General ⇒ About generating pdf with pdflatex

[cbustaam]

Hi all,
I'm trying to compile a tex file with pdflatex outside the directory in which the tex is. This is,

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pdflatex folder\myfile

I have some pdf pictures in folder included in myfile.tex through \includegraphics{picure.pdf}. When I run pdflatex says that it's not possible to find picture.pdf.

How can I compile myfile.tex outside folder?

Bests

[frabjous]

Why don't you want to run pdflatex in the folder in question?

[cbustaam]

Because this folder is created by another application with a name that depends from an internal command. After, I run pdflatex from within this application invoking the folder name with the application internal command.

[frabjous]

Sorry, but I didn't really follow that.

Do you mean that you're calling pdflatex within a script or batch file, where $foldername is a variable? I still don't see the problem.

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cd $foldername
pdflatex $file