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From: Nick Dokos <address@hidden>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:50:36 -0400
Subject: Re: [O] links to files in a zip archive and inline images in zip archive
John Kitchin <address@hidden> 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
This works if the unzipped directory images exists. In my case that won't be true.
What I am doing is creating a script that runs a python script, captures any images created by matplotlib, creates an org-file, then creates a zip-file that contains the org-file of the script, the output, and links to the figures, as well as the figures. The zip-file will then be submitted to a server, where the original images do not exist. I can unzip the zip-file on the server, and it works fine, but I was trying to avoid that.
j