Symbolic link does not work in \includegraphics

[Filip Verhaeghe]

Hi,

I can build Latex documents, and including (PDF) images using
\includegraphics works great when the image is directly available.
However, when I replace the image by a symbolic (soft) link to the
image, Latex cannot find the image. The same occurs when the image
included is part of a directory that is symbolically linked.

Is there something I could be doing wrong? Below a minimal example:

\documentclass[]{article}
\RequirePackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

% In the following link, Signatures is a symbolic link to another
directory,
% and blank.pdf is present in that directory. Result:
%
% package pdftex.def Error: File `../Links/Signatures/blank.pdf' not
found.

\includegraphics[height=1.3cm]{../Links/Signatures/blank.pdf}

% Doing the same as above with the same directories but replacing the
% symbolic linked directory with an actual copy of the directory works
perfectly;
% it finds the file and inserts it.

\end{document}

I'm using MacTex on Mac OS X Lion. Latex report the following
version:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
restricted \write18 enabled.

Best regards,
Filip

[Peter Flynn]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Filip Verhaeghe <f%unmann...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:

I can build Latex documents, and including (PDF) images using
\includegraphics works great when the image is directly available.
However, when I replace the image by a symbolic (soft) link to the
image, Latex cannot find the image. The same occurs when the image
included is part of a directory that is symbolically linked.

This seems to be a known behaviour:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12506/how-can-i-pass-a-shortcut-to-a-pdf-to-includegraphics
due to the way in which the graphicx package handles filenames.
 

Is there something I could be doing wrong?

Use the \graphicspath command instead, if you want to reference image files in other directories.

///Peter
 

[Filip Verhaeghe]

Thanks Peter. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. In your linked
webpage, it seems symlinks work in Linux but in my testing it does not
seem to work in Mac OS X (Lion).

Filip.

On Dec 20, 9:44 pm, Peter Flynn <anglebrac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Filip Verhaeghe <
>

> f%unmanned.a...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
> > I can build Latex documents, and including (PDF) images using
> > \includegraphics works great when the image is directly available.
> > However, when I replace the image by a symbolic (soft) link to the
> > image, Latex cannot find the image. The same occurs when the image
> > included is part of a directory that is symbolically linked.
>

> This seems to be a known behaviour:http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12506/how-can-i-pass-a-shortcu...

[Peter Flynn]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Filip Verhaeghe <f%unmann...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:

Thanks Peter. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. In your linked
webpage, it seems symlinks work in Linux but in my testing it does not
seem to work in Mac OS X (Lion).

Very odd.