LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ Remove space after figure and before text

[std00088]

Hi,

I have a figure in my latex paper (I am using IEEE tran package). After this figure there exists a space between the figure and the text. How can I reduce the size of this white space. To be specific the space is between the caption of the figure and the text of my paper. Any suggestions ?

Thanks

[localghost]

Without any code it is nearly impossible to give specific help. So I can only guess. I assume that you centre your figure with the center environment. You should try another approach.

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{12.8cm}{7.2cm}
  \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
\end{figure}

That eliminates the additional vertical space before and after the float environment. For more information about figures (and tables) refer to the document epslatex.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi std00088,

you can read some more explanation in the UK TeX FAQ: Extra vertical space in floats.

Stefan

[std00088]

This is my code:

\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{.....}
\caption{\footnotesize ....}
\label{fig_....}
\end{figure}

I need to reduce the space after whole the figure, not between figure and caption. Between figure/caption and following text !

[gmedina]

Then you can change some lengths. Take a look at the following example and, of course, feel free to change the values according to your needs:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[belowskip=-15pt,aboveskip=0pt]{caption}

\setlength{\intextsep}{10pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}

\begin{document}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \fbox{Test figure 1}
  \caption{test figure 1}
  \label{fig:testfig1}
\end{figure}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \fbox{Test figure 2}
  \caption{test figure 2}
  \label{fig:testfig2}
\end{figure}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

\end{document}

[std00088]

Thanks. It works perfect!

[neo]

In addition, you can use the \setlength command with an appropriate switch, before the \begin{document}. For example,

\setlength{\intextsep}{1ex} % set space above and below in-line float
or
\setlength{\intextsep}{-1ex} % remove extra space above and below in-line float

Some useful switches are,

• \floatsep - Space between floats. \dblfloatsep for 2 column format
• \intextsep - Space above and below in-line text floats
• \abovecaptionskip - Space above float caption
• \belowcaptionskip - Space below float caption

The same technique can be used for Tables. Additional switches can be found at
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/squeeze.html

The savetrees package http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees/ is another useful package, when it comes to space saving. However, this is brute force space saver so handle with care.