Re: [libreoffice-users] Create a relative hyperlink to file?

Hi Regina & all,

Even though I was following instructions to the letter I must have been
doing something wrong wrong yesterday. Today I started the computers
(Win 10-2004 x64 & Linux Kernel 5.8 x64) running LO 7.0.1.2, opened the
odt file and the relative links worked perfectly. I am still unsure of
how to explain the appearance of absolute paths over the links when
writing up the user guides, but that is a different issue.

Having got the odt file working, I am now looking for a way to get those
relative links working in an exported PDF copy of the file. I have tried
several different export options, but clicking the links in the PDF file
always returns the "File <Absolute Path> not found" error.
Any thoughts or suggestions about this would be welcome.

Thanks for all your help.

Best Regards
Dave

On 19/09/2020 23:05, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I have now used an English UI, and now the correct fields. Open
> Hyperlink-dialog, click Document. Click "Open File" button at the ride
> side of the Document Path field.
>
> I have tried with system open file dialog and with LO's own dialog. It
> works in both cases. Ctrl-click opens e.g. a linked .odt file in
> LibreOffice.
>
> I work on Windows 10. What OS do you use? Perhaps there is an error in
> Linux?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
> DaveB schrieb am 19-Sep-20 um 23:22:
> > On 19/09/2020 20:01, Robert Großkopf wrote:
> > > Hi Dave,
> > >
> > > > I am trying to create a Writer document with a number of links to files
> > > > in the same directory as the odt file itself. Using absolute paths
> > > > everything works perfectly, but relative links (eg. file://abc.xyz)
> > > > always fail with a "not an *absolute* URL" error.
> > >
> > > The links will be saved als relative links in the file. Try to move the
> > > file to another folder - together with the other documents. It will
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Have a look in the *.odt-file in content.xml:
> > > <text:a xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="../LibreOffice/Bilder_gross.odt"
> > > will open the document Bilder_gross.odt, which is in a subfolder of the
> > > document I have created.
> > >
> > > For documents you could set in the further settings for a Hyperlink:
> > > Text: "My Document". Then there will be shown only the name "My
> > > Document" for the document. Not the absolute path to the file, which is
> > > saved only for the shown text in the document, not for the real path to
> > > the file. This information of the path is misleading.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Robert
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Many thanks for taking the time to reply.
> >
> > If you look at my original post and my reply to Regina the odt file and
> > the hyperlinked files are are already in the same directory, so I see no
> > reason why moving them to another location would change anything.
> >
> > It really doesn't matter what appears in content.xml. The critical point
> > is that keyboard Ctrl+click on the hyperlink in the odt file generates a
> > "not an *absolute* URL" error.
> >
> > Sorry if I have misunderstood or misinterpreted the explanation you and
> > Regina have kindly given, but I need to clearly explain this for
> > inexperienced users in the next edition of the official LibreOffice
> > Writer Guide.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Dave



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