Re: Links to external PDF don't work in PDF output

[Don Mankewich <don.mankewich-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

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I have worked out what the problem is. I opened the PDF created by pandoc 
in a browser (Chrome, Edge) thinking that it would resolve the links 
relative to the directory I opened the PDF from but they don't do that.

When I open the output PDF with Adobe PDF Reader the links work and the 
referenced PDF opens in the viewer. 

Thanks to Huub de Beer for helping me troubleshoot this issue.

On Friday, September 15, 2017 at 10:14:01 AM UTC+10, Don Mankewich wrote:
>
> I'm creating documents with markdown which include reference links to 
> external PDF documents which exist in the same folder. When I use pandoc to 
> generate a PDF document from my markdown, there appear to be links in the 
> PDF when I hover over the labels but the external PDF does not open when I 
> click the link. I don't get any warnings of skipped files. Here's an 
> example of my markdown reference, it's in a numbered list. 
>
>  [ats alert tables](ats-alert-database-diagram.pdf)
>
> I have read that pandoc references relative file paths according to the 
> directory where pandoc is executed but I'm running pandoc in the directory 
> containing the external PDF so I shouldn't have to add further pathing 
> information should I? I'm also using Harp JS to create a static site from 
> my content and the link references work in Harp so I don't want to change 
> that to support pandoc. Ideally the relative paths should for both pandoc 
> and Harp.
>
> Any suggestions? 
>

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