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

Hi :)
Good point.  A 
. 
is the current directory/folder .. is the folder that contains the folder you are currently in 
(=the "parent" folder) and 
/
is the root of the entire file-system.  In Windows-only nomenclature it would be 
C:

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 29/1/12, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

From: Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] relative paths to linked graphics do not work
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 29 January, 2012, 21:47

At 21:32 29/01/2012 +0100, Daniel Wibbing wrote:
> you are a genius! :)

Possibly not - but I'm pleased if I've solved your problem, of course.

> 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.
>
> So I would guess that there is a real bug in LibreOffice concerning that.

I'm not sure that this is true.  If you start a path with a slash - as /Bilder/Kapitel 
2/Hall_effect_A.png - it has to be interpreted relative to *something*, and you are assuming that 
this will be the folder containing the parent document.  But this appears not to be so: perhaps 
instead it is interpreted relative to the path set for the default folder for documents.  Or 
perhaps the root folder on the current drive. (I haven't tested this.)  The dot forces the starting 
folder to be the current one.

Brian Barker


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