Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ problem with space between figures

[deea]

I want to insert 4 figures in the same line, but the space between the figures becomes too big. How can I reduce it? Please, could somebody offer some solutions?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

It depends on how you are doing it. If you end the line or the paragraph normally, LaTeX doesn't insert additional space. If you let LaTeX justify left and right margin, LaTeX can insert space to fully fill the page width. Or do you use a package such as subfigure, subfig, or subcaption, or use minipage or \parbox for positioning?

Please post your code, otherwise we cannot say what produces that space.

Stefan

[deea]

Hy Stefan, thanks for the welcome message,
my code was the following:

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\documentclass[nopreprint,times,3p,final]{elsarticle}

\usepackage[font=small,format=plain,labelfont=bf,up,textfont=it,up]{caption}
\usepackage{graphicx,subcaption}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{subcaption}


\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{1sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}
  \caption{}
  \label{fig:q000001}
  \quad
  \quad
  \end{subfigure} %
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{2sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}
  \caption{}
  \label{fig:q11}
  \quad
  \quad
  \end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth, angle=270]{3sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}
  \caption{}
  \label{fig:q21}
  \quad
  \quad
  \end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth, angle=270]{4sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}
  \caption{}
  \label{fig:q31}
  \quad
  \quad
  \end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{41sz500Avg5.eps}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:q411}
    \quad
    \quad
  \end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{42sz500Avg5.eps}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:q4211}
    \quad
    \quad
  \end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{43sz500Avg5.eps}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:q4311}
    \quad
    \quad
  \end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{44sz500Avg5.eps}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:q4411}
    \quad
    \quad
  \end{subfigure}
\caption{Distribution from $q=0.000001$ to $q=0.44$}
\label{fig:q000001q44}
\end{figure} 

\end{document}

I tried with subcaption as well, with the code:

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\begin{figure}
\centering
\subcaptionbox{q=0.1}{\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{1sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}}%
\label{fig:q1}
\hfill
\subcaptionbox{q=0.2}{\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth]{2sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}}%
\label{fig:q2}
\hfill
\subcaptionbox{q=0.3}{\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth, angle=270]{3sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}}%
\label{fig:q3}
\hfill
\subcaptionbox{q=0.4}{\includegraphics[width=0.20\textwidth, angle=270]{4sz500AvgBySizeUj.eps}}%
\label{fig:q4}
\caption{Distribution from $q=0.1$ to $q=0.4$}
\end{figure}

With subcaption it was better, there wasn't so much space between figures, but I couldn't put 8 figures there in two lines, only 4 in one line.

I want to put litle figures, 4 in a line and more lines, in some places I have to insert 8, 12 or 16 figures, so 2,3 or for lines are needed.

Thanks a lot,
Virag

[Johannes_B]

Welcome, using subcaption, use \par when you want to jump to the next line. It introduces a new paragraph.

[deea]

Thanks, with \par I have got figures in more lines, but I got in package also two other problems, the labels can't be seen totally, even if I inserted 4 \quad rows and the other problem that appeared, that even if the figures are the same size, the first row is longer than the others.
Virag