On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, William R. Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried, and had some difficulties working with the interface. It is
> probably just differences in the way things are done, versus Ventura
> Publisher. So, acquiring new interface skills slows the process for
> getting the paper out.
>
> Right now, my big problem is scaling of a PDF graphic image. So
> far, I can get it either in a horribly small form, or it takes all of its
> own page, even if it is still in a horribly small form. I've been reading
> the graphics package but, haven't found good examples for what I
> want to do.
>
> I am not really interested in re-drawing the graphics for the paper.
> Since PDF importation works, I'd like to use it. Ventura will easily
> prepare the PDFs. What I need to understand is how to properly
> scale those images, and place them so that they are neighborly
> with regard to surrounding text and images.
>
> The current text of the tex file contains this snippet:
>
> \begin{figure}
> \centering
> \scalebox{1}{\includegraphics*[width=1\textwidth, totalheight=300pt]
> {figure1.pdf}}
> \label{Figure 1. An active sub-configuration s' which is identical to its
> state transition, F(s') = s', classifiable as passive or
> active, depending upon applied metric. No other figure shows signa, as
> this figure does.}
> \end{figure}
>
> Also, I don't understand why the text in the \label{} command does
> not show up as a caption. More newbie-itis I suppose.
The label only provides for an (internal) reference anchor that you
can use in an \ref{} command. The caption maybe (and usually is)
totally different from the label.
For figures I usually use labels like "fig:section-short-figure-name".
Inside a text you can reference it via
"\ref{fig:section-short-figure-name}". If you change the caption
afterwards, you don't need to change the label.
As LyX generates the LaTeX code for me, I am not sure how the exact
LaTeX syntax for scaling is. I usually use .svg-files that are
converted by LyX to cropped pdf files. LyX includes those pdf files
(with some meta information about the scaling) into the generated
LaTeX code while LaTeX makes sure everything is scaled right.
Please find two files attached:
1. figure.tex -- That's the LaTeX file LyX generates on the fly. Maybe
you can see how including figures and scaling works...
2. include-figure.pdf -- That's the included pdf file (that was
converted from an svg file)
If you want to compile the file to see, how the result looks like,
execute "pdflatex figure.tex" twice.
Dominik
figure.tex
Description: TeX document
included-figure.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
