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.

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