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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Question: View/Export PDF to Directory
From:       Richard Heck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2009-07-28 12:45:55
Message-ID: 4A6EF303.4010005 () bobjweil ! com
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On 07/28/2009 07:56 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> * Ken wrote, On 28/07/09 12:28:
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a simple question which I could not find an answer to online to
>> which I was hoping an experienced LyX user may know the solution.
>>
>> When I click on "File>  Export>  PDF (pdflatex)" the .pdf file gets
>> generated in the same folder as the .lyx file. Would it be possible to
>> have the .pdf file generated in a sub-directory of this folder--say, a
>> folder named "./pdf" or "./export"? (I like saving my figures in a
>> sub-directory and would similarly like the pdfs to automatically be
>> saved in a subfolder so that only .lyx files are in the main directory
>> for the project.
>>
>> Related to the above, when I click on "View>  PDF (pdflatex)" the .pdf
>> file gets generated in a temporary folder. Would if be possible to
>> have these generated in a sub-directory of the folder where the .lyx
>> file resides--say, a folder named "./draft"?  Would it be possible to
>> add a date prefix to the filename too? This would be so that I could
>> save pdf drafts of the file.
>>
>> How would I change the settings for these? (NB. I am a LyX 1.6.3 user
>> on Windows XP).
>>      
>
>
> I guess you look at your Lyx preferences File Handling, Converters.
>
> For "Latex (plain) ->  DVI" I guess you could change the converter from
> "latex" to "c:\bin\latex-dvi.bat $$i $$o"
>
> and your batch file could be:
>
> @echo off
> mkdir draft
> latex %1 %2
> move %2 draft
>
>
> Or something along those lines; and do likewise your your other converters
>
>    
The other possibility would be to define a copier for the relevant 
format. But this only works for export. The View> stuff will do its 
thing in the temporary directory. That's hardcoded.

Richard



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