Thanks for the reply Herbert. To answer your question... > this is done by the installtion and it is saved in > /texmf/pdftex/config >
I found pdftex.cfg. It is there under /usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg > > %> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf > > what is this? Are you running pdflatex on a pdf > file??? > Perhaps I've revealed my ignorance there and running pdflatex on the .pdf did not make sense. I wasn't really sure what I was doing, but since \usepackage{pdfpages} wasn't working for me from within LyX, I decided to try pdfnup on the command line. When I ran the pdfnup script on my .pdf, it also failed. When I checked the log file generated, I saw that it failed at the step pdflatex. So (not really comprehending everything that was going on in pdfnup script) I decided to run pdflatex on my .pdf file to see what would happen from the command line. Like I said, maybe that makes no sense, but that was my thinking there. This is what pdfnup gives me.... pdf_nup> ./pdfnup temppdffile.pdf This is pdfnup version 0.8 Temporary LaTeX file for this job is /u/reyes/tmp/-.tex Calling pdflatex... Failed: output file not written And this is the .log file from this conversion This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=pdflatex 2003.4.10) 15 JAN 2004 15:26 **temppdffile.pdf (./temppdffile.pdf Error: pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus