Cloak (hide) URL links in PDF

Is there a way to cloak or hide the URL links within my PDF's? Or to prevent the MouseOver from displaying the URL link?
Basically, I have a URL link within a sample version of a PDF that takes a potential customer to a payment page to buy the full version of the PDF. I would rather the customer not see the URL itself to avoid confusion. For example, the customer is on the resellers site XYZ but the URL takes the customer through my site ABC (to capture the affiliate data) and then to the credit card payment page.

You can have a look at the reference files, but the basic command you need
to use is this (of course, you can replace the address to the one you want
to open):
app.launchURL("http://www.adobe.com/");
However, for this to work the user must have JS enabled and they will be
asked by Acrobat if to allow this website to open.

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More than the anal users. Many people use this information to
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> it can be done - Behaviors > Set Text > Set Text
of Status Bar.
>
> do what you want, but know that it's somewhat unreliable
(see the caveat
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object to the masking
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> your links.
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quote:
Originally posted by:
ghost zero
> Anyone know how to hide webpage link URL from the
browser status bar with
> Dreamweaver CS4? So that when the mouse cursor hovers
over a link on a
> webpage, the URL won't be shown in the browser status
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> useful for when I put my email as a link on a webpage
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> let
> my email address be known prematurely. I prefer to do
this through the
> Dreamweaver CS4 interface without coding, if possible.
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