On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Bos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i'm trying to include a pdf file in a large document, a paper that was
> published in my MSc thesis in Lyx 1.4.4 in Windows. I tried including this
> with pdfpages. I first put \usepackage{pdfpages} in the preamble. I managed
> to get this to work, with an ERT command with the rather obscure but
> somehow necessary path format:
>
> \includepdf[pages=1-6]{//./c:/dir/pdffile}
>
> without the .pdf extension. So far so good. However, for this to work i
> have to use pdflatex instead of one of the other formats. Now my problem
> is, i get error messages when using pdflatex. For all my .eps figures, the
> following error message appears:
>
> An error occurred whilst running epstopdf
> --outfile="3D__dirigent_verslag_verslagdi
>
> And with a similar error for all .eps figures. All other figures and the
> pdf file include just fine. The error message seems to get cut off at the
> end. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong and how to fix it?
>
> I tried an alternative to pdfpages, by just converting the pdf file to ps
> with the pdf2ps command, then using psselect to get the separate pages and
> including those into Lyx. However, this doesn't work either. The pages i
> need to include do appear in the Lyx user interface, however not in any
> output format. If i try to include a pdf directly lyx says there is no
> converter to convert a pdf file to the eps format.
>
> So, does anyone have a solution for me? If all else fails i can just
> combine the pdf file with the pdf file of the thesis later, but i'd like it
> to work directly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pieter
Did you use the epsfig package for pdflatex?
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