Way to preserve hrefs of hyperlinks when a PDF is printed?

[Angela_French]

Is there a way to preserve hrefs of embedded hyperlinks so that when the PDF is printed the user has the URL displayed on the printed document?

As an example, if the PDF reads:  "Wikipedia is a great website to quickly learn about many different subjects,"  and Wikipedia is a  hyperlink, then the printed document would read  "Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) is a great......subjects."

Thank you.

[Bernd Alheit]

Not possible.

[try67]

No, there's no built-in way of doing that. If this is a file you created using something like InDesign then you could define a non-visible, print-only layer that will contain that information when the file is printed instead of what you see on the screen, but that's about the only way I could of to make this happen.

[Angela_French]

Does MS Word provide a way to define a non-visible, print-only "layer" that would contain the href?  Most of our PDFs are made from Word documents.

[try67]

I don't think so, no. You would need a more advanced layout application than Word to achieve something like that.

You can create such a layer in Acrobat, though, through the Layers panel. So if you created two PDF files, one for on-screen viewing and one for printing purposes you would be able to insert the latter as a layer into the former in Acrobat.