Support relative file URIs in hyperlinks when using CLI

For example when converting the following html to a pdf, it should be possible to make the hyperlink refer to the relative URI and not the absolute URI:

<a href="external-file.pdf">File</a>

What I get: “file://absolute-path/external-file.pdf” What I want: “external-file.pdf”

I have tried to change the --base-url argument, but it does not remove the absolute path if I set it to “”(empty).

So I looked it up in the code, and it is fairly easy to change, but I just wanted to make sure that there is interest in including this feature. If there are indeed interest I can make a pull request.

Relative file URIs are also what Prince outputs by default.

[W4RH4WK]

Alright. This is currently not high on my priority list. When I come around to this, I might checkout the code and see whether I can come up with something that is viable. I’ll open an issue / PR as necessary.

Thank you for the information.

[liZe]

However, style sheets are no longer found:

Of course, they’re not found because there’s no base-url.

Handling your use case is not as easy as it looks. Even if we add a new option (something like keep-local-anchors), I think that it will be really hard to find a behavior that satisfies everyone.

If you want to get this feature, you can open a new issue so that we can discuss your use case and find a way to solve it in a quite flexible way. I can’t promise that it will be implemented, as the current behavior is already quite complex (even if it’s easy to use in easy cases, as explained above).