Thanks for the reply Herbert. To answer your
question...
> this is done by the installtion and it is saved in
> /texmf/pdftex/config
>
I found pdftex.cfg. It is there under
/usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg
> > %> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf
>
> what is this? Are you running pdflatex on a pdf
> file???
>
Perhaps I've revealed my ignorance there and running
pdflatex on the .pdf did not make sense. I wasn't
really sure what I was doing, but since
\usepackage{pdfpages} wasn't working for me from
within LyX, I decided to try pdfnup on the command
line.
When I ran the pdfnup script on my .pdf, it also
failed. When I checked the log file generated, I saw
that it failed at the step pdflatex. So (not really
comprehending everything that was going on in pdfnup
script) I decided to run pdflatex on my .pdf file to
see what would happen from the command line. Like I
said, maybe that makes no sense, but that was my
thinking there.
This is what pdfnup gives me....
pdf_nup> ./pdfnup temppdffile.pdf
This is pdfnup version 0.8
Temporary LaTeX file for this job is
/u/reyes/tmp/-.tex
Calling pdflatex...
Failed: output file not written
And this is the .log file from this conversion
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5)
(format=pdflatex 2003.4.10) 15 JAN 2004 15:26
**temppdffile.pdf
(./temppdffile.pdf
Error: pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config
file
==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not
finished!
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