Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks

[Todd Denniston]

Nick Hopton wrote:

Subject:
Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks
From:
Nick and Anne Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:16:15 +0100
To:
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To:
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Nick and Anne Hopton schrieb:

is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However, what I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML file at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible to use relative paths in PDF links.

\href{index.html}{name}

Besides what Todd explained you can also simply put the html file in the same folder where the PDF is located. The \href call ise then simply

Thanks to all,
Nick.

I tried that Uwe, but it didn't work. However, I *think* I might have found a vile work-around by editing the URL in the PDF using a binary file editor, as follows: ./Subtype/Link/A<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(./front_page.htm)>>.>> endobj.20 0 obj <<./D [18 Where the target is 'front_page.htm'. I have to test the CDs on a couple of other machines before I can be sure.

what did the line in the PDF look like before you edited it?

putting
./front_page.htm
in a LyX URL box should have generated the pdf line you have above.

Output from the attached lyx file:
The ERT generates:
        in LaTeX
                \href{./test/index.html}{ERT}
        in PDF
/Subtype/Link/A<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(file:./test/index.html)>>

the LyX box generates
        in LaTeX
                \url{./test/index.html}
        in PDF
/Subtype/Link/A<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(./test/index.html)>>

at least on my Linux box.



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Todd Denniston
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So I think you should be able to get where you want to go by using LyX's internal URL insert. It is annoying that I have to use xpdf to test this as evince does not follow links in pdf docs.

test2.lyx
Description: application/lyx