"Stephan D. Picard" wrote:
>
>
> Now, I tried your suggestion which seems like a perfectly good idea but
> LyX complains with
>
> "
> ! Package pdfpages Error: You're either not using pdfLaTeX
> (pdfpages) or have turn off PDF output.
> (pdfpages) `pdfpages' works only with pdfLaTeX
> (pdfpages) and PDF output.
> "
>
> The pdfpages' documentation says that it doesn't work with latex but your
> pdf hint web page specify that \includepdf is in the LyX text which
> suggest it should work with LyX.
yes, you're right. i forget to say, that pdfpages only works
with pdflatex. so you have to export your lyx-text with
file->export->pdf (pdflatex).
if you get any problem, than export to latex (file->export->latex)
and run ba hand "pdflatex my.tex"
> Besides, is it just me or 'latex pdfpages.ins' doesn't work properly. It
> runs a docstrip script that ask for input file ext (I tried ins), output
> file extension (sty) and list of input file (pdfpages) and it sure
> produces a pdfpages.sty but that is useless. When \include'd in LyX, a
> 'view postcript' asks for the same input and output ext's and list of
> input file (that's when I latex the exported .tex because running 'view
> ps' produce an input error.
do you run latex pdfpages.ins from within the actual directory?
i had no problem with latex pdfpages.ins.
Herbert
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