Ever go to save your Word document as a PDF and Word doesn’t like you that day because it keeps removing your links? Or you printed your document to PDF, and again all your links are gone? Let’s understand what the difference is between the two actions – no let’s back up further: there’s a difference according to the computer. When you Save to PDF the computer thinks, “ok, time to convert the current file type, docx, to another file type, pdf,” but when you Print to PDF the computer thinks, “Flatten everything. Remove any electronic interaction. This thing is going to be on paper.” Your computer is a didactic idiot. Even though it appears to be saving and therein converting the document to a different file type when you tell the system to Print to PDF, the computer still thinks it needs to prepare the document to be on paper that’s why your links and interactivity disappears. Many people think that saving and printing are the same when it comes to PDF, but they are not because the program believes they are different. That first scenario where the person insisted they clicked Save to PDF and yet their links disappeared. It was because they clicked Print to PDF and tricked themselves into believing that the save file option they clicked through was the same. They never used the option to Save As PDF.