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

On 19/09/2020 16:33, Dave Barton wrote:
> 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.

What version of LibreOffice are you using, and what is the exact wording 
of the error message?  At least with recent versions of LibreOffice, the 
wording of the error message when clicking the link should be: 
"'file://abc.xyz/' cannot be passed to an external application to open 
it (e.g., it might not be an absolute URL, or might denote no existing 
file)."

And note that <file://abc.xyz/> is not a relative URL, it is an absolute 
file URL with an "abc.xyz" authority, which is interpreted by 
LibreOffice at least on Windows to denote the root directory of some 
(most likely non-existing) abc.xyz UNC share.


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