[Bug 1551949]

[Stewart]

(In reply to kaz from comment #16)
> One issue here is that the output is deceptive.
> 
> The document is rendered such that the links look like links: they are rendered in blue, and underlined.

This is handled by CSS.  In order to not have links highlighted, there
would need to be a CSS rule specified as @media print, either in the
webpage CSS or in the default stylesheet.

> I was fooled by this and sent a document to someone without actually trying the links.
> 
> If you're not going to make it work, the least you could do is not fake the appearance, you know? Would it be difficult to pop up a dialog box or something?
> 
>   "this document contains hyperlinks; these will not work           [Save PDF Anyway]   [Cancel]"

Given that nearly all web pages have hyperlinks, I think that would look
somewhat ridiculous, and annoy a user who is creating PDFs of several
webpages.  Furthermore, I'm not sure if it's possible to detect if the
user has selected 'Save as PDF' under macOS, or is using a PDF printer
driver under any OS.

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  Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links

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