In Microsoft Visio 2013, you could export hyperlinks on background pages to PDF, and they worked flawlessly. The same does not appear to be true in Visio 2016. I have Visio Pro 2016 at home and at work. This issue persists for both licenses.
I think this is a bug, but I'm not sure how to report a bug to Microsoft. On the other hand, if it's operator error, I'd like to know what I might be doing wrong between Visio 2013, where it worked every time, and Visio 2016 where it never works.
Please do not confuse the issue I'm reporting with exporting hyperlinks in regular pages from Visio 2016 to PDF. That works just fine. It's hyperlinks on background pages that appear to be the issue. I haven't fully adopted Visio 2016 because of this issue. In fact, continue to use my older Visio 2013 license, though I installed Visio 2016 months ago.
Bill Graham