I need to adjust to vertical space between the last line that fits in the page and the bottom of the page itselft beacuse at the moment it looks like 1/4 of the page is empty because the "writable" part of the page ends too soon. Above image for reference.
Okay i have found out how to do it, just type the following:
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
bottom=10mm
}
Other info on the geometry package here: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Page_size_and_margins
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In my thesis I'm including already published papers. I've extracted pages as individual EPS files and I'm shrinking them so they fit on one page within the margins (\pageScale).
\hfill{}\includegraphics[scale=\pageScale]{Integrative-Theory-Associative/eps-pages/page-1}\hfill{}
While this works ok, the pages appear extremely small to fit in the margins. I'd like to increase the size of the graphics beyond the margins such that header and page number information would overlap with margins of the inserted pages.
eso-pic allows me to fill the whole page with my inserted pages, but the header and page number overlap with the text in the inserted pages:
\mbox{}
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{
\includegraphics{Integrative-Theory-Associative/pdf-pages/page-1.pdf}
}
\newpage
I's like to scale down and centre the graphics on the page so they are as big as possible while text within the graphics is not behind the header and is within the margins.
I don't mind manually figuring out the right scale for graphics, but I can't figure how to place the centre of a smaller graphic in the centre of the margins. \AtPageCenter
does not do what I expected, centre the centre of the graphic, not centre the lower left of the graphic.
In the example below I've used some of adjustbox's prowess to adjust included content:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}% Just for this example
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{This is some random header text}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand{\pictureincenteroftextblock}[2][]{%
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{%
\AtTextLowerLeft{%
\raisebox{.5\textheight}{%
\hspace*{.5\textwidth}%
\makebox[0pt]{\includegraphics[max width=\textwidth,max height=\textheight,valign=c,#1]{#2}}%
}%
}%
}%
}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-5]
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-a}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-10x16}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-1x1}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-a4}
\end{document}
With the [export] option, adjustbox adds its key-values to graphicx's \includegraphics options. Those I've used are max width and max height which will shrink the included image (or page from a PDF) if the width or height exceeds these maxima while still maintaining the included image/page aspect ratio. Additionally, valign=c will align the content in a vertically centred fashion.
eso-pic is used to place the image in the background, starting at the lower-left part of the text block. Then, through standard spacing commands, it's raised into position (\raisebox) and shoved over (\hspace) to the centre of the text block. Finally the image is horizontally centred (\makebox[0pt]).
Latex seems to fill in white space between the paragraphs by default, to get every page to end at approx the same height (at least with the book and scrreprt class). This is all fine, but I have a couple of pages with only two paragraphs. Latex insists on putting in 2cm of white space between them, which looks bad. I know that I can use \raggedrift for the whole document, but I kind of like the white fill except for the pages with only two paragraphs. I have also tried to adjust manually with \vspace{-1cm}, but it doesn't seem to work.
Is there a way to set a maximum value to the height of white fill between paragraphs?
If your mostly-empty pages are because the following content starts on a new page (at the end of a chapter, for example), then the easiest way to fix it is probably to insert a vertical fill after your last paragraph. The vertical fill should expand to occupy the extra space, keeping the inter-paragraph fill small.
You can change the vertical space applied to every paragraph by setting the value of \parskip.
The solution is very simple. At the end of the last paragraph of the page, add '\vfill'. This will fill up the rest of the page, making the two paragraphs on it move as close to each other as they would normally.
I just tested it myself and it works.
I'm making a document in LaTeX. It includes a set of images in a row. A small percentage are quite wide and will stretch and push off the page. If I shrink all the image sequences then most of them will look too small. However it's not easy to figure out what sets are going to be too large. I'd like some automatic way to resize these sets.
Is there anyway to surround something with a command which will shrink it enough so that it fits within the width of the page? If it's already narrower than the page, then no shrinking is necessary?
you can do something like
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figure}
or
\includegraphics[width=0.33\textwidth]{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.33\textwidth]{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.33\textwidth]{figure}
You may try the following macro:
\maxsizebox{〈width〉}{〈height〉}{〈content〉}
It only resizes the content if its natural size is larger than the given 〈width〉 or 〈height〉, but does not change the aspect ratio.
It is part of the adjustbox package. So you need to append to the preamble of your document:
\usepackage{adjustbox}
You can further read about it here.
The best way to scale down a big figure is this
\begin{figure}[!ht] \centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight,keepaspectratio]{"path to your figure"}
\caption{"your caption"}
\label{"your label"}
\end{figure}
I have a large figure that appears at the end of my document rather than in the section that I want to be in. Even \begin{figure}[h] doesn't help. Without scaling it down, how can I put it at the end of the section I want it in?
Using the afterpage package can be a good solution. However, using the option here you are trying to tell LaTeX where you want to put the image. Instead, you need to tell LaTeX where the image is good to be put:
use \begin{figure}[tb] for figures that fit well in a page with text (say, half of the text height for the figure and the other half for the text)
use \begin{figure}[p] for floats large enough to require a dedicated page.
Setting a proper option increase your chances to have the image almost where you want, having at the same time a good page layout.
If the figure is still too far from the page where it should be placed, you can set some "barriers" for floats positioning with the packages placeins or afterpage (already mentioned).
Here is a small tutorial for float placement. The thing you want to do is put an \afterpage{\clearpage} command at the end of the section. This will create an additional page after the current one and place the floats that are left in the queque there. If the float still doesn't get placed, you have to resize it. If you really don't want to resize it and it should fit on the page, then you could try changing the margins and text area temporarily (i.e. just for that one page) and see if that lets the float get placed.
i forget if it's the float or array package that provides this, but,
\begin{figure}[H]
...
\end{figure}
The upper case H will put the figure exactly where it is in your code.
I have a Latex document where I need to change the margins of only a few pages (the pages where I'm adding a lot of graphics).
In particular, I'd like to change the top margins (\voffset). I've tried doing:
\addtolength{\voffset}{-4cm}
% Insert images here
\addtolength{\voffset}{4cm}
but it didn't work. I've seen references to the geometry package, but I haven't found how to use it for a bunch of pages, and not for the whole document.
Any hints?
Use the "geometry" package and write \newgeometry{left=3cm,bottom=0.1cm} where you want to change your margins. When you want to reset your margins, you write \restoregeometry.
I've used this in beamer, but not for general documents, but it looks like that's what the original hint suggests
\newenvironment{changemargin}[2]{%
\begin{list}{}{%
\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\leftmargin}{#1}%
\setlength{\rightmargin}{#2}%
\setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
}%
\item[]}{\end{list}}
Then to use it
\begin{changemargin}{-1cm}{-1cm}
don't forget to
\end{changemargin}
at the end of the page
I got this from Changing margins “on the fly” in the TeX FAQ.
I was struggling a lot with different solutions including \vspace{-Xmm} on the top and bottom of the page and dealing with warnings and errors. Finally I found this answer:
You can change the margins of just one or more pages and then restore it to its default:
\usepackage{geometry}
...
...
...
\newgeometry{top=5mm, bottom=10mm} % use whatever margins you want for left, right, top and bottom.
...
... %<The contents of enlarged page(s)>
...
\restoregeometry %so it does not affect the rest of the pages.
...
...
...
PS:
1- This can also fix the following warning:
LaTeX Warning: Float too large for page by ...pt on input line ...
2- For more detailed answer look at this.
3- I just found that this is more elaboration on Kevin Chen's answer.
\par\vfill\break % Break Last Page
\advance\vsize by 8cm % Advance page height
\advance\voffset by -4cm % Shift top margin
% Start big page
Some pictures
% End big page
\par\vfill\break % Break the page with different margins
\advance\vsize by -8cm % Return old margings and page height
\advance\voffset by 4cm % Return old margings and page height
For figures you can use the method described here :
http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/centering-figure-table/
namely, do something like this:
\begin{figure}[h]
\makebox[\textwidth]{%
\includegraphics[width=1.5\linewidth]{bla.png}
}
\end{figure}
Notice that if you have subfigures in the figure, you'll probably want to enter into paragraph mode inside the box, like so:
\begin{figure}[h]
\makebox[\textwidth]{\parbox{1.5\textwidth}{ %
\centering
\subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{a.png}}
\subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{b.png}}
\end{figure}
For allowing the figure to be centered in the page, protruding into both margins rather than only the right margin.
This usually does the trick for images. Notice that with this method, the caption of the image will still be in the delimited by the normal margins of the page (which is a good thing).
A slight modification of this to change the \voffset works for me:
\newenvironment{changemargin}[1]{
\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\voffset}{#1}
}
\item[]}{\end{list}}
And then put your figures in a \begin{changemargin}{-1cm}...\end{changemargin} environment.
Look up \enlargethispage in some LaTeX reference.
I could not find a easy way to set the margin for a single page.
My solution was to use vspace with the number of centimeters of empty space I wanted:
\vspace*{5cm}
I put this command at the beginning of the pages that I wanted to have +5cm of margin.
This worked for me:
\newpage % larger page1
\enlargethispage{1.5cm} % more room for text or floats
\advance\voffset by -0.5cm % reduce top margin
\advance\footskip by 1cm % lower page number
Some content
\newpage % larger page2
\enlargethispage{1.5cm}
Some content
...
\newpage % return to normal page
\advance\voffset by 0.5cm
\advance\footskip by -1cm
I had the same problem in a beamer presentation. For me worked using the columns environment:
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
\column{1.2\textwidth}
\begin{figure}
\subfigure{\includegraphics[width=.49\textwidth]{1.png}}
\subfigure{\includegraphics[width=.49\textwidth]{2.png}}
\end{figure}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}