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When I try to embed a link to a local file in a LaTeX document via href{file://./path-to-file}{filename} it's typeset as a remote link, so http:// is prepended. How can I link to a local file, with a path relative to the location of the PDF produced?

you should be able to put the URL in the url tag:

url{file://./path-to-file}

pdflatex will (I believe) do the right thing, so it appears as a link in the resulting PDF. Whether your computer will know how to open the file is another question.

In Windows, this format worked for me with a network drive. Note the three backslashes at the front.

url{file:\zfs\server$\folder\sub_folder\title with spaces_and_underscores.pptx}

have you tried the include{}command? Like include{chapters/filename} you can include a .tex file. But don't write the .tex in the command. There is a page in the StackExchange network, which is only about TeX.

My base TeX project looks like this:

My projectname.tex

input{header}

begin{document}

hyphenation{}          % Words where LaTex-hyphenation fails 

maketitle          % Creates a page with the title

newpage

%  onehalfspacing              % This uses the package setspace

tableofcontents        % This creates the table of contents

include{chapter/acronym}   % Acronyms i use

include{chapter/chapter_1}

% ...

include{chapter/chapter_n}



include{chapter/glossary}  % My glossary

bibliography{bibliography/bibliography}  % Literature database

end{document}

A chapter_x.tex looks like this:

section[section short title]{section title}

And my header.tex looks like this:

%

% Document preamble

%

  documentclass[  %

    12pt,          % default font size

    a4paper,       % papersize

    twoside,       % printout will be two sided

%    txt,           % 

    ]{article}



  usepackage{ulem}          % all words have the underline at the same height uline statt underline



  usepackage[     %

    T1             % T1 font has european sigs

    ]{fontenc}



  usepackage[     %

    utf8           % Depends on the operating system

    ]{inputenc}    %



  usepackage[     %

    dvips,         %

    usenames       % allows to use blue yellow etc for font colors

    ]{color}



  usepackage{hyperref} % allows hyperlings in the table of contents



  usepackage{amsmath} % math stuff

  usepackage{amssymb}  % even more math stuff

  usepackage{extpfeil}

  usepackage[     % 

    style=long,   % 

%    toc=true,      % Boolean; if true the glossary will be shown in the table of contents

    hypertoc=true, % Hyperlinks in the glossary

    hyper=true,    % 

    number=none,   % 

    acronym=true   % 

    ]{glossary}

  setacronymnamefmt{gloshort}



  usepackage{makeidx}

%  usepackage{xymtexps}

%  usepackage{cite} % Used for citing

  usepackage{bibgerm}

  usepackage[numbers,square]{natbib}

  bibliographystyle{dinat}

  usepackage{textcomp} % Allows to set a ° for example

  usepackage[     % 

    german         % You may not need this *g*

    ]{babel}



  usepackage{setspace} % allows to easily change the space between lines

  usepackage{pstricks} % Used to create graphs

  usepackage{pst-plot} % Used to create graphs



  renewcommand{acronymname}{Abkürzungsverzeichnis} % Sets the name for acronymepage (I'm from germany)

  makeindex

  makeacronym

  makeglossary





  author{Autor name}

  title{Document title}

  date{copyright today}

This setup works good for me.

Sorry for typos in the comments of the files. I just translated my comments from german and I'm too lazy to fix them g

This worked for me:

• Put the myfile.png (or whatever extension) to the same folder as the .tex file

href{run:./myfile.png}{%

This is the link (Can be also a figure)

}

I for sure that this works:

The test plan is href{run:test_plan.pdf}{here}.

Where the file test_plan.pdf is in the same directory as the latex file that refers to it.