How do I ensure quarto places output file in a specific directory?

[rkaramc]

Description

Trying to generate a PDF document for download through Shiny for Python.

Sequence is:

1. Generate data in Shiny for Python
2. Generate tmpfile.qmd using Jinja in /tmp/tmpfolder
3. Generate tmpfile.pdf using Quarto
   • Call render() in quarto-dev/quarto-python with these args:
     • input=/tmp/tmpfolder/tmpfile.qmd (input)
     • output_format=pdf
     • output_file=os.path.basename(tmpfile.pdf) -- quarto complains if name contains path
     • output_dir=os.path.dirname(tmpfile.pdf) -- expecting file to be placed in this directory; see PR
     • execute=false -- didn't want to re-create the shiny app in qmd, data is already in qmd
4. Download /tmp/tmpfolder/tmpfile.pdf to client browser using Shiny for Python

Quarto (or pandoc?) places the output file in the current working directory. This happens to be the folder where I am running the shiny app (shiny run app:app).

How do I get quarto (or pandoc?) to use /tmp/tmpfolder? Or should I just move the file over using Python?

Thanks

[mcanouil]

Did you close (as duplicate) on purpose?