Re: size of table and pictures and files in .lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dominique Bünzli wrote:
Hello,
I have a big table and a big picture (inserted via float --> figure and 
then --> graphics) . The problem is that they are getting out of the 
page when I export to pdf. LyX isn't resizing automatically the 
table/picture so that it displays in whole in my output. Is there a way 
to do that ?

If you right click the graphic in LyX, you can set the width or height 
(or both) to either fixed sizes or a percentage of some page measure.  I 
usually use 'text%' (a percentage of the text area dimensions), but you 
might want 'page%'.  You can set just one of width and height and tell 
LyX to maintain the aspect ratio.

I don't know an easy way to scale tables, other than to highlight the 
whole table and change the font size to something smaller.  There's also 
the longtable option, which stretches a table across multiple pages.

The other question I have is how do you embed the pictures into the lyx 
file ? Is it possible or do you have to keep the pictures apart from the 
lyx file ?


The only way I know to insert a picture in a LyX file so that it is 
literally part of the LyX file is to draw it in ERT (using, say, pgf). 
If the picture is a binary file, it has to be separate.  (LyX docs are 
text files.)

/Paul