Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ graphics path

[Alonso67231]

Hi,

I am writing a document but it contains lots of pictures and well, every time I want to insert one I have to set its path, \includegraphics{/users/mac/documents/article/picture/pic1.png} is there a way I can avoid doing this, but without taking out the folder? What I am trying to say is there a way to establish maybe in the preamble the path I want, so when I want to include a picture I just write down \includegraphics{pic1.png}.

[kaiserkarl13]

Yes: \graphicspath{{figures/}} will include (current-directory)/figures/*.{pdf,jpg,png} files without using the path.

If you need more than one directory, separate them like so: \graphicspath{{figures1/}{figures2/}}

[Alonso67231]

Thank you!!!

is there a way to do the same but with \input{}?

[kaiserkarl13]

Thank you!!!

is there a way to do the same but with \input{}?

Yes, but not within LaTeX itself. Each distribution may be slightly different, but on my system there is an environment variable called TEXINPUTS; setting it like this:

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export TEXINPUTS='.:/path/to/my/directory:'

will search, in order, the current directory ("."), then "/path/to/my/directory", then the default system directories. Don't leave off the trailing colon!