I need someone to verify an issue with PDF export and Images

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I need someone to verify an issue with PDF export and Images within HTML tables Problem Does your system render the Images when exported to PDF Mine does not I need to determine if its just my system or if this is a bug Setup 1 Create a new file in Dendron `test md` 2 Ensure you have an `assets images` folder in your vault 3 Add one image png to the `assets images` folder 4 Add the following HTML table to `test md` substituting `` accordingly ``` < table> ``` 5 Preview the file `CTRL+SHFT+v` ensure the image is rendered 6 Export the file as PDF `Right click on the preview Chrome Puppeteer PDF`

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kevins8 · Answer

this is probably how links are traversed in the resulting pdf does the pdf have a link associated with it even if its broken what does it link to can you verify the following 1 do images work if you use an absolute url to the image eg C foo bar 2 do images work if you use an absolute web url eg https foundation prod assetspublic53c57cce 8cpvgjldwysl s3 us west 2 amazonaws com assets logo 256 png

seadude · Answer

Checking now

seadude · Answer

RE 1 Absolute URLS only work in Preview The exported PDF remains blank RE 2 Web URLS only work in Preview The exported PDF remain blank

seadude · Answer

PDF has no body except the table The only link for this test is an image in `assets images` directory in my vault

kevins8 · Answer

got it and are you using markdown preview enhanced to do pdf export how does it compare it you use pandoc from the command line

seadude · Answer

Looks like I have both Dendron Markdown Preview Enhanced and the original MPE extensions installed Will check `pandoc cli` now

seadude · Answer

Hm running this command from `vault ` `pandoc dendron test md o dendron test pdf` resulted in the same unrendered PDF

seadude · Answer

I d like to know if you anyone else is seeing this behavior or if its isolated to my system

seadude · Answer

I have a hunch that installing a complete TeX system MiKTeX is somehow the culprit

kevins8 · Answer

hmm so i tested this out on my side with pandoc

kevins8 · Answer

the following both work ``` Image by absolute Url image by url https foundation prod assetspublic53c57cce 8cpvgjldwysl s3 us west 2 amazonaws com assets logo 256 png Image by relative url without forward slash image in assets assets images 2022 02 05 10 01 10 png ```

kevins8 · Answer

note that the relative link format is different from the default needed to get rid of the forward slash

seadude · Answer

Could you try embedding the image in the HTML table

seadude · Answer

Even with leaving off the leading ` ` from the Image link `assets images filename png` the PDF still does not render on my end

seadude · Answer

Tried forward backslashes between directories same result Though its slightly concerning that ALL of the following render the image in Preview stored in `vault images ` Relative image links with and without` ` thats weird to me Slashes in the image links going bothways backslash or forward slash

kevins8 · Answer

Looks like its a known limitation with pandoc see https tex stackexchange com questions 253262 pandoc markdown to pdf doesnt show images 253316 In order to get it to work you ll need to use md inside of html like below < table>

test assets images 2022 02 05 10 01 10 png < td>

seadude · Answer

Are you able to get that syntax to render in Preview

seadude · Answer

I see that Dendron is seeing down to the `vault assets images ` directory I can see the correct filename But when viewing in Preview nothing Same than with Chrome PDF I ll try with pandac

seadude · Answer

Well thats good Using the Markdown image link sandwitched by HTML table kind of worked It does not show up in Preview The image does render though minus all the table styling

seadude · Answer

Looks like there are `link attributes` inline CSS that can be appied to the image Hm

seadude · Answer

https pandoc org MANUAL html extension link attributes

seadude · Answer

https discordapp com channels 717965437182410783 735365126227493004 939609796951281664

seadude · Answer

Wahoo

seadude · Answer

My 1 2 day thesis on images ` ` is the Markdown PDF export ` ` is the `pandoc` export

kevins8 · Answer

i think most pdf conversion tools use pandoc under the hood