On Mar 9, 2011, at 20:20, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christiaan,
>
> when leaving the empty square bracktes out, it does not work either (at
> least for me).
>
> Why would you prefer relative paths above an absolute file link?
> When the pdf created by latex is moved to another place, all links would be
> broken.
> (Sure, if the pdf shall be moved to another system, the relative paths have
> their beauty, but IMHO it absolutely depends on the usage which alternative
> makes more sense...)
Because it ties your document to your particular document in a particular place
on your particular home directory, so it's not portable.
> BTW I also made a test with 2 links in a pdf:
>
> that works, but it opens on page 1 and not on page 3
> \href[page=3]{run://test.pdf}{relative path}
>
> that does not work:
> \href{/Volumes/Daten/test.pdf}{absolute path}
>
> There seems to be a dependence on the pdf viewer:
> Preview behaves like Skim (first one works, but only jumps to page 1, second
> one does nothing).
>
> In Acrobat Reader 7 (I only have the old one installed) it is the opposite:
> the first one does not work, the second one works.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Martin
>
Sorry, I get complete rubbish in the PDF, no valid links in the PDF data. In
all of these cases.
Anyway, almost all of what you say is more about tex. I cannot tell you
anything about that. I could tell you something about what Skim does with
certain kinds of PDF, but I don't know what kinds of PDF links you're talking
about.
And are you using the latest Skim?
Christiaan
>> Von: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
>> Antworten an: For general discussion about using Skim
>> <[email protected]>
>> Datum: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:34:41 +0100
>> An: Alain Matthes <[email protected]>
>> Cc: <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: Re: [Skim-app-users] problem with hyperref and pdf file
>>
>> None of these work for me, and in fact cannot possibly work, because the
>> links
>> in the PDF are incomplete and even invalid. Your problem is that square
>> brackets [..] in a latex command are for OPTIONAL options, and therefore
>> should NOT be included when they're not present, i.e.
>>
>> \href{file:///Users/ego/Desktop/texteinv.pdf}{texteinv.pdf absolute path}
>>
>> Apart from that, I would never use a file URL in a link, use a link for a
>> relative path.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 19:08, Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>
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