Paul (and the rest of the group):
> William R. Buckley wrote: > > > > My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11 inches, > > though the actual image that I want is much > > smaller. > > Right-click the image and use the Output Size portion of the > dialog (Graphics tab) to scale the image. If you want to > maintain the original aspect ratio, the easiest way is to > scale it by a percentage (first box). > > Also, if your image has white space that you would like to > crop (for instance, if it's a modest sized graphic produced > by a program that wrote it out to a full letter-size page), > use the Clipping tab of the dialog, select "Clip to bounding > box" and specify coordinates for the bottom left and top > right corners of the display area. > > > > What I notice, even in the imported .tex file for my paper, > > and when using LyX, (BTW, is it as in Lick?) > > There's been extensive (and IMHO inconclusive) discussion > of this, but "licks" seems to be the predominant choice > (particularly since "leaks" > is not a happy name for a computer program). I would argue for lick, to be consistent with TeX and LaTeX. Of course, when I first encountered the product, licks came immediately to mind. > > that the > > image takes a page on its own. Also, the box for the > > image in the LyX display says *error converting to > > loadable format* or some such - I > > can't really tell, > > as the type appears to be 4pt. > > It's a variable font -- automatically maps to two points > smaller than what your eyes can comfortably read. Well then, goal accomplished. Doesn't really matter, I suppose, since I don't need to see the image in LyX either. Hey, perhaps a good idea is to magnify the enclosing box of the graphic file when the mouse pointer pans over the bounding box. > > > > The text following the graphic begins on the page > > following that which is used by the graphic. This is > > absolutely unacceptable, for the image takes only > > about one tenth the height of the page. > > Are you saying that there is a bunch of wasted space below > the image box, then a page break and more text, or are you > saying that there is wasted space inside the image box (in > which case you need to clip), or neither? > > /Paul Exactly, one of these cases. I have a small graphic positioned at the upper left of a full 8.5x11 inch page, and stored in PDF. The vast majority of the page is blank. When I paste this into a document via LyX, and then print the document to a PDF, what I get is the entire page inserted into the document, instead of just the 3 inch wide, 2 inch tall graphic image. Hence, the text of the document ends on one page, is interrupted by a text less page containing only the graphic image, and then continues upon the page following; i.e. there is a break in the text which consumes a whole page. The PDF is attached. The relevant code of the .lyx file is as follows: \begin_inset Graphics filename figure1.pdf width 10cm BoundingBox 0in 0in 5in 2in clip special totalheight=300pt \end_inset This inset began as some standard LaTeX code, which is \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics*[width=10cm, totalheight=300pt]{figure1.pdf} \caption{\label{fig:figone}Figure 1. An active sub-configuration s' which is identical to its state transition, F(s') = s', classifiable as passive or active, depending upon applied metric. No other figure shows signal, as this figure does.} \end{figure} Yes, I know that the caption is different from that in the image. I plan to remove the image text, and use the above shown mechanism. The origin for all this was a sample sent by the journal editor, and looks like: \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{figname.eps} \label{figlabel} \end{figure} So, while a lot of learning is going on, it has yet to get me the images that I need. Hence, a few more lessons are apparently in order. I can see that the end of this process is near. The immediate concern is proper use of the cropping tool, and image placement. I figure the failure of text to follow the image on the same page (support for universal image placement?) is a simple oversight. Ciao!!! wrb
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