diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3224b374..62f787fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Improvements
 
 - provide folding for list of sibling attributes by @apupier (#719)
+- support remote includes when exporting in PDF without additional setting configuration (#731)
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
diff --git a/src/commands/exportAsPDF.ts b/src/commands/exportAsPDF.ts
index 3b9a1d28..df11168e 100644
--- a/src/commands/exportAsPDF.ts
+++ b/src/commands/exportAsPDF.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ ${text}`
         `"${baseDirectory.replace('"', '\\"')}"`, // base directory
         '-o',
         `"${pdfOutputPath.replace('"', '\\"')}"`, // output file
+        '-a',
+        'allow-uri-read',
       ]
       const args = defaultArgs.concat(asciidoctorPdfCommandArgs)
         .concat(['-']) // read from stdin