On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Manuel Amador <amador.manuel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everybody,

I am running into the following issue.

I would like to export certain subtrees of an org file to a particular
directory. I set the export property as follows:

* Test 1
:PROPERTIES:
:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: some_directory/some_name
:END:

When I try exporting the above subtree as a pdf (say for example, by running
C-c C-e 1 d), the .tex file is created in the appropriate target directory, but
the .pdf file is created in the current directory (while emacs mistakenly
reports that the pdf was not created). Is there a way to get this to work
correctly?

The following patch solves this problem. Actually html export has no issues with this.

* lisp/org-latex.el:

+ Modify the custom variable org-latex-to-pdf-process to include -output-directory option for

the command pdflatex.

+ org-export-as-pdf()

Give some respect to EXPORT_FILE_NAME if it has path elements.

Modified some of the messages to include the file name.

Thanks and Regards

Noorul