519563 - Mac OS X: "Save as PDF..." does not preserve links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 454059

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Charles Stuart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: Camino Version 1.6.9 (1.8.1.23 2009081518)

When saving a PDF of a webpage (from the print menu), links are not clickable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a with links
2. Choose Print
3. Choose "Save as PDF"
4. Open saved file in Preview

Actual Results:  
Note links are not clickable, however they are styled as such.

Expected Results:  
The links would be clickable from the PDF

Safari has this functionality.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

-> Core for triage.

Comment 2

[Stewart Gordon]

I never would have guessed that the Mac OS printing API supported hyperlinks.

See also bug 162659.

Comment 3

[Jefferson]

If it makes any difference in prioritizing this bug, it affects Firefox for Mac as well.

SuMo thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/923776

Comment 4

[Will Thompson]

Dup of bug 454059?

Comment 5

[pierre.haessig]

Indeed a dup of bug 454059. Should be closed.

Comment 6

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Marking dupe based on comment 4 and comment 5. Thanks!