>
> Also what is the best way to get pictures from
> existing pdf documents? With power point etc I can
> just select the picture in Acrobat and then paste in
> but this does not work with Lyx.
>
If you are on a linux machine you should find a program called
pdfimages
which picks either all the images out of the document or images on
selected pages. The images are stored as files in the directory you run
from.
/johan
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