On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Bos wrote:
> How exactly do i use epsfig? Lyx will still try to convert them to pdf and
> fail unless i manually specify it should use epsfig with an ERT command for
> each figure?
>
> I did find some sort of solution: using acrobat distiller to convert the
> eps files to pdf files, then include those. Running distiller as a
> converter in Lyx seems to be a problem because it requires absolute path
> names and lyx does not give those when i use the $$o and $$i in the
> preferences.
>
> also imagemagick can be used to convert, but it'll create raster images,
> which look very ugly.
>
> It would be nice to find a solution for including both eps and pdf files in
> lyx that works regardless of which latex version i use...
>
> regards,
>
> Pieter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem with pdflatex and including a pdf file
I mostly use LaTeX, but sometimes LyX as well.
Usually you can include CTAN packages in the
LyX -> Document Settings -> Latex Preamble
e.g.
\usepackage{epsfig}
Sometimes LyX conflicts with certain packages.
