Thanks a ton, Xie. Placing the file to be attached in the temp location helped.
Many thanks, Parul From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 May 2009 08:23 To: Parul Bali Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF Is it because lyx is trying to compile your file in a temp folder, but the file you want to attach was not copied over to the temp location, so a relative path (relative to the actual lyx file, not the temp file) doesn't work? I am also new to lyx, so lyxers, please correct me if I am wrong. Regards, Xie Chao On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Parul Bali <parul.sarasw...@gmail.com> wrote: To be more specific, it doesn’t seem to locate the file when I specify relative path in the Lyx file and try converting it to pdflatex. However, if the same lyx file is exported to tex format and then converted to pdflatex, it works great. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Parul From: Parul Bali [mailto:parul.sarasw...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 May 2009 22:30 To: 'Xie Chao' Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: Embedding documents/text files in PDF Many thanks to everyone for their responses. Xie, The `attachfile’ package you suggested works great if I export lyx file to tex format and then convert the tex file to pdflatex. However, if I try converting the lyx file to pdflatex directly, it throws me an error – “pdftex error: cannot open file for embedding” . It doesn’t seem to locate the file. Any pointers on how to resolve this would be very helpful. Thank you. Parul From: Xie Chao [mailto:xiech...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 May 2009 20:09 To: Parul Bali Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF I guess you are looking for this: http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/attachfile.pdf You can use this LaTeX package to attach files in your PDF. Regards, Xie Chao On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Parul Bali <parul.sarasw...@gmail.com> wrote: This may sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex? I have seen facility to attach documents to PDFs through Adobe writer. Is the same possible through Lyx/Latex? Thanks, Parul
