General ⇒ Figure Caption on next page

[Anna]

Hi,

I have a figure which is the size of a page, and I need to add a fairly long caption to it. I'd like the caption to go on the following page, so that I can keep the size of the figure. How do I do this?

I'm fairly new to Latex, this forum has been useful for me so far Thanks!

Anna

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Anna,

you could do it without the figure environment, using \captionof provided by the caption package. Here is an example, I'm using \rule instead of \includegraphics, just as a place holder:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
 \rule{0.3\textwidth}{\textheight}
 \captionof{figure}{text on the next page}
\end{center}
\end{document}

\captionof
The caption package provides a lot of features aimed at the formatting of captions, you will find more information in the documentation (available in several languages).

Stefan

[Anna]

Thanks for that.

I found this package, 'fltpage' which writes the (long) caption on the following or preceding page underneath a line, it looks neat. However, it would be nice to tag the figure with (e.g) 'Figure x: caption on previous page'. Anyone know how I could do this?

An example of using the package is below. Just use it instead of the 'figure' commands

Cheers, Anna

\begin{FPfigure}
\includegraphics[width=11cm,clip=true,trim=0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm,draft=false]{Figure.pdf}
\caption[test figure caption]{Figure}
\label{fig: x}
\end{FPfigure}