From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Bug: File Links [6.33x] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:25 -0400 Message-ID: <32248.1316729245@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <67E367D17F254913983BFF53A99F16D1@psfc371c51d8ff> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6rQc-0004AL-59 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6rQZ-0004g8-QH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:34 -0400 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:22059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6rQZ-0004fV-Kq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from "Edward N. Lewis" of "Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:27:40 EDT." <67E367D17F254913983BFF53A99F16D1@psfc371c51d8ff> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Edward N. Lewis" Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Edward N. Lewis wrote: > Links to external pdf files do not work in org-mode. Links do not export properly > into PDF files. Links to web addresses and other file types such as text files work fine, however. > > To reproduce: create a link in your org file in any form, > e.g. [[file:/full_path/whatever.pdf]], > [[file:/full_path/whatever.pdf][Label for file]], file:whatever.pdf. > > 1) The link will not work from within org-mode. > 2) The link will not be properly formatted when viewed in a PDF viewer > such as Adobe Acrobat Professional. To make the link work, the link's > properties have to be manually edited from within Adobe Acrobat/ > > Emacs : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4) > of 2011-05-23 on x86-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org > Package: Org-mode version 6.33x > I cannot reproduce this with Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.311.g0c099), so I'd suspect your 6.33 (which is quite old, but unfortunately still ships with older versions of emacs). If you are at all serious about using org-mode, you probably need to install the 7.7 release (or if you are willing to live on the edge, clone the git repository and enjoy all the up-to-date features - and some breakages, but ime, breakages get fixed quickly). Nick