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Safari seems an exception
Authored by: hamarkus on Jan 12, '09 08:03:20AM

The clickable elements in PDFs from Safari are new to me, apparently the PDF engine behind the 'Save as PDF' option is able to ingest some metadata (I would guess this is a rather recent functionality, ie, Leopard or Tiger).
But, I think it still pretty obvious that the application from which the PDF is saved has to provide the metadata and I also think that Apple is using private APIs here. In other words, only Apple might know how to embed these metadata and thus only its applications are able to use it.



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Both Safari and OmniWeb create clickable links in PDFs
Authored by: palahala on Mar 05, '09 02:52:08AM

I just noticed that OmniWeb 5 (a free download since February 25, 2009) also creates clickable links in PDFs. And, like explained in earlier comments, this does not only make visible URLs clickable, like www.macosxhints.com might be made clickable by the PDF reader software, but any URL will be clickable.

Simply choose Print, click the button PDF, and then select Save as PDF.



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