yellow boxes around text

[Anonymous]

When I make a PDF there are yellow boxes around the text. I have tried researching online and got nowhere

[sthompson1021]

This may be your issue

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-general-discussion/autocad-lt-2016-plot-to-pdf-creating-red...

[pendean]

Turn off your PDF reader's searchable text highlighting feature or use a 3rd party PDF driver with your LT2016.
There is no way to turn off this new LT2016 feature at the moment.

If you have a moment, oh into your subscription management page, start a support ticket, and complain bitterly about this new feature and demand they offer a way to turn it off. It's time for us regular users be heard over there in lala Autodesk land... .

[edward_guillen]

If anyone is having issues with making PDF's and a bunch of little yellow text boxes are showing up, here is what you do.

One the line command in autocad, type EPDFSHX type in 0 that should shut them off completely, hope this helps.

[cadffm]

it doesn't help if you need  searchable (SHX) Text in PDF.

PDFSHX/EPDFSHX on, creates comments and how they looking is dependend on your PDF viewer and comment-display setting.

blue,yellow,invisible, it is by your pdf program.

Since 2024 there is another setting(2)  to create invisible text instead comments.

[pendean]

@edward_guillen It has not been "epdf..." in many versions now, and starting in AutoCAD/LT 2024 there is a new setting that is way better