Spier
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    1. Peter Spier,
    May 2, 2012 2:16 PM   in reply to TwitchOSX
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    Export to PDF (Print) and uncheck the Hyperlinks and interactive checkboxes.

     

    By default Acrobat and Reader will treat things that look like URLs as hyperlinks when you view the PDF, but they shouldn't throw any flags.

     
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  • TwitchOSX
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    2. TwitchOSX,
    May 2, 2012 2:41 PM   in reply to Peter Spier
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    Yea... I don't think it actually threw flags... but when I called tech support to find out, he just had notes from a guy in pre-press saying "when I click on the link on the back of the business card, it takes me to the website".... which is stupid to even be doing stuff like that, but I can't argue with a phone tech person who knows nothing so I'm trying to just get rid of it so I can re-submit. Thanks for the info though.

     
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  • TwitchOSX
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    3. TwitchOSX,
    May 2, 2012 2:46 PM   in reply to Peter Spier
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    Hmm... just checked and my preset for sending PDF files out doesn't have any of that stuff checked. Down under "Include" on the general area of Export Adobe PDF, neither Hyperlinks or Interactive Elements are checked. I saved the PDF and the link is still clickable in Acrobat. Looks like ANY url will be clickable on a PDF. I wonder why their pre-press is freaking out about this.

     
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  • Peter Spier
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    4. Peter Spier,
    May 2, 2012 3:06 PM   in reply to TwitchOSX
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    I wonder the same thing. First of all, it's a non-issue as far as I know, for a print workflow, and second, he should reset his prefernces so the links aren't made automatically in Acrobat.

     
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  • lilia@
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    5. lilia@,
    May 2, 2012 3:50 PM   in reply to TwitchOSX
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    You could flatten the pdf... so the fields are no longer editable.

    http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

     
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    6. Larry G. Schneider,
    May 2, 2012 5:47 PM   in reply to lilia@
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    It can be the way the way that Acrobat is setup. In the General Preferences tab for Acrobat is a checkbox which if checked will automatically make a URL a clickable link.

     

    Screen shot 2012-05-02 at 5.44.19 PM.png

     
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  • printisnotdead
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    7. printisnotdead,
    Jun 15, 2012 6:55 PM   in reply to TwitchOSX
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    You might need to flatten it. But the image shown by Larry seems to solve the problem. What did you do to solve it?

     
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