diff --git a/addon/flamenco/job_types_propgroup.py b/addon/flamenco/job_types_propgroup.py
index f3370e36..56732462 100644
--- a/addon/flamenco/job_types_propgroup.py
+++ b/addon/flamenco/job_types_propgroup.py
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ class JobTypePropertyGroup:
         label: str = self.bl_rna.properties[setting_key].name  # type: ignore
         return label
 
+    def locals(self, context: bpy.types.Context) -> dict[str, object]:
+        """Return the local variables for job type evaluation."""
+        return {
+            "bpy": bpy,
+            "C": context,
+            "jobname": context.scene.flamenco_job_name,
+            "Path": Path,
+            "abspath": self.abspath,
+            "last_n_dir_parts": self.last_n_dir_parts,
+            "settings": self,
+        }
+
     def eval_and_assign(
         self,
         context: bpy.types.Context,
@@ -103,14 +115,7 @@ class JobTypePropertyGroup:
     ) -> Any:
         """Evaluate `setting_eval` and return the result."""
 
-        eval_locals = {
-            "bpy": bpy,
-            "C": context,
-            "jobname": context.scene.flamenco_job_name,
-            "Path": Path,
-            "last_n_dir_parts": self.last_n_dir_parts,
-            "settings": self,
-        }
+        eval_locals = self.locals(context)
         try:
             value = eval(setting_eval, {}, eval_locals)
         except Exception as ex:
@@ -200,6 +205,15 @@ class JobTypePropertyGroup:
         subset = Path(*dirpath.parts[-n:])
         return subset
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def abspath(filepath: Union[str, Path]) -> Path:
+        """Return the filepath as absolute path."""
+
+        # This changes blendfile-relative paths to absolute.
+        # It does not resolve `..` entries, though.
+        abs_unclean = Path(bpy.path.abspath(str(filepath)))
+        return bpathlib.make_absolute(abs_unclean)
+
 
 # Mapping from AvailableJobType.setting.type to a callable that converts a value
 # to the appropriate type. This is necessary due to the ambiguity between floats
diff --git a/internal/manager/job_compilers/scripts/simple_blender_render.js b/internal/manager/job_compilers/scripts/simple_blender_render.js
index 42aa3418..08259437 100644
--- a/internal/manager/job_compilers/scripts/simple_blender_render.js
+++ b/internal/manager/job_compilers/scripts/simple_blender_render.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const JOB_TYPE = {
         { key: "add_path_components", type: "int32", required: true, default: 0, propargs: {min: 0, max: 32}, visible: "submission",
           description: "Number of path components of the current blend file to use in the render output path"},
         { key: "render_output_path", type: "string", subtype: "file_path", editable: false,
-          eval: "str(Path(bpy.path.abspath(settings.render_output_root), last_n_dir_parts(settings.add_path_components), jobname, '{timestamp}', '######'))",
+          eval: "str(Path(abspath(settings.render_output_root), last_n_dir_parts(settings.add_path_components), jobname, '{timestamp}', '######'))",
           description: "Final file path of where render output will be saved"},
 
         // Automatically evaluated settings:
diff --git a/web/project-website/content/usage/job-types/_index.md b/web/project-website/content/usage/job-types/_index.md
index 52eea156..92cbcab2 100644
--- a/web/project-website/content/usage/job-types/_index.md
+++ b/web/project-website/content/usage/job-types/_index.md
@@ -117,13 +117,14 @@ following names:
   directory path manipulation. Note that this does *not* understand Blender's
   `//` prefix for blendfile-relative paths. Use `bpy.path.abspath()` to turn
   those into an absolute path if necessary.
+- `abspath(path: str | Path) -> Path`: a function that returns the given path as
+  absolute path. Unlike `bpy.path.abspath()` this also resolves `..` entries.
 - `last_n_dir_parts(n, Optional[file_path])`: a function that returns the last
   `n` directory parts of some file's path. For example,
   `last_n_dir_parts(2, '/complex/path/to/a/file.blend')` will return `to/a`, as
   those are the last `2` components of the directory. If `file_path` is
   ommitted, it uses the current blend file, i.e. `bpy.data.filepath`.
 
-
 [bpy]: https://docs.blender.org/api/master/
 [context]: https://docs.blender.org/api/master/bpy.context.html
 [pathlib]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html