On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Philip Gröting wrote: > my idea of including some huge excel-sheets in a lyx-document looks as > follows: print from excel to a *.pdf-file, convert with acrobat each page to > *.eps, then include those in lyx. Unlike a *.ps I expected that that way > only the table would be the content of the *.eps-file, without all the > spacing around it, but I was wrong;-( > > Is there some way to either crop the *.eps-file to the "real" content so > that lyx is able to put its own margin around it, or to tell lyx to forget > about the margin (changing the bounding box values resulted in an error > message)?
ps2eps: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ps2eps.html (or ps2epsi). Another alternative is to install Adobe's Postscript printer driver on the Windows machine, which should allow generating EPS files directly.