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I have several figures compiled independently into several pdf files. Rubber works great in their compilation. The main document is compiling great with rubber as well.

How can I add dependency (if figure pdf is outdated then recompile) into Rubber?

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Do you mean that you use rubber + pdflatex to compile figure1.tex -> figure1.pdf, and then you have main.tex which uses \includegraphics{figure1.pdf}? – Jukka Suomela Aug 21 '10 at 13:11
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And in that case, a quick'n'dirty solution would be to simply run rubber -Wall figure*.tex && rubber -Wall main.tex. It doesn't re-compile figures if they are already up-to-date. You can write a one-line shell script that does that for you. For a better solution, I'd like to read the manual, but someone has broken the rubber home page, and I can't find documentation any more... – Jukka Suomela Aug 21 '10 at 13:18
That's exactly what I need. – Łukasz Lew Aug 21 '10 at 14:12
Instead of a shell script Makefile would be better. But I thought that rubber intends to replace it! – Łukasz Lew Aug 21 '10 at 14:15

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I think you should be able to add something like this in your rules.ini file (I haven't tested this; read the manual and see the predefined examples in rules.ini):

[textopdf]
target = (.*)\.pdf
source = \1.tex
cost = 1
rule = shell
command = rubber -Wall $source
message = converting $source to PDF

This assumes that running rubber -Wall figure1.tex actually generates figure1.pdf.

Note that you don't need to manipulate the "global" share/rubber/rules.ini file; it should be possible to add a directive like % rubber: rules myrules.ini in your main.tex, and then put the above rule in myrules.ini. (Again, I haven't tested this.)

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Use just the rubber directive watch, by adding just the following line to your latex document:

% rubber: watch figure1.pdf

See rubber man page with

man rubber

to learn everything about rubber directives.

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A late welcome to tex.sx! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, then they're marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "101010" on it). – Hendrik Vogt Feb 18 '11 at 10:35

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