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Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2012/08/21 12:35

When I drag / drop from file location to IQ, IQ creates a link type "lnk" which doesn't / won't associate to file type (default = windows photo viewer) so nothing happens. Any ideas anyone? Thanks.

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Here, pngs open as expected in the photo viewer.

I even changed the default handler (as I dont normally use the photo viewer) and that works now

Do pngs open properly from explorer there?

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Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

Yes, png opens from explorer. What are your settings in link dialog? Can you clip & insert in your answer. Thanks, Tom.

Here's my settings:

does it work if you add it as a file - as opposed to creating the shortcut?

EDIT / that would indicate a problem with the shortcuts somehow -

if you find the actual shortcut in the IQ folder, you could check that out - see if it works directly.

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Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

Tom, thanks for reply.

I can set up as a static hyperlink so it shows up in HTML pane just fine

I can set it up so png appears as an item in the outline

so it appears to be a linking problem which I can't figure out.

I'm not sure what you mean by set it up as a file as opposed to a shortcut

Here's what I get when I duplicate your set up & try any other combo except static / HTML pane

This looks like it might be a problem with file type associations, so I checked that & it's ok

Yeah,

it looks like the problem is with the .lnk extension. I've no idea how shortcut files work...

When I say save png-item-link as a file, I mean untick the option in top right of my screenshot above.

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Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

That's what I thought you meant. And yes, that works -- as I can add the file as an item in the outline but that's not very practical in this case.

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That's what I thought you meant. And yes, that works -- as I can add the file as an item in the outline but that's not very practical in this case.

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I have no experience with linking in the html pane...

Pierre's back next week ;-)

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Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

If you uncheck "create shortcut" does it work correctly ?

Windows handles de-referencing shortcuts to open the corresponding file automatically.

What is the full path of the .png file ?

FWIW he does say it works in the outline if "create shortcut" deselected.

Submitted by Tom on Wed, 2012-08-22 17:08.
When I say save png-item-link as a file, I mean untick the option in top right of my screenshot above.

Submitted by jan_rifkinson on Wed, 2012-08-22 19:56.
... yes, that works -- as I can add the file as an item in the outline but that's not very practical in this case.

How to create link to a "png" type file - Is it possible?

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