772291 - Print to PDF should include link URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 454059

(Toolkit :: Printing, defect)

Description

[Liam Morland]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1 Iceweasel/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120616071557

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefix, print a web page using Print to File, output format PDF. 


Actual results:

The links in the resulting PDF are not clickable.


Expected results:

The links in the resulting PDF should be clickable with the same destination that they had on the web. I understand that Safari does this.

Related question:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/815759

Comment 1

[Ioana (away)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0 (20120710030551)

This issue also reproduces on the latest Nightly.

Comment 3

[Bernhard Reiter]

From bug 1022397: 

From the resulting PDFs' properties, it seems like Firefox is using cairo to draw the page to a Gtk PrintOperation, while apparently Chromium [whose "printed" PDFs contain working hyperlinks] is doing something different. While I realize that cairo doesn't offer any options to retain links, links could probably be added through some sort of post-processing, as e.g. found in  WeasyPrint, which is a cairo-based HTML-to-PDF renderer library which adds custom metadata (beyond the capabilities of cairo) through some custom PDF post-processing functions, as seen at https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/blob/master/weasyprint/pdf.py

Comment 5

[Will Thompson]

Dup of bug 454059?