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Question

I have many documents that I want to be merged inside one document. It could be for example a kind of year recap, with many different sources that use the same preambule like lectures, labs, assignments, tests, ...

I tried to use the subfiles package but I can't compile the main document because of relative path inside sub documents:

File `image.png' not found

Is it possible to include graphics inside a subfile using a relative path ?

Minimal working example

I want a file sub.tex to be included inside a bigger document main.tex:

main.tex
sub/sub.tex
sub/image.png

The main document is not in the same directory as the sub document and is as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\begin{document}
  Main file
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

My sub file sub.tex includes an image image.png with a relative path:

\documentclass[../main.tex]{subfiles}

\begin{document}
  Sub file
  \includegraphics{image.png}
\end{document}

What I tried

Following a comment below, I have defined two commands Subfile and IncludeGraphics in main.tex and I use them in both files:

\usepackage{xstring}

\def\SubfilePath{}
\def\Subfile#1{%
    \def\SubfilePath{\StrBefore{#1}{/}/}%
    \subfile{#1}}

\newcommand\IncludeGraphics[2][]{%
  \includegraphics[#1]{\SubfilePath #2}}

Unfortunately, I'm not able to compile main.tex whereas everything is fine with sub.tex: 

Use of \Gin@ii doesn't match its definition
Faheem Mitha
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remjg
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    See my answer which is related to your question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64205/19356 – kiss my armpit Apr 19 '14 at 07:19
  • Interesting, but I still need to be able to compile my subfiles separately. Using you solution, I would therefore need to define a new SubFile command that calls subfile but stores the path somewhere for use inside a new IncludeGraphics command. – remjg Apr 19 '14 at 08:04

1 Answers1

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Package graphics provides \graphicspath that allows one to specify further directories for the search path of image files:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\begin{document}
  Main file

  \graphicspath{{sub/}}
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

Or \graphicspath can be called automatically for each \subfile:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\makeatletter
\let\org@subfile\subfile
\renewcommand*{\subfile}[1]{%
  \filename@parse{#1}% LaTeX's file name parser
  \expandafter
  \graphicspath\expandafter{\expandafter{\filename@area}}%
  \org@subfile{#1}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  Main file
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}
Faheem Mitha
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Heiko Oberdiek
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  • I forgot to mention among the hundred documents I'm considering merging in a few ones, I use images with the same name and sometimes different names for my image folders (I will, one day, standardize everything). So it is a valid answer, but I think it will not work for my use case. – remjg Apr 19 '14 at 09:31
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    @remjg: (a) \graphicspath can be changed for every document setting a different path. (b) \graphicspath can be limited by a group: \begingroup\graphicspath{{sub/}}\subfile{sub/sub.tex}\endgroup. – Heiko Oberdiek Apr 19 '14 at 10:01
  • Hoping this helps someone else here since it took a while to get it right. I had nested paths for my images, broken up by chapter. Nothing I was doing or finding online worked, until I did double /, e.g. \graphicspath{{"Sections//Data Exchange//Images//"}} – Tyler StandishMan Dec 14 '16 at 20:11