From Web Page : <a href "relative/..."> gets converted to absolute file:/// link  SOLVED

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From Web Page : <a href "relative/..."> gets converted to absolute file:/// link

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Hi Support,

I'm playing with the "From Web Page" to convert an HTML document to PDF.

All looks fine except one problem with how links are created from <a href... >'s.

If the location of html.html is "c:\folder" and there's "<a href="subfolder/file.pdf" />link</a>", the resulting PDF will have an URI action link annotation, but the URI property will look like "file:///c:/folder/subfolder/file.pdf" (so absolute) instead of just "subfolder/file.pdf" (relative).

As a result: links no longer work if the pdf is moved elsewhere (along with subfolder).


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Re: From Web Page : <a href "relative/..."> gets converted to absolute file:/// link

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Hello, zarkogajic

Thank you for bringing this up, I have reproduce it and passed it along for review.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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Re: From Web Page : <a href "relative/..."> gets converted to absolute file:/// link  SOLVED

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Hi Dan,

Tx.

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From Web Page : <a href "relative/..."> gets converted to absolute file:/// link

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:)