change --extract-media destination folder

[m-baumgartner]

The doc says the following :

--extract-media=DIR
Extract images and other media contained in a docx or epub container to the path DIR, creating it if necessary, and adjust the images references in the document so they point to the extracted files. This option only affects the docx and epub readers.

This works fine to me but it creates a /media folder in the specified DIR. How can I make pandoc puts the media file in a folder with a different name? eg. img

If this behaviour is not possible yet I think it this issue should be turned into a request.

Thanks

[jgm]

+++ m-baumgartner [Mar 03 15 09:06 ]:

The doc says the following :

--extract-media=DIR
Extract images and other media contained in a docx or epub container to the path DIR, creating it if necessary, and adjust the images references in the document so they point to the extracted files. This option only affects the docx and epub readers.

This works fine to me but it creates a /media folder in the specified DIR.

This is because the files live in a /media folder inside the docx container. The relative path inside the docx container is preserved. Remember, --extract-media also works with epub, so we don't want to make its behavior dependent on details of a particular container. (Indeed, in an epub there is no particular location for media.)

How can I make pandoc puts the media file in a folder with a different name? eg. img

pandoc my.docx --extract-media=DIR && mv DIR/media DIR/img

[m-baumgartner]

Thanks for your answer.
This partially work. The images are correctly moved to the defined DIR/img folder but the markdown links in the .md file still points to DIR/media instead of DIR/img.

[mpickering]

I'm not sure why we retain the media folder structure. I seem to remember there was some discussion about this when the feature was first implemented. @jkr do you remember why?

[jgm]

+++ Matthew Pickering [Mar 03 15 15:50 ]:

I'm not sure why we retain the media folder structure. I seem to remember there was some discussion about this when the feature was first implemented. @jkr do you remember why?

I thought the reason was the one I gave earlier in this thread.
--extract-media works the same for docx and epub. But in epub, at
least, there's no particular place media has to be. You could have all
images in img, or in the top level, or some in one subdirectory and
some in another. So the only sane approach is to keep the internal
directory structure intact.

[nkalvi]

Also, when you insert an image in current version of Word, it is saved under media folder in docx.

[mpickering]

Ah right, that makes sense.

[jgm]

+++ m-baumgartner [Mar 03 15 11:44 ]:

Thanks for your answer.
This partially work. The images are correctly moved to the defined
DIR/img folder but the markdown links in the .md file still points to
DIR/media instead of DIR/img.

Oh, yes. I'd forgotten about that part of it. You could use a filter to change the paths on images.