Links not clickable when printing to PDF

[ericscheid]

With the Get PDF function (which simply invokes the browser's Print dialog), often hyperlinks in the resulting PDF are not "clickable".

Although #2050 and #1749 suggests a CSS tweak, turns out this was just a fluke. The problem still occurs, and it occurs with other browsers, other websites, other platforms.

https://superuser.com/questions/809627/print-webpage-to-pdf-with-working-hyperlinks

This needs to be raised as a Chrome Bug if it hasn't already. We can flail around with css tweaks but that will be overall unsatisfying.

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Also, a related bug in PDF printing is that the text of the PDF is not selectable or searcheable.

[5e-Cleric]

Cannot replicate this issue in Windows 11 with Chrome 127, but we just got a report from someone:

Hello everyone. Been trying to open ToC Links in exported PDFs with both SumatraPDF and Adobe Acrobat, as well as Okular, and links seem to not be clickable. I have tried exporting with both Edge v127.0.2651.105 & Chrome v124.0.6367.208. Is it an issue with export or could it be my device?

[5e-Cleric]

Most of these issues seem to be reported by people with filter drop shadows applied, which turn the element to an image (see #1813).

Can anyone replicate this issue? If not, considering closing this.

[5e-Cleric]

Nobody responded, considering this issue as fixed, or related to the known chrome bug.