Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ text wdith and figure widths

[napiro]

I am writing a document and the text width is set at 6in, so I decided to make many of my figures 6in wide as well.
However, this seems to cause a little bit of extension into the margin on the right side of the page because the figure float seems to insert a bit of space to the left of the figure. Is there a way to correct this without scaling the graphic? What I would want to do is remove the left margin the float commands seem to generate.

Thanks.

The general format for inserting figures I use is:

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\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \scalebox{1}{
   \includegraphics{figrue1.pdf}}
  \caption[Shrot caption]{Long caption}
  \label{figureABC}
\end{figure}

[corderin]

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image}
\caption[Caption in TOC]{\label{fig:image}Caption.}
\end{figure}


or change width=0.9\textwidht or 0.8...

[napiro]

That solution ends up scaling the figure by a small amount. It is certainly an easy solution, but what i would really like to do is just align the edge of the figure flush with the left side, and the right edge should fall into place.


Oops. I guess it does do what I want. The culprit was the scalebox. Leaving that out and starting with original 6in wide graphics behaves properly. Thanks!!