On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:07PM +0100, Christian Schanz wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently finishing my master thesis with the help of LyX. I > have to use a special front page. The Layout for this front page was > given to me as a Word-Document. So I converted this to a PDF-File > with Openoffice.org. > > What is the best way to insert this PDF-File into my LyX Document? I > have attached a small LyX-Sample (I am using the koma classes) of how > I am doing it now. > > Currently I can only insert the page with about 80% of its size and > an additional page is inserted aber the front page. > A pdf file can be inserted as graphichs, provided that you're using pdflatex to generate a pdf document. That's the way I use to get xfig figures into pdf documents. You should probably not have any page breaks in the included pdf file, but I guess you can avoid that seeing that you make it yourself.
As for a "page picture" like this being too large - it will always be too large as it contains margins and everything. It is a whole page, which latex mistakenly tries to fit inside the text area. You can, however, tell latex not to do that by using some box commands. A "\raisebox" can contain stuff of any height, but you can tell latex that it counts as zero height. That way, it doesn't cause a page break. There are another box command where you can specify the width too. Using this you can force latex to believe a graphich takes no space at all - useful for backgrounds and possibly other cases. Helge Hafting
