Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ My figures are not centered

[argan]

Hi, all.

I'm relatively new to LaTeX, but I couldn't find any information regarding this specific problem (related ones here on the forum, but they didn't help me). My problem is that my figures all become right-aligned, despite having used \centering in the figure environment. Are there any specific packages I should load?

This is the beginning of the document:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
% define the title
\author{B.~Fallqvist}
\title{Cell mechanics - A litterature study}
\usepackage{graphicx, float}
\begin{document}
% generates the title
\maketitle
% insert the table of contents
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\newpage

Typically, I write a figure as

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\begin{figure}[H]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=0.5, angle=-90]{Figures/focal_adhesion}
	\vspace{1.5cm}
	\caption{Formation of focal adhesions \cite{geiger_09}.}
	\label{focal_adhesion}
\end{figure}

Is there anything in here that makes the figure become right-aligned?

Thanks
Björn

[coachbennett1981]

When you use the code:

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\begin{figure}{H}
\centering

Make the H lowercase, h. LaTeX is case sensitive with some of the code (or maybe all of the code). Try that. If that doesn't work you can try:

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\begin{center}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{...}
\end{figure}

\end{center}

To make things flushright, you can use \begin{flusright}..\end{flushright)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Björn,

welcome to the board!

Could it be, that your figures are a bit too large? Perhaps just try again but make one smaller for testing, such as scale=0.2.

Do you get any warnings, such as regarding overfull \hbox?

Stefan

[argan]

Hi, and thanks for the welcome.

I've tried both reducing the size of the image, and using h instead of H, but the image is still aligned to the right. It's not as far right as it can be, it looks more just displaced to the right. I'm attaching what it typically looks like. I don't get any error or warnings either. I do get "Bad boxes", though. What does this mean?

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Bad boxes mean something is too large. Did you try to reduce the size of the image more than just a bit? I mean, is it centered if it has only half of the width? I still guess it's too big, so it's overlapping into the marging producing a bad box.

Stefan

[argan]

Yes, I reduced it to very small sizes and tried also, but it didn't help (scales of about 0.1, 0.05 and so on; in the attached image it is 0.5).

I also tried using pstricks with some code a friend sent, but when I load that package, the document doesn't compile at all. Or...it does compile, but any changes I make to it are void.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, I reduced it to very small sizes and tried also, but it didn't help (scales of about 0.1, 0.05 and so on; in the attached image it is 0.5).

So even such a small image is right aligned and overlaps into the right margin?

If yes, please make a compilable small example which can be tested. The code snippets above seem to be ok.

Btw. it would be great if you use code markup to make the code readable. I just did this for you and edited the first post. When you write a post, there's a Code button right above the edit field.

Stefan

[argan]

Hi, Stefan

After lots of tweaking, it seems that the problem is with my .eps-files. I will need to find a new way to create them since the freeware I used to create them distorted them somehow. Sorry to have wasted your time.

Thanks anyway!

Björn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Björn,

there are tools to fix eps files, for instance the bounding box, such as epstool or ps2eps.

Or you could convert them to pdf, by epstopdf, and use pdfLaTeX with all its advantages such as jpeg/png/pdf support and microtypographic optimization.

It's very good that you found it. It would be great if you mark the question as solved then. Just edit your first post in this thread (the question) and choose the checkmark symbol as topic icon.

Stefan