I have a local (on the Windows file system, not served through localhost) web site. I'm using Prince to splice together a selection of pages from the site into a PDF. I have a problem with cross-document hyperlinks as seen in the following simplified scenario.
Sphinx is called from a one-line batch file to process a list of files:
list.txt looks like this:
The document "functions.html" is this (again, this is a simplification):
In a browser, that link works fine. However, when I build my the "mydoc.pdf" document, the link is incorrect. Hover over the constructed link, and an Acrobat tooltip reports the target as:
Click the link and it also reports this target in the ensuing dialog. Choosing "Allow" will cause it to load a browser with this:
The URL in the browser does not match what the tooltip or dialog said, and it will fail thanks to the "%23"; remove "%23" or change it to "#" and the page will load in the browser, because this is indeed the location of the file on my local file system. This would not work for anyone to whom I might give the PDF.
However, what I want is a link that works within the PDF. I was expecting that the relative link from the source html file would "pass through" to the constructed PDF, but that does not appear to be the case.
What am I missing? I'm pretty sure I missed something. Apologies if I missed the answer to this in an earlier post -- in which case, I missed that too even though I did search.
Thanks!
Sphinx is called from a one-line batch file to process a list of files:
sphinx -l list.txt -o mydoc.pdflist.txt looks like this:
C:\site\main\main.html
C:\site\utility\functions.html
C:\site\process\information.htmlThe document "functions.html" is this (again, this is a simplification):
<html>
<body>
See <a href="../main/main.html#bookmark">main page</a> for information.
</body>
</html>In a browser, that link works fine. However, when I build my the "mydoc.pdf" document, the link is incorrect. Hover over the constructed link, and an Acrobat tooltip reports the target as:
C:/site/utility/../main/main.html#bookmark
Click the link and it also reports this target in the ensuing dialog. Choosing "Allow" will cause it to load a browser with this:
file:///C:/site/main/main.html%23bookmarkThe URL in the browser does not match what the tooltip or dialog said, and it will fail thanks to the "%23"; remove "%23" or change it to "#" and the page will load in the browser, because this is indeed the location of the file on my local file system. This would not work for anyone to whom I might give the PDF.
However, what I want is a link that works within the PDF. I was expecting that the relative link from the source html file would "pass through" to the constructed PDF, but that does not appear to be the case.
What am I missing? I'm pretty sure I missed something. Apologies if I missed the answer to this in an earlier post -- in which case, I missed that too even though I did search.
Thanks!