Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ centering of large figure

[kth]

As I want to print a figure even larger I have noticed that
it doesnt remain centered (inspite of the \begin{center} \end{center} command)

The figure moves a little to the right, not aligned with caption and text.
Is there a command that will allow the figure to use more space in the page while being aligned as i want to?

[localghost]

The preferable way would be to make the figure fit the text width. The epslatex document introduces the narrow environment which makes it possible to specify the range of the figure into the margins. A more simpler way is to put the figure into a special box

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\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \makebox[\textwidth]{
    \includegraphics{filename}
  }
  \caption{Wide figure}\label{fig:wide}
\end{figure}

In case the inclusion of the external graphics without any options makes it appear wide than the text width, it will be centered automatically.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[fatra2]

Hi there,

Does the command:

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\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{filename}
\end{figure}

would do the same thing???

This way, you would save the creation of a box.

Cheers

[kth]

Ive tried that but my figure has details u cant see if i reduce the size to textwidth. I need to give my figure width more than the textwidth..

Can i do it somehow?

[localghost]

[...] Can i do it somehow?

Just translate the suggestion from my last reply. Theoretically you can stretch the width of the figure to paper width without obtaining warnings.

[kth]

When i use

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\begin{figure}[h]
  \makebox(3,3){
    \includegraphics{filename}
  }
\end{figure}

My figure appears enormous no matter what the option (3,3) is.

[localghost]

Please explain what (3,3) shall do and why you just don't copy the code I provided. Learn how to use the \makebox command.

It goes without saying the you still can specify a width for the included graphics file in addition to my code example.

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\includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth]{filename}

If you don't need a caption and want to place the imagewhere declared in the source, omit the figure environment.

[kth]

cause i thought that the code u posted had a little error
the syntax is:

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\makebox(width,height)[position]{ ... }

so i have to specify width and height and i chose 3 by 3 inches to test it.
If I specify a width in the \includegraphics command shouldnt that be smaller than the box dimension?

Also my figure goes on the text...

Thanx for reading this

[localghost]

It seems that you need to do some basic reading [1]. Please provide a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the behaviour you described. Attach a sample graphics file if necessary. For the present take a look at this example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\setlength{\parindent}{0em}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \makebox[\textwidth]{%
    \rule{1.1\textwidth}{0.5\textheight}
  }

  \blindtext
\end{document}

[1] View topic: LaTeX Resources for Beginners

[episanty]

Another possible solution is to use a picture environment and then \put the included graphic way left:

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\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \setlength{\unitlength}{\textwidth} 
    \begin{picture}(1,0.5)%in case your image is twice as wide as it is high.
       \put(-0.1,0){\includegraphics[width=1.2\unitlength]{image.jpg}}
    \end{picture}
\end{figure}