Graphics File in custom Folder not found

[Yashar]

Hi,

I'm using TeXnicCenter editor with MikTeX 2.9. I want to insert a PDF page, that I called "abc.pdf", in my PDF document. I opened a folder and called it "myfiles", this is where all my source files and "abc.pdf" are. The code related to "abc.pdf" is the following:

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\makeatletter
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{
  \setlength{\@tempdimc}{.06\paperheight}
  \setlength{\unitlength}{1pt}
  \put(\strip@pt\@tempdimb,\strip@pt\@tempdimc){
    \includegraphics{abc.pdf}
  }
}
\makeatother

But when I compile the document from Latex to PDF, "abc.pdf" does not appear in my document and I get the error message:

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Package pdftex.def error: file "abc.pdf" not found.

By the way, I am sure that there is nothing wrong with the code.
Thanks

[hugovdberg]

Could you please clarify your directory structure? Is your main tex-file in the same folder as the abc.pdf? From what folder are you calling latex?
Furthermore please provide a compilable minimal working example, this snippet requires packages that are not mentioned in your post.

[Yashar]

Ok, the document is my thesis. All chapters (tex files) of the thesis with the abc.pdf file are in one folder called "myfiles" and this folder is in My Documents. The main tex file is outside of this folder but still in My Documents.
The main tex file looks something like this:

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\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{anysize,fancyhdr,graphics}
\usepackage{csthesis}
\usepackage{makeidx}  
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}

\makeindex  
\makeatletter
\newcommand\otherlist{%
   \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\otherlistname
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\otherlistname}%
              {\MakeUppercase\otherlistname}}%
    \@starttoc{lop}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }
\newcommand*\l@program{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}
\newcounter{program}[chapter]
\renewcommand\theprogram{\thechapter.\@arabic\c@program}
\def\fps@program{tbp}
\def\ftype@program{3}
\def\ext@program{lop}
\def\fnum@program{\programname~\theprogram}
\newenvironment{program}
               {\@float{program}}
               {\end@float}
\newenvironment{program*}
               {\@dblfloat{program}}
               {\end@dblfloat}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}
\figurespagetrue
\tablespagetrue
\dedicationpagetrue
\quotationpagetrue
\include{myfiles/title}
\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{put whatever you like}
\mbox{}
\makeatletter
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{
            \setlength{\@tempdimc}{.06\paperheight}
            \setlength{\unitlength}{1pt}
           \put(\strip@pt\@tempdimb,\strip@pt\@tempdimc){
        \includegraphics{abc.pdf}
        }
}
\makeatother
\newpage

\include{myfiles/abs}
\include{myfiles/ack}
\lists
\include{myfiles/int}
\beforetext
\include{myfiles/intro}
\include{myfiles/chap1}
\include{myfiles/chap2}
\include{myfiles/chap3}
\include{myfiles/chap4}
\include{myfiles/chap5}
\include{myfiles/bib}
\end{document}

I downloaded the pdf page from internet and put it in that folder. So maybe that's not enough.

[hugovdberg]

Have you tried changing the path to myfiles/abc.pdf? As far as I can see it is included from your main file.

When you include the abc.pdf from a file in myfiles you still have to give the path relative to your main file since the content of that file is sort of on-the-fly copy-pasted into the main file.
Another option is the currfile package which allows you to also include files relative to the included file. So if you have three files (main.tex, myfiles/included.tex and myfiles/abc.pdf) you can refer in included.tex to just abc.pdf as long as you use the package currfile.

[cgnieder]

Thank you so much, I just changed \includegraphics{abc.pdf} to \includegraphics{myfiles/abc.pdf} and it worked! So simple! Thanks again, you are awesome!