On 2003-08-09, 04:42 GMT, Xinwei Yu wrote: > Hi, all, Sorry, for answering too fast without investigating the issue somehow.
> I try to put in my pdf notes (generated by LyX) some hyperlinks > to other pdf papers in the same directory. So I just use the > hyperref package and then use the Insert->URL function. I put, e.g., > > file://file.pdf in URL and filename in NAME Well, this is certainly not the correct URL -- see RFC1808. The correct one is file:file.pdf (// introduces the network part). > 1. both "filename" and "file://file.pdf" is shown in my pdf file, > and only the latter is made a hyperlink. Checking the "HTML type" > box didn't change anything. Actually, I have fought with this ``feature'' for years and I have no answer to that. However, the one to blame (and report bug to -- which I never did, shame on me!) is the author/maintainer of hyperref LaTeX package. > 2. when I click the link, it doesn't work, said the file couldn't > be found. So the pdf hyperlink won't work with relative path? > that would be very disappointing! This is IMHO bug in Mozilla (which you use as urlCommand in your ~/.xpdfrc, don't you?). See above for the reference to RFC. For example, lynx behaves with file:newfile1.pdf correctly. > 3. I changed the path to the absolute one,i.e., > file:///home/blah/blah/file.pdf, > the link worked on that particular machine. But when I access > my file remotely ( invoking acroread via ssh ), the link again > wouldn't work. :-( Actually, this one really shouldn't work -- // introduces network stanza, which in some browsers defaults to localhost when empty. So, you were running actually file://localhost/home/blah/blah/file.pdf, which is not what you want (or is it?). Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
