Online PDF exporting issue - Hyperlinks & Transparencies

We just started putting our printed magazine (approx. 65 pages) online in digital format with hyperlinks. The problem we are having is with transparencies and effects from all the graphic elements. With so many problems, our digital mag vendor said to export as a PDF X-1a but in doing so, we lose all the hyperlinks that are created in InDesign. Manually adding all those links in Acrobat would be way too time consuming. Does anyone know of an easy workaround for this? Like in Illustrator, you could easily use the Rasterize command to flatten effects.

The options are the same in CS6...
PDF/X is a print format and doesn't allow interactivity, but you can try starting there, then change the "Standard" dropdown to "none" at which point the bookmarks and hyperlinks checkboxes should become active, but not all interactivity is going to work (like buttons). You can get the same transparency flattening by starting with the Press Quality or High Quality Print presets and changing the cmpatibility to Acrobat 4.
I don't work with interactivity or things like embedded video and sound in my workflow, but I don't believe you can flatten the transparency from ID if you export to PDF(interactive), though you might be able to do it after the fact using the PDF optimizer in Acrobat Pro.

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