On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Joseph Brock
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am quite new to Lyx/Latex so sorry if this is a stupid question.
>
> I am currently writing my PhD thesis using Lyx and would like to insert a
> PDF of a paper I have published as an appendix.
>
Could you post a minimal, reproducible example with dummy text and a
random PDF file?
Liviu
> After googling what to do, I used Insert--->File---->External
> Material----->PDFpages--->paper.pdf w/ 'pages=-' in the LaTeX options to
> display all the pages as per the pdfpages documentation.
>
> After using View--->View Source, I found that \usepackage{pdfpages} was
> already in the default preamble of my Lyx version, so I tried to compile the
> pdf. I got the following error descriptions:
>
> \end{figure}
>
> You've closed more groups than you opened.
>
> Such booboos are generally harmless, so keep going.
>
>
> \end{figure}
>
> Your command was ignored.
>
> Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command,
>
> or <return> to continue without it.
>
>
> \end{figure}
>
> Things are pretty mixed up, but I think the worst is over.
>
> Apart from bringing a smile to my face, these descriptions did not help the
> situation much. After finding the pdfpages package on CTAN, i realised it
> was a more current version that I had installed in:
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/
>
> so as per the instructions here:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Installing_Extra_Packages
>
> I downloaded the .ins and .dtx files, ran them through latex, and moved the
> resulting files to the same place to see if this would help. I then
> reconfigured and resarted Lyx. Same error messages.
>
> If any would could give me some advice on how to get this package working or
> another way to achieve my goal, I would really appreciate it. My thesis is
> well overdue!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe.
>
>
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