Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Placing Figures and Text Side-by-Side

[schorsche]

Hello everybody,

can please help me out here, didn't find any info on my specific problem.
On the last page of a document I want to place a picture (right-aligned) with some text next to it. I do not want to wrap the text around the picture. Rather, I want the picture to be right-aligned with the (justified) text appearing left to it. The height of the pic should be the same as the text, so I also want to scale the picture to e.g. be the same height as 10 lines of text. How can I do that easily?
Many thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi schorsche,

you could use \parbox (or a minipage environment) for both the text and the picture. \parbox (minipage too) understands options for vertical alignment.
For the picture, you could specify the height, such as

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\includegraphics[height=10\baselineskip]{filename}

Between the text box and the picture use \hfill to achieve right alignment.

Stefan

[schorsche]

Hi!

Thanks for your tip, but it didn't work the way I expected it to. If I use the following command, the picture will be beneath the text, although there would be enough space on the right of the text! If I use 0.5\linewidth in both minipages it works properly, however, then there is a huge wide space between either sides of the picture! So I get the impression that the horizontal alignment is not working properly. Are there any alternative commands?

Thanks a lot, here's the code I am using:

\begin{minipage}{0.65\linewidth}
some text
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.35\linewidth}
\includegraphics[height=8\baselineskip]{grafics}
\end{minipage}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This way the minipages use the complete linewidth, but there's space between them, which causes the line break such that the second one is placed below.

The line breaks are whitespace, and \hfill is stretchable white space. Either comment them out, such as

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...
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.35\linewidth}
...

or make one minipage a bit smaller.

Stefan

[schorsche]

Ok all problems resolved, I had to place \centering into the second minipage!

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