I occasionally export README.mds to pdfs using grip then wkhtmltopdf. Recently I noticed that the generated pdf had links in markdown headings pointing to file locations in my own computer. I want either grip to stop generating the href within the exported markdown headings, or wkhtmltopdf to stop trying to be smart and setting the links relative to paths in my computer. How can I do this?
I checked manual pages for wkhtmltopdf and the help of grip, but didn't find a clear option to disable this.
For completeness: The page source shows for example:
<h1 id="user-content-heading-1"><a class="heading-link" href="#heading-1">Heading 1<span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></h1>
<p>Sample text1</p>
<h2 id="user-content-heading-2"><a class="heading-link" href="#heading-2">Heading 2<span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></h2>
<p>Sample text2</p>
These hrefs are then converted by wkhtmltopdf to a local file link, something like file://path/to/html.
Since I couldn't find an easy way to get a patched QT for wkhtmltopdf, I used awk to find local hrefs and delete them: awk '{sub(/ href="(#[^"]+)"/,""); print $0}'
Pass the output of grip through this and the problem is solved.