Helge Hafting wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:07PM +0100, Christian Schanz wrote:
Hello,
I am currently finishing my master thesis with the help of LyX. I
have to use a special front page. The Layout for this front page was
given to me as a Word-Document. So I converted this to a PDF-File
with Openoffice.org.
What is the best way to insert this PDF-File into my LyX Document? I
have attached a small LyX-Sample (I am using the koma classes) of how
I am doing it now.
Currently I can only insert the page with about 80% of its size and
an additional page is inserted aber the front page.
A pdf file can be inserted as graphichs, provided that you're
using pdflatex to generate a pdf document. That's the way I use to
get xfig figures into pdf documents. You should probably not have
any page breaks in the included pdf file, but I guess you can avoid
that seeing that you make it yourself.
a pagebreak is no problem, you can choose the page by number
As for a "page picture" like this being too large - it will
always be too large as it contains margins and everything. It is
a whole page, which latex mistakenly tries to fit inside the text area.
in this case it is wrong to use \includegraphics, better
\includepdf -> see Jürgens answer
You can, however, tell latex not to do that by using some box commands.
A "\raisebox" can contain stuff of any height, but you can tell latex
that it counts as zero height. That way, it doesn't cause a page break.
There are another box command where you can specify the
width too. Using this you can force latex to believe a graphich takes
no space at all - useful for backgrounds and possibly other cases.
these are real hacks ...
there are packages for such purposes.
Herbert
