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farelatex
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where are compiled files in sharelatex?

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Hi everyone,
quick (and stupid?) question:
* in my main file, I use \includegraphics{myFigure.pdf}
* myFigure.pdf is produced by the compilation of myFigure.tex

This works perfectly well in any home-hosted latex environment, but I cannot figure out how to do this correctly with sharelatex. In fact, when I compile myFigure.tex, I can see the output but I cannot see it my folder (which just contains the source files main.tex and myFigure.tex, and never shows produced pdf files).
So it seems that I am obliged to do a stupid thing: download the produced myFigure.pdf, and upload it to my files... not quite an efficient way to do!

Does anyone know what I should do? something like \includegraphics{some_mysterious_path/myFigure.pdf}???

Thanks!

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EnriqueVilla
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Re: where are compiled files in sharelatex?

Post by EnriqueVilla »

You're not alone—ShareLaTeX (now Overleaf) doesn't show compiled files like PDFs in the file tree. The workaround is to compile myFigure.tex locally and upload the resulting myFigure.pdf manually, as you've been doing. Unfortunately, Overleaf doesn’t support automatic inter-file compilation like a local environment does. For now, managing intermediate files manually is the only way within that platform.
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