Image paste: sub-folder tex files not working

[sbaier1]

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am using a project structure where chapters have sub-folders which are then \input from the root folder. I also set graphicspath and would like to use the image paste feature.

However, when using graphicspath, the paste feature will place the image relative to the current .tex file, while graphicspath will only search the root/ directory, leading to the resulting .tex file not compiling, because either paste should include the relative path to the current tex file in the path to the image or place the image in the root/ directory, as expected by pdftex.

In the screenshot you can see the result of configuring graphicspath as diag and pasting a diag.png into intro.tex. pdftex can't find the file because it's in a sub-folder.

When not using graphicspath the paste command will use no parent-path, leading to the same issue: the image is dropped into the folder of the tex file (which is not the tex-root, so pdftex doesn't see the image)

Describe the solution you'd like

Pasting the file should use the texpath / texroot path instead of the current directory of the file being edited

Describe alternatives you've considered

alternatively, pasting the file should append the current directory for the imagePath variable (or add another variable to use for this case)

[tecosaur]

Hi Simon, from what you have said, it sounds like you have set graphicspath, but it isn't being resolved correctly.

The determination of the appropriate graphicspath path isn't actually done by this extension, it actually comes from LaTeX Workshop via the getGraphicsPath() api function. If that is resolved incorrectly I'm afraid that's an issue with them not us 😞

[tecosaur]

Oh, what did you set graphicspath to by the way?