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November 24, 2008
TIP: Editing PDF documents with hyperlinks
A customer recently asked me "I tried editing a sentence in a PDF document which had a hyperlink. I used the TouchUp Text tool to delete the sentence. However, I was left with a blue line which I could not eliminate. I used every tool on the drop down menu incl the Link tool but to no avail. Can you tell me what I can do?"
And my answer: "Links are “on top” of the PDF page, and often the original application will generate the text as well as a link (in your case a blue line) the PDF document. You’ll need to use the TouchUp Object Tool to delete the line as it is an object vs. text. The TouchUp Object tool is in the Advanced Editing toolbar (Acrobat 8 Professional or Acrobat 9 Pro/Pro Extended)
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I have been searching through dozens of pages trying to figure this out. I needed to change 4 letters of a URL (in a 500 page PDF) that shouldn't have been a URL in the first place. And I wasn't about to try and convert the source document to PDF again.
Thank you for this tip.