Bug: images be wilding

[resistorsoftware]

Ruby 3.4.1
Mac Arm processor M1
MacOS 15.2

kitabu check

Prince XML: Converts HTML files into PDF files.
Installed.

Calibre's ebook-convert: Converts ePub e-books into .mobi files.
Not installed.

So I use Prince to generate e-books and it always seems to just work. However I dropped this simple Markdown and Kitabu was directed to make a pdf and it flopped!

![my image](../images/foo.png)

produced in my document that line as text, ie) [my image](../images/foo.png)

So no exclamation mark and no image. The imaged shows up perfect in my editor, neovim hosted in kitty terminal, so I know the path to the image is fine, and the image rendered just fine. What is up with trying to render an image using markdown!!

I am forgetting how Kitabu renders markdown, so it is probably a silly oversight on my part. Can anyone remind me of what I might be needing to get image rendering from markdown converted properly in my Kitabu chain!

Thanks

[fnando]

Hey! Can you upload a zip with the book you're trying out? I just did kitabu new test, then exported files with kitabu export, and everything rendered as expected, including images.

[resistorsoftware]

The only way I got it to work was by using the entire path to the image.

### Some Heading

![image](/Users/beer/Documents/Workspace/2025/Proposals/assets/images/apps.png)

<img src="../images/apps.png" alt="Description" style="max-height: 100vh"/>

![image](../images/apps.png)

![image](../assets/apps.png)

So in the first image, it rendered fine in an export.
The second explicit HTML tag rendered fine in an export.
The third example, referencing the image in the images directory rendered [image](../images/apps.png) so I note that it is the explicit command echoed back less the exclamation.
The fourth example, referencing the image in the assets directory rendered [image](../assets/apps.png) so I note that it is the explicit command echoed back less the exclamation.

So in my experiments, all I know is, the markdown image tag only ever worked for me in a Kitabu export to PDF when I used the entire path.