On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, Andrea wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> thanks for org mode, it is great!
> I am having a problem with the latest version of org: I really would
> like to be able to export buffers in a different directory, and so far I
> used the :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: property for this use case.
>
> However, after upgrading to the latest release it seems that something
> does not work anymore: the pdf file is generated but the output
> directory is ignored!
>
> You could reproduce this by:

I cannot reproduce this. I get files /tmp/bla.pdf /tmp/bla.tex and my
reader opens the former file.

FWIW, there have been some discussions in recent months about pdf export.

On my macbook, C-h v org-latex-pdf-process RET gives:

org-latex-pdf-process is a variable defined in ‘ox-latex.el’.
Its value is ("latexmk -g -pdf -pdflatex=\"%latex\" -outdir=%o %f")
Original value was
("%latex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f" "%latex 
-interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f" "%latex -interaction 
nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")

[...]

which works for macOS Sierra. See the full docstring for details.

IIRC, the original value does not work for me to export to another
directory.

HTH,

Chuck