Major operating system have built-in PDF printers these days, integrated into the standard Print flow. So, this largely works (with one caveat).
1) Windows 10 and Linux (Ubuntu at least) have built-in PDF printers in the list of available printers, by default. ("Microsoft Print to PDF" and "Print to file")
2) On MacOS, I believe there's a "Preview" button on the print dialog, which really prints to a PDF.
So you likely have one of these options available to you already... except maybe this is your concern (this is the caveat):
> External printers don't properly handle links.
I can confirm this (on Win10 at least where I just tested it, printing http://example.org/ which includes a link, which is not clickable in Microsoft Print to PDF printed output). That might be worth filing as a separate bug. Having said that, I'm not sure it's worthwhile for us to invest in duplicating a piece of OS-provided functionality just to work around that one defect, (which some might even consider a feature from a security perspective).
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Major operating system have built-in PDF printers these days, integrated into the standard Print flow. So, this largely works (with one caveat).
1) Windows 10 and Linux (Ubuntu at least) have built-in PDF printers in the list of available printers, by default. ("Microsoft Print to PDF" and "Print to file")
2) On MacOS, I believe there's a "Preview" button on the print dialog, which really prints to a PDF.
So you likely have one of these options available to you already... except maybe this is your concern (this is the caveat):
> External printers don't properly handle links.
I can confirm this (on Win10 at least where I just tested it, printing http://example.org/ which includes a link, which is not clickable in Microsoft Print to PDF printed output). That might be worth filing as a separate bug. Having said that, I'm not sure it's worthwhile for us to invest in duplicating a piece of OS-provided functionality just to work around that one small defect (which is a defect that some might even consider a feature from a security perspective).