jobname cannot read paths

[Vayel]

pdflatex --jobname="/home/eleve/vincent.lefoulon/Documents/MPF/data/prod/filename" "/home/eleve/vincent.lefoulon/Documents/MPF/data/prod/filename.tex" does not work whereas pdflatex --jobname="filename" "/home/eleve/vincent.lefoulon/Documents/MPF/data/prod/filename.tex" does. But the second command saves the file in the working directory.

pdflatex --output-directory ~/Documents/MPF/data/prod "/home/eleve/vincent.lefoulon/Documents/MPF/data/prod/filename.tex" would do the job and save the file as ~/Documents/MPF/data/prod/filename.pdf

[Vayel]

Indeed, command = compiler + ' --output-directory="' + os.path.dirname(filename) + '" "' + filename + '.tex"' does the job with pdflatex.

[Vayel]

Or maybe using the cd command would do the job.

[jrast]

I also encountered some problems which might be related to this on a windows system. If I specified the filename as absolute path, the aux file was not found during the pdflatex run. My quick fix was this:

cur_path = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(filename))
doc.generate_pdf()
os.chdir(cur_path)

Maybe something like this should be included in generate_pdf.

[JelteF]

This should be fixed now