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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:35:05+00:00

Consider the following snippet env = Environment() env.PDF(target=personal_statement.pdf, source=personal_statement.tex) env.Command(documents/personal_statement.pdf, personal_statement.pdf, Copy(‘$TARGET’, ‘$SOURCE’)) If

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Consider the following snippet

env = Environment()
env.PDF(target="personal_statement.pdf", source="personal_statement.tex")
env.Command("documents/personal_statement.pdf", "personal_statement.pdf", Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE'))

If I set target in env.PDF to “documents/personal_statement.pdf”, the LaTeX compilation happens in “documents/personal_statement.pdf”. I want only the final output, namely “personal_statement.pdf” to be present in “documents/personal_statement.pdf”.
Currently I am doing this in two steps. Step 1: compile the file, Step 2: move the resulting PDF to another directory.
Is there some way of accomplishing this in one step instead of using two steps?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The limitation of doing this in two steps is more related to pdflatex rather than SCons. pdflatex has the -output-directory option, but it will either write everything (including all of the temporary files) to that directory.

    While your example snippet may work, I believe the more typical approach is to use the Install builder.

    env = DefaultEnvironment()
dst = env.PDF("personal_statement.tex")
inst = env.Install("documents",dst)
Default(inst)
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