General ⇒ wide graphics jut out from text on right AND left margin

[keckema]

Hi everyone,

I often use graphics in articles which are quite wide so that they jut out from the text body. I use the following code:


\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.15\textwidth]{example.jpg}
\end{figure}


My problem: These graphics only jut out from text on the right text margin. But I want them to jut out from the text symmetrically, i. e. to jut out on the right AND the LEFT margin in the same way.
Could anyone tell me the proper command?

Thanks a lot, Gereon

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Gereon,

welcome to the board!
You could use \makebox:

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\begin{figure}
\centering
\makebox[\textwidth]{\includegraphics[width=1.7\textwidth]{example}}
\end{figure}

Stefan

[keckema]

Thanks a lot, Stefan. Your suggestion works fine.

Gereon

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Gereon,

nice to hear that it helped. I just noticed that you could even omit the \centering of my example because \makebox uses \textwidth - I'm just used to give \makebox the width 0pt but with \centering what would work too.

Stefan