William R. Buckley wrote:
My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11 inches, though the actual image that I want is much smaller.
Right-click the image and use the Output Size portion of the dialog (Graphics tab) to scale the image. If you want to maintain the original aspect ratio, the easiest way is to scale it by a percentage (first box).
Also, if your image has white space that you would like to crop (for instance, if it's a modest sized graphic produced by a program that wrote it out to a full letter-size page), use the Clipping tab of the dialog, select "Clip to bounding box" and specify coordinates for the bottom left and top right corners of the display area.
What I notice, even in the imported .tex file for my paper, and when using LyX, (BTW, is it as in Lick?)
There's been extensive (and IMHO inconclusive) discussion of this, but "licks" seems to be the predominant choice (particularly since "leaks" is not a happy name for a computer program).
that the image takes a page on its own. Also, the box for the image in the LyX display says *error converting to loadable format* or some such - I can't really tell, as the type appears to be 4pt.
It's a variable font -- automatically maps to two points smaller than what your eyes can comfortably read.
The text following the graphic begins on the page following that which is used by the graphic. This is absolutely unacceptable, for the image takes only about one tenth the height of the page.
Are you saying that there is a bunch of wasted space below the image box, then a page break and more text, or are you saying that there is wasted space inside the image box (in which case you need to clip), or neither?
/Paul
