Re: [libreoffice-users] relative paths to linked graphics do not work

Daniel:
    Perhaps a little studying on how relative paths work is in order.
When you see a relative path that begins with ./xxx, this means to begin
looking for xxx in the same folder you are presently in. (xxx can be a
folder or file.) When you see a relative path that begins with ../xxx,
this means to begin looking for xxx in the folder containing the folder
you are presently in.
     For example: the document is in /home/Document/aaa/bbb. The picture
file something.png is in /home/Document/aaa/bbb/ccc. Then the relative
path for the picture file is ./ccc/something.png. You are in the bbb
folder. Look for ccc in it. Then look for something.png in the ccc
folder.
      But if the path for something.png
is /home/Document/aaa/ddd/something.png, the relative path would
be ../ddd/something.png. You are in the bbb folder. The paths says go
back to the aaa folder and locate for the ddd folder there. Then locate
something.png in the ddd folder.

--Dan

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 21:32 +0100, Daniel Wibbing wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> you are a genius! :)
> Using this little dot in front of the path name really works!
> > ./Bilder/Kapitel 2/Hall_effect_A.png
>
> Like this I am now able to delete the beginnings of the absolute path names, set the dot in front 
> of the relative part and the picture will be shown. Great!
>
> However this is certainly not the most elegant way a program should work.
> cK correctly said:
> > I have same problem.
> > Help says "A relative reference is only possible when both files exist on the same drive" 
> > (http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Relative_and_Absolute_Links) Nevertheless, it seems LO 
> > turns relative links to absolute links automatically. And there is no way around.
> >
> > cK
>
> So I would guess that there is a real bug in LibreOffice concerning that.
>
> Could anyone tell me how bugs are reported?
>
> Thanks a lot for all your answers!
> Daniel
>
>
> Am 29.01.2012 um 17:52 schrieb Brian Barker:
>
> > At 17:37 29/01/2012 +0100, you wrote:
> > > I tried to edit the path to the source manually by typing e.g.
> > > /Bilder/Kapitel 2/Hall_effect_A.png
> > > where "/Bilder" is a folder within the folder in which the document is located as well.
> > > But it didn't work out.
> >
> > Have you tried
> > ./Bilder/Kapitel 2/Hall_effect_A.png
> > - with that leading dot?  Does that help?
> >
> > (Hmm: I used to know about the Hall effect - some forty years ago!)
> >
> > Brian Barker




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