Stephen Buonopane wrote:
I am trying to make the switch from eps/ps graphics and latex->dvi->ps->pdf to pdf graphics and pdflatex. However, when I have a pdf figure which is less than a full page, the LyX display that I see shows the graphic as if it is in the bottom left corner of a full page, i.e. there is a lot of white space above it. The pdf file produced with pdflatex is just fine.
> The displayed image seems to depend on which program I use to make > the pdf file.
This is a problem of ghostview. It ignores the pdf crop-box. (You can create pdfs in A4-size and crop it, so that only the picture is shown in the output without whitespace.) Some programs use this method.
Normally all pdf viewers accept this crop box, except of ghostview. And because LyX delegates image conversions to the program Imagemagick and Imagemagick uses ghostview to display pdfs, you see the pdf with whitespace.
In the pdf output the pdf is correctly inserted, because pdflatex accepts the crop box.
regards Uwe
