You can't use pstricks with pdf. If you created it in dia, then you should save it as .eps. Then run epstopdf on it to get a .pdf, or you can use tex2pdf on your document, which will do the epstopdf automagically.
tex2pdf can be found at http://tex2pdf.berlois.de/ My thesis uses lots of dia pictures, but no pstricks, and it works great with pdf. Ben. On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:53:40AM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > I have a figure that I created in dia and exported to Pstricks tex format. > I then input the file in LyX. The postscript output is fine but when I > export to PDF using any of the three methods, the figure is missing. How do > I get the figure in the PDF file without using ps2pdf on the ps file > directly? I've heard of a similar 'pdftricks' package, but never used that. Andre'