Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Make LaTeX leave a picture alone

[john1923]

I am new to LaTeX and so far very impressed.

However

I have a full A4 figure that I made using Perl and Inkscape. It is absolutely beautiful and I don't want it re-sized.

I want to insert it unmodified into the final document, preferably in between two pages of text, but at the end would also be ok.

I also understand that I have written "figure 4" on the figure so there is no way for LaTeX to link to it but I can manually change it... or could I have some kind of LaTeX caption positioned at a specific point above the figure without resizing the picture.

As you can see I am not sure how to approach this problem so I appreciate any help.

Thankyou in advance

[corderin]

Try with:


\begin{figure}[p]
%the option p, places the figure alone in a page
\centering
\includegraphics{your_figure.eps}
\caption[Short caption for the index of figures]{Caption under the figure.} \label{fig:your_figure}
\end{figure}

Regards

[localghost]

I have a full A4 figure that I made using Perl and Inkscape. It is absolutely beautiful and I don't want it re-sized.

In the case the file is in PDF format, try the pdfpages package to include the whole page into your document.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[john1923]

Thankyou to both of you for the quick replies to a novice question

pdfpages works perfectly and I can save my figure as a PDF then include it in the LaTex Document, it works for now.

However it would be nice if I could make LaTeX show the picture in the background then put the figure caption over it, so the pic is not resized and it is in the middle.

Cordin's code is very similar to what I already tried, It doesn't re-size the pic but it doesn't put it in the middle either, half the figure pokes off the edge of the page.

[corderin]

To become the caption over the figure just insert the \caption line over the \includegraphics line...

For vertical centering try \vspace*{x cm} over the figure environment maybe using float package (\usepackage{float}) in order to employ the H option this way:

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\newpage

% vertical alignment
\vspace*{5 cm}

\begin{figure}[H]
%the option H, places the figure just where the code is written
\centering
\caption[Short caption for the index of figures]{Caption over the figure.} \label{fig:your_figure}
\includegraphics{your_figure.eps}
\end{figure}

\newpage

[john1923]

Thankyou Corderin

The /vspace is good I hadn't heard of that and it's companion /hspace lets me put the picure in the middle of the page.

But the code puts the caption over (as in above) the picture. The figure is a full page so the caption won't fit. I want to put the caption in a transparent box over the figure. So the caption is in front of the figure. and the figure is behind the caption, potentially obscured.

Is this possible?

Thankyou for all of your help.

[corderin]

John, here is a tricky way to solve your problem, and it works fine:

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\begin{figure}[h]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{sa.eps}
%with vspace you can place the caption over the figure
\vspace*{-1cm}	\caption[Sistema de automatización: estructura funcional]{Estructura funcional de un sistema de automatización.}	\label{fig:sa}
\end{figure}

The result is attached.