I just installed a fresh copy of Pencil 1.2

I installed "HTML Template with thumbnails using JQuery" to test HTML export. (Standalone)

The HTML export looked file when seen on local machine - but failed to load images when uploaded to server. (Both seen in Firefox 3.6)

When inspecting the HTML source I saw the image URLs to be incorrect: "pages%5Cplugin_manager_plugins.png" where it should be: "pages/plugin_manager_plugins.png"

The problem is that the forward slash / was URL encoded. I don't know why it worked when viewed locally, but I had to clean up all URL references in order for the HTML output to properly work online.

I can confirm this also applies in the GUI 800*580 template as well and it makes it hard to create a shared demo.

This corrects it for web export, but will probably screw ODT (probably should override it in WebPageExporter.js):

BaseRasterizedExporter.js: line 27 attr.nodeValue = path.replace(DirIO.sep,"/");

The basic problem is that the image path is "pages\image.png" which gets converted to %5C.

Any modern Browser should be able to translate a "/" into a "\" (or, as it is, %2C into %5C) if needed locally in a MS environment.

On the other hand, things won't work vice versa (if you have %5C, it won't translate back to %2C if you need it online or on a Mac/Linux machine).

Suggestion: Why not make "\" the default on html export, and maybe make the other way optional?

Thank you for your bugfix on comment 2, Neil. It works well.

I guess my question is relatively stupid, but how do I apply this bug fix? I applied the change to the js, with no effect... but I get the feeling the whole Pencil/app directory is not being used when I'm exporting a document. A renamed a directory for fun and the export was still working. I'm on Windows and I tried with Pencil as a Firefox plugin and stand alone program, and I still have the problem. Any idea?

You will first have to extract the .xpi file (it is in reality just a .zip file). Then you edit BaseRasterizedExporter.js. After that, you zip the entire folder, change the file ending to .xpi and overwrite your original C:\users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\extensions\pencil@evolus.vn.xpi (This is the path for Windows Vista/7, it is slightly different for XP).

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Please answer!!!

Why not make "\" the default on html export, and maybe make the other way optional?

Solution from #2 comment doesnt work for me!!!