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I have a source file called 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex and I'd like to create a PDF file from it called only Myfilename.pdf.

Can this be configured from within the .tex file itself?

(It seems to be possible with 

pdflatex -jobname=Myfilename.tex 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex

However, as many different files are concerned, It would be easier to have an option like output=Myfilename in the LaTeX source code.)

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I'm used to making Makefile scripts to generate my PDFs. If that is your case, too, it's easy to enough to either rename the .tex or the .pdf in the process. – ℝaphink May 27 '11 at 7:23
@Raphink: Thanks, that Makefile approach sounds like a good workaround, however I did not use it yet. As I'm using GUI editors it is quite easy to use the keyboard shortcut to run pdflatex. – Martin May 27 '11 at 7:28

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I'm afraid you cannot alter the output name from within the LaTeX source: the \jobname primitive can be read but not altered. You can arrange two-file solutions which allow one LaTeX file to 'call' another, but I am not sure that will answer your problem here.

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Just found this question and I have one more remark: obviously, you can do \def\jobname{whatever}, and if you do it early enough, it will affect the names of the .aux, .toc etc. files - but not the pdf. – mbork Jul 31 '11 at 20:40

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