On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:30:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Open the file from within LyX may be better??
Yes. Try bool readBB(string const & file) { ifstream is(file.c_str()); while (is) { string s; is >> s; if (s == "%%BoundingBox:") { double a, b, c, d; is >> a >> b >> c >> d; if (is) { cout << "BB is: " << a << ' ' << b << ' ' << c << ' ' << d << endl; return true; } } } return false; } for starters. Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]