Remove yellow boxes in PDF

[FrenkDrabin]

Hello,

we use this wonderful viewer to view electronic schematics of the tool Altium Designer. They added a feature where a popup windows appears if I click on an area. Unfortunately this area is framed by an yellow border which is quite annoying if you have 30 of them on one page. Acrobat does not show this.

Is there a way to disable those frames?


P.s.:Dammed forum does not accept jpg, bmp, txt nor exe. What shall the upload be good for?

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi FrenkDrabin,

thanks for the post. Please use a zip file to upload both the image and the original PDF and we'll take a look.

regards

[rubliexpress]

Hello Paul

I have the same problem.
I searched in the program settings but have no setting item found.

Have you a solution to hide the yellow borders?

regards
rubliexpress

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi rubliexpress,

Thanks for the post - could you please upload a sample PDF that displays this, as well as a screen-shot of what you're seeing?

Cheers,

[rubliexpress]

Hello Will

here are the files.

thanks for the support.
rubliexpress

[Willy Van Nuffel]

For me, it seems to be related with the "Link Tool" (View > Toolbars > Link Editor Toolbar).

When the Link Editor Toolbar is checked, you will see somewhere a little toolbar with two blue icons.
The first of these two is the "Rectangle Link Tool".

When you click this icon, you will see that there will appear boxes at the places where you see the yellow borders.
By maintaining the CTRL-key you can draw a box around these objects to select them.

Unfortunately, you will not see that they are selected, but when you do a right mouseclick onto one of the objects, you will have a shortcut menu in which you can click "Properties". Set the "Border Width" to "0" and click OK.

When you now click the "Select Tool" icon (or another icon) in the Standard Toolbar, you will see that the yellow-colored boxes are not shown anymore.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the help Willy Van Nuffel,

A faster way to remove the link borders for the whole file is to open the JS console (Ctrl-J) and execute the following code:

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for ( var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
  var b = this.getPageBox("Crop", p);
  var l = this.getLinks(p, b);
  for (var i = 0; i<l.length; i++)
  {
    l[i].borderWidth=0;
  }
}

Regards,
Stefan

[rubliexpress]

Hello Stefan and Willy

thanks for your support. It works both..

but i 'm searching about a global setting to view/hide/edit this borders.

I do not wat to open every generated file to insert a javascript code.
If i open the document in an other program (like the adobe pdf viewer or the firefox) the boxex are not avaible.

Is there any option to handle this?

thanks
rubliexpress

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello rubliexpress,

I just checked the file - those borders are not visible at my end. The Width of the border is correctly recognized as 0pt width, and not shown in both the Editor (Build 311) and the Viewer (214.2), so can you please check which build you are using?

Regards,
Stefan

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Myself, I also have to say that the borders were NOT visible when I opened the sample PDF.
I could only 'reproduce' the problem by changing the border width to "2".

I would like to ask rubliexpress, if at his side, when he sees the borders and then verifies the width:
does they have the value "2" or is "0" ?

If it is "0" and you see the yellow borders, then it is really strange.
And if you say "it works", then do you change the value from "2" to "0", or from "0" to "0" ?

At my knowledge there is no option to whether show or not show these borders.
If the width is not "0", then they are visible.

Regards.

[Patrick-Tracker Supp]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for posting, Willy.

FrenkDrabin; Do please make sure you are running the latest version of the Editor.

You can install if from here: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFXVE5.zip

Please note that you may need to upgrade your serial key, please see the following KB about upgrading your serial key: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowled ... rade-Guide

I hope this helps!

[rubliexpress]

Hi

I'm using Viewer V2.5 (Build 192.0).

@Willy
I see a thickness of 1px.
When i going to the setings of the link --> the thickness is set to 1px.
in the pdf - file themself (opened by a texteditor) the border is not set (see code)

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/Border []

May an update to the current version will solve the problem.

regards
rubliexpress

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello rubliexpress,

An update to build 214.2 of the Viewer or ideally to the new Editor will resolve this problem. The build you have is rather old and we won't be able to fix anything in it anyway - so an update is needed.

Regards,
Stefan