When I try to embed a link to a local file in a LaTeX document via \href{file://./path-to-file}{filename} it's typeset as a remote link, so http:// is prepended. How can I link to a local file, with a path relative to the location of the PDF produced?
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you should be able to put the URL in the \url tag:
\url{file://./path-to-file}pdflatex will (I believe) do the right thing, so it appears as a link in the resulting PDF. Whether your computer will know how to open the file is another question.
You can try using \href{run:<file>}. For example:
\href{run:./myfile.png}{%
This is the link (Can be also a figure)
} - Put the
myfile.png(or whatever extension) to the same folder as the .tex file.
I for sure that this works:
The test plan is \href{run:test_plan.pdf}{here}.Where the file test_plan.pdf is in the same directory as the latex file that refers to it.
In Windows, this format worked for me with a network drive. Note the three backslashes at the front.
\url{file:\\\zfs\\server$\\folder\\sub_folder\\title with spaces_and_underscores.pptx}have you tried the \include{}command? Like \include{chapters/filename} you can include a .tex file. But don't write the .tex in the command. There is a page in the StackExchange network, which is only about TeX.
My base TeX project looks like this:
My projectname.tex
\input{header}
\begin{document}
\hyphenation{} % Words where LaTex-hyphenation fails
\maketitle % Creates a page with the title
\newpage
% \onehalfspacing % This uses the package setspace
\tableofcontents % This creates the table of contents
\include{chapter/acronym} % Acronyms i use
\include{chapter/chapter_1}
% ...
\include{chapter/chapter_n}
\include{chapter/glossary} % My glossary
\bibliography{bibliography/bibliography} % Literature database
\end{document}A chapter_x.tex looks like this:
\section[section short title]{section title}And my header.tex looks like this:
%
% Document preamble
% \documentclass[ % 12pt, % default font size a4paper, % papersize twoside, % printout will be two sided
% txt, % ]{article} \usepackage{ulem} % all words have the underline at the same height \uline statt \underline \usepackage[ % T1 % T1 font has european sigs ]{fontenc} \usepackage[ % utf8 % Depends on the operating system ]{inputenc} % \usepackage[ % dvips, % usenames % allows to use blue yellow etc for font colors ]{color} \usepackage{hyperref} % allows hyperlings in the table of contents \usepackage{amsmath} % math stuff \usepackage{amssymb} % even more math stuff \usepackage{extpfeil} \usepackage[ % style=long, %
% toc=true, % Boolean; if true the glossary will be shown in the table of contents hypertoc=true, % Hyperlinks in the glossary hyper=true, % number=none, % acronym=true % ]{glossary} \setacronymnamefmt{\gloshort} \usepackage{makeidx}
% \usepackage{xymtexps}
% \usepackage{cite} % Used for citing \usepackage{bibgerm} \usepackage[numbers,square]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{dinat} \usepackage{textcomp} % Allows to set a ° for example \usepackage[ % german % You may not need this *g* ]{babel} \usepackage{setspace} % allows to easily change the space between lines \usepackage{pstricks} % Used to create graphs \usepackage{pst-plot} % Used to create graphs \renewcommand{\acronymname}{Abkürzungsverzeichnis} % Sets the name for acronymepage (I'm from germany) \makeindex \makeacronym \makeglossary \author{Autor name} \title{Document title} \date{\copyright\ \today}This setup works good for me.
Sorry for typos in the comments of the files. I just translated my comments from german and I'm too lazy to fix them g
2if you want to access directory on a network \href command will work please use slash not back slash even on windows systems:
don't forget to add . after the last slash if you are only directing your link to a directory not a pdf or a file.
\href{//netwrok/path-to-your-dir/.}{ex: click here}please look at this line of the documentation. see here
