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Relative Links to Files with Export

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k.wilczek

14 Aug, 2014 09:37 AM

Hi Brett,

first of all, great app!

Second:
I need to write a documents that links to other PDF documents that reside within the same folder.
So within my document I will write the following Syntax

[This is the PDF I am referring to](./the_other_pdf_document.pdf)

Everything works fine when I preview it in Marked. I get in to trouble when I export my Document into a pdf.
The PDF Export will resolve the relative links to fixed one like this

file:///Users/..../the_other_pdf_document.pdf

Is there a way to retain the relative links?

Cheers

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 14 Aug, 2014 12:39 PM

   

   I'm afraid this comes down to the same bug that keeps intra-document
   links from working. WebKit's PDF export breaks all file links by making
   them absolute, and relative links always end up pointing to the wrong
   spot.

   There are alternative (and much less convenient) means of generating a
   PDF, if you need this functionality. You might look into wkhtml2pdf, a
   command line tool that allows you to export HTML from Marked and then
   convert it to a PDF with links intact. Let me know if you need any
   assistance getting that working.

   Hopefully this bug will be fixed soon. It's already fixed in the open
   source WebKit thread, but not in the version that Apple provides.

   -Brett

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2. k.wilczek closed this discussion on 14 Aug, 2014 02:03 PM.