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How can I retain hyperlinks while saving a webpage as PDF via Print?

In SL, I could give Print from Safari and instead of clicking PDF > Save as PDF, if I click Preview and save the document from within Preview, I could retain the hyperlinks. But this no longer works in Lion. Anyone has a solution?

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 7:37 PM

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Aug 19, 2011 9:30 AM in response to mc.david

This is killing me too. As a researcher who likes to print web docs as PDF's to highlight and annotate, to do so I now have to be without the links. This is a MAJOR step backwards and I hope it is just a bug and not one of the new Apple's notorious new ways to dumb everything down.


PS For me this started the day I upgraded to 10.7


Have tried all browser variations, using the Adobe Acrobat to make the PDF, none of it works.


And no, 10.7.1 does nothing

Aug 21, 2011 1:05 PM in response to mc.david

I'm in the same boat as the rest of you and can no longer retain the links in my pdf documents...I contacted support and was told that this feature is no longer supported in Lion. I tried to find another program like PDF pen that supports this feature, but presently they say this is not working in their program either in Lion. A primitive work around is to save the webpage...I used to love this feature. If this was done for security, IMO you can carry security to the point where you don't have a complex OS anymore,...just a MBP that's heavier more expensive version of an Ipad. I'm annoyed that this feature was dropped. With every passing day, I'm thinking of going back to SL...and staying there.

mc.david wrote:


In SL, I could give Print from Safari and instead of clicking PDF > Save as PDF, if I click Preview and save the document from within Preview, I could retain the hyperlinks. But this no longer works in Lion. Anyone has a solution?

Aug 27, 2011 4:01 AM in response to mc.david

I'm in the same boat like you... An it is Safary, that broke it, not Lion.


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204750?answerId=16027859022#16027859022


I traced things down to a Safari bug introduced April 6th.

Nightly build 83010 works, 83080 does not.


I filed a bug report which is still dormand:


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65076


The problem: nobody picked up that bug for about 2 months.

So don't expect a solution soon. Perhaps we should start to be

a bit more vocal at the Safari team ...

Jan 6, 2012 2:03 PM in response to rastarman

A small update to links missing when saving as a PDF.


I was looking over the Apple Support document HT2506 (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2506?viewlocale=en_US#PDF), Mac 101: Preview. It mentions that the Annotate feature will allow links to be embedded in a PDF. While not being very elegant, it works.


But now, here is the insteresting find:


I saved the support page as a PDF so that I could review it later. When I opened the PDF later to read though the document, I was fidgeting with the trackpad and noticed that the http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2506?viewlocale=en_US#PDF

link at the bottom of each page is hot! The link to the support article works, but none of the other links in the document.


The results were the same whether I saved it out in the Reader format or the standard "Save as PDF."

Mar 23, 2012 10:23 AM in response to mc.david

I have this problem, except I am usually using Firefox (9.*, 10.2, 11) after I switched to OS X (10.7.2 and 10.7.3). Will have to forward a support question to the Mozilla team and see how they can fix this, it seems Firefox browser has the same trouble.

When choosing (from Safari 5.1.3 or Firefox 9*, 10*, 1nd 11.0) either

File -> Print -> PDF -> Open PDF in Preview, or

File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF

The resulting file contains "highlighted" or blue text where the original web page contained links. However links WITHIN the document, or to external URLs, and DEAD. broken. Click it nothing happens.

What am I missing?


Per this thread I tried an upgrade to safari 5.1.4. Voila, PDF files have links. Interestingly, the resulting links in the PDF are NEITHER highlighted, blue color, or in any way distinguishable by eye. For instance, print-as-PDF any Wikipedia article. If the article used italics to distinguish a link, you will see italics in the PDF. But no color clue if the text is in normal font. The only clue to a link's existence is if you hover over a link-word with the cursor, the link appears. ARGH! Why can't the PDF display the tet as it appeared in the browser, i.e. with a color highlight!

How can I retain hyperlinks while saving a webpage as PDF via Print?

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