On Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 19:02:16 UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:

Here's the root of the issue:

% pandoc -t native
![moon](La Lune.jpg)
[ Para
[ Image
( "" , [] , [] ) [ Str "moon" ] ( "La%20Lune.jpg" , "fig:" )
]
]

As you see, the markdown reader converts the space to %20 in the
image path. This is fine for HTML but when pandoc tries to
create a PDF, it causes problems. I need to explore further,
but I'm convinced that's it, because if you try `-f native`
with the above, it fails, but replacing %20 with a space,
it then succeeds.

"jmuc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" <jmuc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Here's an example:
>
> ```
> ~/Pictures/ > pandoc -o Downloads/test.pdf -f markdown
> ![one](file name.jpg)
> Error producing PDF.
> ! Package pdftex.def Error: File
> `/private/var/folders/yl/xd3tsv2x1959s23ts4k1q
> t9m0000gr/T/tex2pdf.-a4cc305331e7cf2c/file name.jpg' not found: using draft
> set
> ting.
>
> See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.
> Type H <return> for immediate help.
> ...
>
> l.70 ...T/tex2pdf.-a4cc305331e7cf2c/file name.jpg}
> ```
>
> If I use the full path to the file, it works fine.
> On Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 18:13:33 UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>>
>> What exactly do you mean when you say "generate errors"?
>>
>> "jmuc...@gmail.com" <jmuc...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I've just noticed the
>> spaces
>> > in image filenames generate errors unless they occur with a full path.
>> For
>> > example:
>> >
>> > This works:
>> >
>> > `![One image](/Users/username/Pictures/file name.jpg)`
>> >
>> > This doesn't:
>> >
>> > `![Another image](file name.jpg)`
>> >
>> > Nor does:
>> >
>> > `![A third image](./file name.jpg)`
>> >
>> > I've tried quoting the filename, too.
>> >
>> > The command I'm using is the following from the directory where the
>> files
>> > live:
>> >
>> > `pandoc -o test.pdf test.md -f markdown`
>> >
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