I am using a lot of png/jpg images in a document, so I decided to use pdfLaTeX. The main issue of this approach is that PSTricks is not directly supported. Since I found a package (auto-pst-pdf) supposed to solve this, I gave it a go. But I found a problem.
Let's take a simple example:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[pdf]{pstricks}
\usepackage[on]{auto-pst-pdf}
\begin{document}
This is a test file
\newline
\newline
\begin{pspicture}(-5.25,-5.25)(5.25,5.25)
\pscircle*[linecolor=cyan]{5}
\psgrid[subgriddiv=0,gridcolor=lightgray,gridlabels=0pt]
\Huge\sffamily\bfseries
\rput(-4.5,4.5){A} \rput(4.5,4.5){B}
\rput(-4.5,-4.5){C}\rput(4.5,-4.5){D}
\rput(0,0){auto-pst-pdf}
\rmfamily
\rput(0,-3.8){PSTricks}
\rput(0,3.8){\LaTeX}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}
If we try to compile this file in its folder (with output folder = build
):
pdflatex -shell-escape -output-directory=build test.tex
Everything works well, and the resulting PDF is moved to result
. Now, let's imagine that we have a folder with the following structure:
-- root (Makefile)
|___ src (tex files)
|___ build (everything generated by pdfLaTeX)
If we call make from the root folder, the following command will be executed:
pdflatex -shell-escape -output-directory=build src/test.tex
Even though the only difference is the location of the tex file, this does not work: the temporary image files (dvi, ps, pdf) are not compiled, and the resulting document does not get its figure.
I have tried using some auto-pst-pdf options:
\usepackage[on,
latex={-out-directory=. -jobname=test-pics test.tex},
dvips={-o test-pics.ps test-pics.dvi},
pspdf={-dAutoRotatePages=/None test-pics.ps test-pics.pdf},
crop=off
]{auto-pst-pdf}
But this does not work so far, and I do not know if that is the right way to do this. Has anyone faced any similar problem, and if yes, how did you solve it?