Additional Files not found when running pdflatex in PDFExporter about nbconvert HOT 6 OPEN

If you're customising PDF creation that much, it may be simpler to use --to latex and then build the PDF yourself using pdflatex.

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Yes, I use this way to fix it currently.

I did not do many customizations, I only use a customized template and a customized logo.

Any reasons that we have to use another temporary folder here? It breaks something that used to work.

I think the users should expect --to=pdf should be equivlent to --to=latex and then run pdflatex 3 times. But now they will behave differently.

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If you just want the PDF, you shouldn't get additional files written in your working directory by the implementation of how the PDF is generated. It's encapsulation - intermediate files are written somewhere where you don't see them. If you do want to modify things at that stage, e.g. to add another file at the latex level, it involves an extra step.

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I agree that it's better to run pdflatex in a temporary directory to the oldways generate intermidiate files and then clean them. It's quite annoying that even you run pdflatex with -output-directory, it still generates some files in the current folder in some cases, quite annoying.

I am just thinking if i could specify files that I would like to have along with pdflatex in the PDFExport config? So that these files will be copied to the new temp directory.

Do you think this makes sense?

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That sounds reasonable, though I haven't thought about it in much detail. Do you want to make a PR?

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Sure, let me try.

Many thanks.

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