Document Classes ⇒ How to insert a conference paper in a thesis appendix?

[americo.cunhajr]

Hello there,

I need to insert a conference paper that I published in the appendix of my thesis, but the thesis and the paper use different LaTeX class files.
How can I insert this paper in the appendix respecting the formatting rules of the conference? I appreciate a lot if someone here can help me.

Thanks in advance.

Americo Cunha

[frabjous]

Can you simply typeset the conference paper as a separate document and then include it in the thesis with the pdfpages package? Or will that not work for some reason?

[americo.cunhajr]

The 'pdfpages' package creates a sequence of empty pages in my document, once first I generate a .dvi file (all the figures of my thesis are in .eps format) than I use dvipdfm to create a .pdf file.

Is there any other solution?

Thanks.

Americo

[frabjous]

You need to use pdflatex or xelatex for pdfpages; it won't work with latex + dvipdfm.

However, as of TeXlive 2010 or MikTeX 2.9, pdflatex now supports eps figures directly, as does xelatex (from even earlier). Earlier versions of pdflatex support them if you use the epstopdf package and compile with the -shell-escape or -enable-write18 flag.

Alternatively you could create separate PDFs of the thesis (using latex+dvipdfm or whatever) and the article, then simply use pdfpages to combine their outputs.

[americo.cunhajr]

It worked, thanks a lot!

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