Re: links to files in a zip archive and inline images in zip archive

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I am trying to make an org-mode zip archive. The idea is basically to
> zip up the org-file, and the images it might refer to. What I would
> really like is to be able to open the zip-file in emacs, and have the
> images shown inline like they are when the archive is expanded.
>
> I had no problem making the zip archive, and it opens fine in emacs. I
> can read the org file fine, but there are no inline images, and the
> links to the images do not work.
>
> It might be ok if the links in the org-file would open the images, but
> they do not do that either (I get cannot display image: cannot
> determine image type and a blank screen).
>
> Is this idea way off base? or is there a way to get it to work? I do
> not have to stick with zip archives if another format would work well.
>
My guess is that your links use absolute paths. I had no problem doing
this with a file using relative paths and the following directory structure:

     tmp -- kitchin.org
         `- images -- foo.png

kitchin.org looks like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+STARTUP: inlineimages

* foo

This  [[file:images/foo.png]] is an inline image.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and I zipped like this:

$ zip kitchin.zip kitchin.org images

I can then open the zip file, and open kitchin.org inside the zip file
with the inline image showing.
-- 
Nick