Nick and Anne Hopton wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
You can alternatively simply use:
\href{F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name}
This opens the file with the default program that is set in the
registry as default viewer for html-files.
Thanks again for this Uwe, now when I click on the link in the PDF,
Explorer fires up and loads index.html. All very good, but the trouble
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. On the CD the link in the PDF will always
point at drive F: which isn't where the HTML file will be (unless by
some happy chance all of the people to whom I distribute the CD have
drive F: as their CD-ROM drives).
I know this isn't strictly a LyX problem, but any hints on a possible
solution would be appreciated. I'm very reluctant to abandon the idea of
using a LyX-generated PDF as a 'front page' for my project (it's
genealogy, for the family).
Regards,
Nick.
assuming your LyX produced PDF is in Directory1 have you tried something like:
\href{./Directory2/index.html}{name}
otherwise known as a relative link?
works for me in a minimal test on Linux, using either the info above in ERT or
putting the URL in using LyX's insert->URL.
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