Include PDF in latex document
Sometimes I use Excel or NeoOffice/OpenOffice.org to create tables I want to include in latex documents. I try to get latex code for the table using Calc2Latex or the Excel2LaTeX, but when that doesn't work so well, I print the table to a pdf an include that pdf in the pdflatex document.
[UPDATE]
I recently discovered that the graphicx package can include pdf files as pictures. Also useful.
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This is what you can use for concatenating PDFs: (shamelessly stolen from http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php)
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If you have LaTeX installed, you probably have pdftex and a package called pdfpages, and you can use those together with a hand-written driver file to append PDFs. This approach is more work than I'd really prefer, but it's the only one I found that actually did work in my situation, after spending a lot more time on the problem than I ought to have (and not being paid by the hour, so it hurt). If I were doing this task many times I could of course write a script to streamline it
Create a driver file like out.tex with contents like this:
\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in1}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in2}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in3}
\end{document}
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If you just want to include a pdf as a picture, you use the \usepackage{graphicx} ... \includegraphics{file.pdf} solution.
[UPDATE]
I recently discovered that the graphicx package can include pdf files as pictures. Also useful.
[/UPDATE]
This is what you can use for concatenating PDFs: (shamelessly stolen from http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php)
begin quote
If you have LaTeX installed, you probably have pdftex and a package called pdfpages, and you can use those together with a hand-written driver file to append PDFs. This approach is more work than I'd really prefer, but it's the only one I found that actually did work in my situation, after spending a lot more time on the problem than I ought to have (and not being paid by the hour, so it hurt). If I were doing this task many times I could of course write a script to streamline it
Create a driver file like out.tex with contents like this:
\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in1}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in2}
\includepdf[pages=-]{in3}
\end{document}
end quote
If you just want to include a pdf as a picture, you use the \usepackage{graphicx} ... \includegraphics{file.pdf} solution.
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