Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How can I insert two pictures on the first page?

[ssfjhh]

Hello everyone,
My document has one "figure" section, but I don't want to show the title in the section, so I define a new command "nosection" to do this.

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    \newcommand{\nosection}[1]{
      \refstepcounter{section}%
      \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}#1}}

and I want to insert two pictures in each page exactly, and make each picture as big as possible, so I use the following code.

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    \nosection{Figures}
    \begin{figure}[htb]
        \centering
        \hypertarget{figure1}{}           
        \pdfbookmark[2]{Figure1}{figure1} 
        \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{1.eps}
        \caption{}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{figure}[b]
        \centering
        \hypertarget{figure2}{}           
        \pdfbookmark[2]{Figure2}{figure2} 
        \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{2.eps}
        \caption{}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{figure}[htb]
        \centering
        \hypertarget{figure3}{}           
        \pdfbookmark[2]{Figure3}{figure3} 
        \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{3.eps}
        \caption{}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{figure}[htb]
        \centering
        \hypertarget{figure4}{}           
        \pdfbookmark[2]{Figure4}{figure4} 
        \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{4.eps}
        \caption{}
    \end{figure}

But the first page of the "Figures" section only has one picture, I don't know why. All the pictures is small enouth to show 2 pictures in one page.
PS. And the last page only has 1 picture, how can I put the picture on the top of the page? I have tried to use "\begin{figure}[t]", but it didn't work.

[localghost]

For an adequate problem description kindly prepare a self-contained and minimal example to prevent others from guesswork and random shots.


Thorsten

[cgnieder]

As Thorsten already said: we can only guess what's happening unless you provide a minimal working example that let's us recreate your issue. Maybe the first EPS has not been cropped properly or has wrong bounding box information?

As an aside: your definition of \nosection has a spurious space:

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\newcommand{\nosection}[1]{% <= here should be a comment character
  \refstepcounter{section}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}#1}}

Although it probably doesn't matter since you're using \nosection in vertical mode I'd still add the comment character.

Regards

[ssfjhh]

Here is a minimal_example.

minimal_example.zip

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You may have never see "ctexart" class, it's for Chinese users.

My English is bad. If you cannot follow me, add comment below to show your question. I'll try my best to ansower you.

Thank you for your reply.

[Johannes_B]

Considering your problem. You have given all your figure-environments optional placement specifiers. As said, they are optional, ommiting them in your case leads to the output you are trying to achieve. Since your are having a section with only pictures, you may not want the pictures to float at all. Have a look at the capt-of-package.

Your minimal example uses the normal article class and no chinese signs. This is good, since not everybody has CJK-Fonts installed.

EDIT: Deleted wrong statement about the scale option keepaspectratio

[ssfjhh]

It's right to give both height and width to a picture. I'm sure about this.

Giving height and width limits the picture in a squarenes and "keep the aspect ratio".

If I cannot give height and width, the keepaspectratio option is useless!

the keepaspectratio option gives users the power to limit not only the height but also the width!

[ssfjhh]

@Johannes_B
I have remove the Chinese signs from the .tex file, can you help me?

minimal_example.zip

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[Johannes_B]

You were completely right about the aspectratio, i am sorry. I deleted the statement in my former post, so other guys linked here by google won't read anything wrong.
To quote the graphics documentary:

keepaspectratio Boolean valued key like ‘clip’. If set to true then specifying
both ‘width’ and ‘height’ (or ‘totalheight’) does not distort the figure but
scales such that neither of the specified dimensions is exceeded.

As mentioned in my previous post. Leaving out the optional arguments for the figure environments seems to be the solution. At least on my system compiled with pdflatex (latexmk -pdf \jobname to be more specific)

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{capt-of}

\makeatletter
\setlength{\@fptop}{0pt plus 1.0fil}%you don't need this in my example, 
\setlength{\@fpsep}{8pt plus 2.0fil}%no figure-floats are used.
\setlength{\@fpbot}{0pt plus 1.0fil}
\makeatother

\newcommand{\fullname}{This is title}

\newcommand{\nosection}[1]{%
  \refstepcounter{section}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}#1}}

  \newcommand{\nosubsection}[1]{%
    \refstepcounter{subsection}%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{\protect\numberline{\thesubsection}#1}}

    \setlength{\parskip}{0.5em}%

    \usepackage{geometry}%
    \geometry{left=25mm,right=15mm,top=25mm,bottom=15mm}

    \usepackage[driverfallback = xdvipdfmx,
      bookmarks= true,
      bookmarksnumbered = false,
      bookmarksopen = true,
      colorlinks = false,
      pdfstartview=FitH,
      pdfauthor={author},
    pdftitle={\fullname}]{hyperref}

    \begin{document}

    \clearpage
    \nosection{Figures}
    \setcounter{page}{1}
    \centering
    {
      \hypertarget{figure1}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.1}{figure1}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{1.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
    {
      \centering
      \hypertarget{figure2}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.2}{figure2}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{2.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
    {
      \centering
      \hypertarget{figure3}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.3}{figure3}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{3.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
    {
      \centering
      \hypertarget{figure4}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.4}{figure4}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{4.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
    {
      \centering
      \hypertarget{figure5}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.5}{figure5}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{5.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
    {
      \centering
      \hypertarget{figure6}{}
      \pdfbookmark[2]{fig.6}{figure6}
      \includegraphics[height=0.45\textheight, width=0.95\textwidth, keepaspectratio]{6.eps}
      \captionof{figure}{the actual caption}
    }
\end{document}

[ssfjhh]

It is unexpected that the code works very well even after you remove \begin{figure} \end{figure}.

but the space between two pictures is to narrow, I need to add \vskip 1\baselineskip to make it wider.

And I still want to know what happened in my code.

[ssfjhh]

I found another way.

Replace the option "htb" with "H" of the first picture.

Only the frist two pictures is too close.

The space of others pictures is OK.