On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Bos wrote: > How exactly do i use epsfig? Lyx will still try to convert them to pdf and > fail unless i manually specify it should use epsfig with an ERT command for > each figure? > > I did find some sort of solution: using acrobat distiller to convert the > eps files to pdf files, then include those. Running distiller as a > converter in Lyx seems to be a problem because it requires absolute path > names and lyx does not give those when i use the $$o and $$i in the > preferences. > > also imagemagick can be used to convert, but it'll create raster images, > which look very ugly. > > It would be nice to find a solution for including both eps and pdf files in > lyx that works regardless of which latex version i use... > > regards, > > Pieter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:33 PM > Subject: Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file
I mostly use LaTeX, but sometimes LyX as well. Usually you can include CTAN packages in the LyX -> Document Settings -> Latex Preamble e.g. \usepackage{epsfig} Sometimes LyX conflicts with certain packages.