Inserting images in LaTeX - latex

I have a question on inserting images into a LaTeX document. I try to insert images using the keyboard short cut: Ctrl-Alt-G and I'm able to insert images. But the compiled pdf document shows all the images at the end, whereas I want to interleave images with text. Something like the following:
Text1
Image1
Text2
Image2
Text3
Image3
I try to insert images at right positions i.e. in between text, but on compilation, they all appear at the end. I have tried different options provided on the image insertion UI but same result.
Any idea where I'm going wrong.
Related SO question.

You'll have to use graphicx package:
\usepackage{graphicx}
and then you just use \includegraphics
\includegraphics{myfig.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=60mm]{myfig.png}
\includegraphics[height=60mm]{myfig.jpg}
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{myfig.pdf}
\includegraphics[angle=45,width=52mm]{myfig.jpg}

Try downsizing the images. Maybe they are too large and so they are moved to the end of the document..
Hope it helps.

What code did you use for the \figure environment? In most cases the "h" option should at least help a little bit there.

This is a FAQ: "Moving tables and figures in LaTeX". Note especially the third dot point, which relaxes some of the restrictions LaTeX uses to position floats.
That's the best answer I can give without seeing an example of how large your floats are and how you're inserting them into the document. Provided that they're reasonably-sized, you should have no problem with
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\includegraphics{myfig}
\caption{...}
\label{fig:myfig}
\end{figure}
And note that if the float is too large to fit then it will move to a subsequent page -- this is the whole idea behind getting LaTeX to help you with the formatting. You certainly don't want to end a page prematurely just because there's a figure coming up next that otherwise doesn't fit.

Maybe this can help you in general...I just hate the LaTeX way of making everything too advanced (flexible) at all times.
Beside, the source looks really awful.
It will not solve you initial problem, but since it will be easier to change size of each image you can at least try...
% Easy image insert
% use as \img{imagename}{caption}{label}
% will insert image with with 70% of textwidth
% change below for other width
\newcommand{\img}[3]{
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{#1}
\caption{#2}
\label{fig:#3}
\end{figure}
}
\img{myimage}{has this caption}{and_this_label}
the label is automatically prefixed with fig:.
Good luck!
/C

Using [!t] and [!h] in the figure environment, rather than [t], [h] etc seems to help, though I've yet to find a surefire way to get large images in sensible places. Sometimes it works half way through a document, othertimes it doesn't.

Sometimes just changing the width or height using an option to the includegraphics statement (square brackets before the filename a.k.a \includegraphics[width=foo]{}) will do the trick.

\begin{figure}[H!]
\includegraphics{myfig}
\caption{...}
\label{fig:myfig}
\end{figure}
Use H! to denote that you want your picture right there.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
text
\begin{figure}[tbh]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.4 \textheight]{ & directory path of jpg. width defines the width of the page and one one can put in its place height which is text page height }
\caption{name of the jpg}
\end{figure}
% it worked for me.
\end{document}

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LaTeX - Automatically scale down an area so that it will be inside a page if it's too big?

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}

How to place a wide figure with subfigures in Latex?

I am trying to write a report and stuck with a wide figure. My document type is PRL using revtex4.1 with two columns. I have a wide figure which consists of 8 subfigures. I am trying to place it bottom of a page but it insists to go next page. Here is code for my wide figure:
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\subfloat[s1]{\label{fig:s1}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s1.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s2]{\label{fig:s2}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s2.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s3]{\label{fig:s3}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s3.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s4]{\label{fig:s4}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s4.png}}\\
\subfloat[s5]{\label{fig:s5}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s5.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s6]{\label{fig:s6}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s6.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s7]{\label{fig:s7}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s7.png}}\qquad
\subfloat[s8]{\label{fig:s8}\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{s8.png}}
\caption{\label{fig:s}Caption}
\end{figure*}
Try also
\begin{figure*}[!hb]
If your figure is too wide, this might help: Centering wide tables or figures.
I don't know whether it will work, but have you tried using placements, ie:
\begin{figure*}[b]
where b stands for bottom?
You could also try using the float package (put this in the preamble, before \begin{document}:
\usepackage{float}
and then using
\begin{figure*}[H]
to specify exactly where you want your figure to be, i.e. put the figure exactly in the position in relation to your text where you want the figure to be placed.
It may be that your figure is just too big and it won't fit there, so you may have to reduce the size of the figures or fiddle with the margins (not recommended, but possible).
Lastly, in 6 days the LaTeX question and answer website will be open to everyone, and you might find it useful.

Variable font height via tables in LaTeX

I've been looking for a more elegant solution to the following typesetting problem. Consider those banners found in print media where the text is aligned like:
B I G T E X T
small text small text small text
m o r e m e d i u m t e x t
The font sizes are adjusted so that the height is scaled down for longer lines of text such that each line has equal width. I've written a small script that runs each line separately, compiles, crops the resulting pdf and then \includegraphics each in a table. This gives the desired effect but requires an both an outside script and pdfcrop (which only crops to a white bounding box). Since much of LaTeX is self-aware, I imagine it would be possible to have it recognize the width of a box and scale it appropriately so that any text fits exactly into the desired width.
Any thoughts or ideas on how a pure LaTeX implementation might work?
EDIT As a supplement to the suggested solution by AVB (since large code in comments looks awful), I've posted below the code used so that others may find it easily.
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[l]
\resizebox{10cm}{!}{BIG Text} \\
\resizebox{10cm}{!}{small text small text small text} \\
\resizebox{10cm}{!}{Medium Text Medium Text}
\end{table} \end{document}
First, read the TeX FAQ entry titled Changing the space between letters. Depending on your circumstances, the packages and recommendation in that FAQ may suffice.
Also, take a look at the \scalebox and \resizebox commands in the graphicx package. They do what the names imply.
I'm sure that this could be improved upon, and due to different font implementations at different sizes then it isn't going to be exact, but here's a quick-and-dirty way to do it:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfmath}
\usepackage{anyfontsize}
\newlength{\mywidth}
\newlength{\testwidth}
\setlength{\mywidth}{4in}
\newcommand{\fixedwidth}[1]{%
\settowidth{\testwidth}{#1}%
\pgfmathsetmacro{\x}{round(\mywidth/\testwidth * 10)}%
\pgfmathsetmacro{\y}{round(\mywidth/\testwidth * 15)}%
\bgroup\fontsize{\x pt}{\y pt}\selectfont#1\egroup}
\begin{document}
\fixedwidth{hello world}
\fixedwidth{greetings earthlings}
\end{document}
In practice, it's a little less than the 4in, but the two lines of text do get scaled to the same amount.
Check out the package textfit. Usage:
\scaletowidth{width}{text}
or
\scaletoheight{height}{text}

Math operator in specifying figure width in LaTeX

In LaTeX figures, one can use \textwidth and \columnwidth to specify sizes of the graphic relative to the size of surrounding text, e.g.
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{myimage}.
I would like to easily switch from onecolumn to twocolumn template (and back) without the figure growing too large for onecolumn template. For twocolumn template (where \columnwidth is roughly half the \textwidth), I would like to have something like:
\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{myimage}.
and for onecolumn template (where \columnwidth and \textwidth are equal):
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{myimage}.
Now, I figured I could limit this using some kind of a min operator:
\includegraphics[width=min(.5\textwidth,.9\columnwidth)]{myimage} but this is invalid syntax. Is there something like this to solve this problem, possibly through the use of LaTeX macro system?
Although it's possible to write this sort of macro, I wouldn't want to hardcode it into each figure; how about something like this
\makeatletter
\newlength \figwidth
\if#twocolumn
\setlength \figwidth {0.9\columnwidth}
\else
\setlength \figwidth {0.5\textwidth}
\fi
\makeatother
and then use
\includegraphics[width=\figwidth]{myimage}
to insert the graphic.
\textwidth is the horizontal width of the page body and not really appropriate for your purposes.
\linewidth is the width of the current line; it will be updated appropriate to columns, indentation, etc.
The following paragraph produces a picture that should precisely fit the entire line width (i.e. no overful warning):
\noindent\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{myimage}
If you prefer small margins on the left and right, you can use:
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{myimage}
\end{center}
Or, if you want to specify the margins in an absolute size:
\usepackage{calc}
...
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth-20pt]{myimage}
\end{center}
Hmm... the code above (\if#twocolumn etc.) is not working for me at all. No idea why not. :( tetex on osX using fink. Trying to use revtex4, so perhaps that's the problem. I really like the idea of this type of change because I'm going to be dorking with widths etc. for my thesis and various journal articles, and to have these distances specified with a macro may be helpful for these types of conversions.
Any comments greatly appreciated!
-Allen
Somebody else who is more familiar with this will probably answer, but note that you would also need to change your figure type to be figure* if you are going two-column.

Is there a way to get LaTeX to place figures in the same page as a reference to that figure?

I am using LaTeX and the figure environment.
I am well familiar with the parameters to that environment: [htbp], and I am also generally familiar with the strategies that LaTeX takes, by default, to decide where to put each figure. For example, by placing figures at the top or bottom of the page.
What I am wondering is whether there is a package, macro, or some commands that I can give so that if I have a single-column document and I mostly have a single in-text reference to a figure, that the figure would be more likely to be placed in the same page of the reference?
For example, imagine that I have a long paragraph which in the middle has a \ref{FIG:X}. When rendered, some of the paragraph appears before the page break, and some appears after the page break. I can also place the figure command somewhere before and after the whole paragraph. Is there a way to get it to actually be placed in the same page as the actual reference?
I don't want to sound too negative, but there are occasions when what you want is almost impossible without a lot of "artificial" tuning of page breaks.
If the callout falls naturally near the bottom of a page, and the figure falls on the following page, moving the figure back one page will probably displace the callout forward.
I would recommend (as far as possible, and depending on the exact size of the figures):
Place the figures with [t] (or [h] if you must)
Place the figures as near as possible to the "right" place (differs for [t] and [h])
Include the figures from separate files with \input, which will make them much easier to move around when you're doing the final tuning
In my experience, this is a big eater-up of non-available time (:-)
In reply to Jon's comment, I think this is an inherently difficult problem, because the LaTeX guys are no slouches. You may like to read Frank Mittelbach's paper.
Yes, include float package into the top of your document and H (capital H) as a figure specifier:
\usepackage{float}
\begin{figure}[H]
.
.
.
\end{figure}
You can always add the "!" into your float-options. This way, latex tries really hard to place the figure where you want it (I mostly use [h!tb]), stretching the normal rules of type-setting.
I have found another solution:
Use the float-package. This way you can place the figures where you want them to be.
I solve this problem by always using the [h] option on floats (such as figures) so that they (mostly) go where I place them. Then when I look at the final draft, I adjust the location of the float by moving it in the LaTeX source. Usually that means moving it around the paragraph where it is referenced. Sometimes I need to add a page break at an appropriate spot.
I've found that the default placement of floats is reasonable in LaTeX, but manual adjustments are almost always needed to get things like this just right. (And sometimes it isn't possible for everything to be perfect when there are lots of floats and footnotes.)
The manual for the memoir class has some good information about how LaTeX places floats and some advice for manipulating the algorithm.
If you want force this behaviour on all of your figures try
...
\usepackage{float}
\floatplacement{figure}{H}
...
Maybe this will help you?
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{picture_name}
\end{center}
I think is better to use the graphics command when your figures run away.
I have some useful comments. Because I had similar problem with location of figures.
I used package "wrapfig" that allows to make figures wrapped by text.
Something like
...
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
...
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{53pt}
\includegraphics[width=53pt]{cone.pdf}
\end{wrapfigure}
In options {r} means to put figure from right side. {l} can be use for left side.
\setcounter{topnumber}{2}
\setcounter{bottomnumber}{2}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{4}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.85}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.85}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.15}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7}
http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/latex-floats/
One way I found that helps with this is to use \include{file_with_tex_figure_commands}
(not input)

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