Sorry, Laine, that's not so. Smile's one-liner save www in "/Users/ 
emmanuel/Desktop/hardcopy.pdf" does preserve links. In Preview you get  
the white glove over buttons, and all. I don't know how they do that,  
but it's quite wonderful.

Oh, in my snippet below the two lines are two different features, that  
was maybe confusing.

Best,
Emmanuel


On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Laine Lee wrote:

> On 3/2/10 10:49 AM, "Emmanuel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this can be of any help to anyone, but just in case
>> here is how we make pdf documents out of html pages. That's with
>> Smile, you know, that famous (free) Applescript editor and a bit  
>> more...
>>
>> -- make a browser window using webkit
>> set www to make new web window with properties {path
>> name:"http://www.quomodo.com
>> "}
>> -- save the visible screen as jpeg
>> take screenshot of www in "/Users/emmanuel/Desktop/hardcopy.jpg"
>> -- save the whole page as pdf
>> save www in "/Users/emmanuel/Desktop/hardcopy.pdf"
>>
>> Emmanuel
>> Satimage-software, the makers of Smile
>> Quomodo, the extensive users of Smile
>>
>
> But if you convert it to an image first, you can't preserve  
> sophisticated
> pdf features such as internal and external links, a feature which
> traditional html2pdf performs quite well, I think.
>
> Laine Lee