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(In reply to steve-_- from comment #7)
> Who says PDFs are printed on paper?
Nobody.
Printing, as a concept, is putting ink onto paper or a similar medium. If a particular OS has PDF output built into its printing facility, or the computer has on it a printer driver for generating PDF files, then normally the content of the PDF generated thereby will be the same as the content of the paper document that the printing facility would ordinarily produce. Because printing isn't designed to do things that can't be done with ink on paper.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful (though it should be done by implementing bug 162659, so that the feature isn't exclusive to the macOS version), just that producing hyperlinked documents isn't what printing is designed to do. Hence my claim that this is an enhancement request.