How can I deactivate hyperref but keep the bookmarks bar?

Question

I don't want the readers jumping on text by mistakenly clicking on author names or figure/table numbers. So I want to disable hyperref but still keep the bookmark sidebar in the pdf file. Bookmarks are kind of like toc and help the reader jump on references or appendices whenever they want.

So I want a combination of "nohyperref" and "bookmarks=true", but i don't know how to get it done.

Thanks.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.8}
\usepackage{soul} 
\sethlcolor{light-gray}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{eucal}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows,shadings,shapes,decorations.pathreplacing}
\usepackage{times}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\usepackage[nokeyprefix]{refstyle}
\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{xr-hyper}
\usepackage[bookmarks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{References.bib}
@article{cite1,
title={Nothing special},
author={Nobody, Noboditch},
year={1988}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}


\section{Introduction}
 \onehalfspacing
 \citep[see, e.g.,][]{cite1}


\section*{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}

\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{References}

\end{document}

So I want the links to citations be disabled but "introduction" and "References" to appear in bookmarks.

Answer 1

There is no in-built option to disable the links apart from the draft option. But these also disables the anchors and so bookmarks no longer have a target.

You could try to execute only a part of the commands used by the draft option. Be aware that while it works in the minimal example it could be that in larger documents you get errors because of some side-effect - hyperref is a rather complicated beast.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{bookmark}%loads hyperref
\makeatletter
\gdef\hyper@link#1#2#3{#3\Hy@xspace@end}
\gdef\hyper@link#1#2#3{#3\Hy@xspace@end}%
\let\hyper@linkstart\@gobbletwo
\def\hyper@linkend{\Hy@xspace@end}%
%\def\hyper@linkurl#1#2{#1\Hy@xspace@end}   % url optional
%\def\hyper@linkfile#1#2#3{#1\Hy@xspace@end}%files optional
\def\hyper@link@[#1]#2#3#4{#4\Hy@xspace@end}%
\let\@fifthoffive\@secondoftwo  %unclear if needed
\let\@secondoffive\@secondoftwo %unclear if needed
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{First section}
\ref{test} is on page \pageref{test}

\url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/}
\newpage
\section{Second section}\label{test}

\end{document} 

Answer 2

Last Edit: We create bookmarks manually and using the previous methods. On my linux (okular and evince) bookmarks are in the sidebar and active, and all links in the document are inactive.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.8}
\usepackage{soul} 
\sethlcolor{light-gray}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{eucal}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows,shadings,shapes,decorations.pathreplacing}
\usepackage{times}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\usepackage[nokeyprefix]{refstyle}
\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{xr}

\usepackage[depth=-1]{bookmark}

\hypersetup{draft}
\PassOptionsToPackage{draft}{bookmark}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{References.bib}
@article{cite1,
title={Nothing special},
author={Nobody, Noboditch},
year={1988}
}
\end{filecontents*}


\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}\bookmark[page=\thepage,level=0]{Introduction}

 \onehalfspacing
 \citep[see, e.g.,][]{cite1}
 This is a reference \ref{sec:test}
\lipsum[1-5]

\section{Test}\label{sec:test}\bookmark[page=\thepage,level=0]{Test}
\lipsum[1-5]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\subsection{Test subsection}\bookmark[page=\thepage,level=1]{Test subsection}
\lipsum[1-3]
\section*{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}

\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{References}\bookmark[page=\thepage,level=0]{References}

\end{document}

First answer

Here is a solution with bookmark package. I removed hyperref as you don't really need it:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt,draft]{article}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.8}
\usepackage{soul} 
\sethlcolor{light-gray}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{eucal}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows,shadings,shapes,decorations.pathreplacing}
\usepackage{times}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\usepackage[nokeyprefix]{refstyle}
\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{xr}
%\usepackage[bookmarks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{References.bib}
@article{cite1,
title={Nothing special},
author={Nobody, Noboditch},
year={1988}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\setlength\overfullrule{0pt}

\begin{document}


\section{Introduction}
 \onehalfspacing
 \citep[see, e.g.,][]{cite1}
 This is a reference \ref{sec:test}
\lipsum[1-5]

\section{Test}\label{sec:test}
\lipsum[1-3]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,draft=false]{example-image-a}
\section*{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}

\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{References}

\end{document}

Edit: added draft option in document class and checked... Also, I had to add [draft=false] option for the pictures and everything is fine. Test it.

Edit: Added \setlength\overfullrule{0pt} and changed \usepackage{hypre-xr} to \usepackage{xr} thanks to @blub.

Also from his comment, a better alternative (to avoid writing draft=false in every image) is to add the code:

 \makeatletter \lowercase{\Gin@boolkey{false}}{draft} \makeatother

in our preamble