Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ figure flushed to the right on its own !!!

[pemfir]

WHY the figures move to the left for no reason ? i would like to keep them in the center , there is still alot of margin on both sides, but it keeps giving me this crap figure placement.

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}


\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width = 6in]{figure1_2} 
\end{figure}


\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's at the left margin. It's too wide, that's why it overlaps into the right margin. You could make it smaller, or make the margins smaller, i.e. the text area wider. It's also possible to let it overlap symmetrically, if really required. Btw. I would make this table with LaTeX instead of making a figure from external graphics. Especially, since bitmap graphics such as PNG are not lossless scalable, which means lower quality.

Stefan

[pemfir]

thank you !
This was just a sample, when i decrease the size of these pictures in the document, so that they would not interfere with the margins, it moves to the middle, but then there is a large white area on both sides, that i would like to take advantage of, the text in the document has a width i want the figure width to be as large as the text. when using

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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Figure1_2}

I still see a lot of white margin from both sides, i thought maybe the figure itself has some invisible area on both sides, but it does not.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

So perhaps post a sample figure, which shows the problem you described in your last post with the code above. Right, probably the explanation is whitespace in the figure itself.

Stefan