Viewing non-pdf links

I get the impression from browsing around that non-pdf files, such as JPG, ought to open in their associated application. Is that the case and if so, why can't I get it to work here?
Thanks for any help.

Up to now I've had an error message: "Could not open the file ...", where the path given is relative beginning with ./ The path works in the original OpenOffice document and I re-exported (relative path option set) to make sure. In OO the links begin "file:///".
I've just noticed that some links to JPG work (sorry, there are so many and I just didn't find any before) but I can't see any difference in the way they're set up in OO.
The ones that work show alt-text when you hover on them, the ones that work don't (but neither do links to PDF which do work).
There's something I'm not fully appreciating here, I think

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