Question

I’ve tried the following syntax:

[[folder/figure.svg]]

along with org-export-as-html.

This apparently does not work – just adds a reference … in the html file.

Answer 1

I had to test this a couple times to clarify exactly what the issue appeared to be. The image exports successfully when I use the following link:

Current folder is ~/test/
[[./img/Bitmap.svg]]
[[./Bitmap.svg]]
[[~/test/Bitmap.svg]]

However it fails with:

Current folder is ~/test/
[[img/Bitmap.svg]]
[[Bitmap.svg]]

I suspect it is that Org has to find where on the path the image is, the ./ tells it to look from current location, while ~/ can be properly expanded by the shell to give the current directory.

If you prefix ./ to your images they should export correctly.