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Trouble creating local build of playground due to absolute paths to logo.pdf and opensans.ttf
Hi,
Apologies if this is just caused by my own error or unfamiliarity with npm, but when trying to recreate the Playground locally I ran into a bunch of problems... and then sorted them out by making a very small change to the code.
I kept getting 404s and failed fetch requests on "logo.pdf" and "opensans.ttf" until I opened playground.js and saw that on lines 100-103 the paths are absolute:
const fixtrues = [ fetch('/logo.pdf'), fetch('/opensans.ttf'), ]
So I changed them to relative paths:
const fixtrues = [ fetch('./logo.pdf'), fetch('./opensans.ttf'), ]
...and after repeating the npm build process it worked fine. I think this isn't a problem on http://pdfjs.rkusa.st/ because there it is in a root directory, but when running it in a folder it causes an error that stops the whole thing from working. Again, sorry if this is the kind of thing that doesn't present a problem for more experienced developers, but I in my noob-ness got really hung up on it for a while before I discovered the cause.
You are right, fetching the assets from root will cause an error when opening the playground from e.g. a file:///
path. When I test the playground locally I usually do the following:
cd playground/public
python3 -m http.server