christiaan pauw schrieb:
Thanks, I'll try using a eps image. The reason I used ps2pdf is because the resulting pdf file is much smaller (the pdflatex file is 27M for a 50 page document). Why is there such a big difference between the size of the pdf files?
This is because PDF can only embed JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF images. When you used other image formats, they needs to be converted to one of these formats. (LyX does this for you in the background.) Postscript and DVI can only embed EPS images. So it seems that in your case the images converted to EPS (because you are using ps2pdf) are much smaller than the original images. So either your original images are much too big. This is the case when you have an image with e.g. 1280x1024. This is much too wide for an A4 paper. Therefore it is shrinked to fit the page width. While the conversion, the image is converted in this shrinked size.
Nevertheless I prefer pdflatex, because it has many advantages against the ps2pdf method like PDF support options you find in the document settings of your LyX file.
regards Uwe
