Hide text in prints, but not in PDF

[Zeror_rk]

I'm trying to do something in InDesign, but i can't figure it out how.

I want to hide text in prints, but i do want them to show up in my interactive PDF.

How can i do that?

I tried to put te text on a layer with print disabled, but then it won't show up on the PDF either.

[Geоrge · Accepted solution]

You're need to open layers panel in Acrobat and do this -

[Lukas Engqvist]

If you want to control it from InDesign (you may have a document that keeps changing) and you don't find it practical to fix in Acrobat you could convert the non printing text to a button and uncheck printable.

This does require you to export as interactive PDF, if you export as Print PDF interactive objects will not be included.

[Zeror_rk]

@ Lukas:

I tried this.

This doesn't do what i want. Checking this off, means it won't show up in PDF either.

Checking this on will show it on both prints and PDF.

[BobLevine]

With all the time you've wasted you could have easily created two files.

[Zeror_rk]

@ BobLevine,

I have two files actually, but i wanted to try to merge them into one.

[Lukas Engqvist]

If you export PDF (interactive) you will get it

If you export as PDF (print) it will not contain interactive elements, so it will not be available.

[BobLevine]

You would need to deselect the appearance of interactive elements in the export. Easy to miss.

[BobLevine]

Why not create two files?

[Zeror_rk]

I haven't found another solution yet, so i am going with George_Salniks solution to do it with Acrobat instead.