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Pintu
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Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

Post by Pintu »

Hi,

Thanks to this Forum I have solved a whole bunch of problems, but I am unable to do one thing: I need to place a large figure on a page, nothing else. Because the Figure is larger then the text area I want to center it horizontally and vertically.

Here is an example how I've trying to achieve this. It is quite ugly and I don't think that the figure vertical center is perfect. Because I am using this command very often I am looking for something easier.

Thanks,
Pintu

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\documentclass[final,11pt,paper=a4]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{floatpag} % for figures allowing to overlap page numbers
	\floatpagestyle{plain}
	\rotfloatpagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[labelfont=bf,hang,singlelinecheck=false]{caption}
	\setlength{\captionmargin}{20pt}
	\captionsetup{justification=justified}
	
\usepackage{geometry}
 	\geometry{
 		centering,
		footskip=35pt,
 		textheight=670pt,
  		footnotesep=24pt plus 2pt minus 12pt,
 		}
	
\begin{document}
	
	\begin{table}[c]
		\begin{minipage}[c][\textheight]{\textwidth}
		\thisfloatpagestyle{empty}
			\caption{Full Size Table} 
			\centerline{
				\includegraphics[angle=90]{table}}
				\label{table}
		\end{minipage}
	\end{table}
	
\end{document}

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localghost
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Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

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I have two questions.
  • Which file format has the image file?
  • Is the table so complex that you can't do it in LaTeX?

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Pintu
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Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

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Hi,
  • The image is a PDF
  • I have dozens of tables as vector graphics, converting them to tex would be a lot of work. But anyway, I require this for figures as well.
Thanks,
Pintu
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localghost
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Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

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Pintu wrote:[…] The image is a PDF […]
The pdfpages package could help here.
Pintu
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Re: Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

Post by Pintu »

pdfpages is not really an option, as I need page numbers on some pages where the figure does not overlap, but I require the figure to be vertically and horizontally centered.
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CDbile
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Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

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Is this code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]

\begin{figure}[p]\centering
\vfill
\caption{Full Size Table}
\includegraphics[angle=90]{img}
\vfill
\end{figure}

\lipsum[1-2]

\end{document}
the code that you are looking for?
(note that the package lipsum is only used to produce dummy text and is not part of the solution)
CDbile
Pintu
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Re: Vertical and horizontal centering of full size image

Post by Pintu »

No, that does not center the graph on the page, just within the text margins.
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