Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Inserted figure looks cut

[ledian1983]

Hi everyone:

I'm kind of new using latex and I have a problem. I wrote a report in which I have some pictures and all of them look cut at the right and bottom sites (like 1 cm or so) and I don't know why.

I left white spaces at those sites in my figures and now I get the complete figures, but the caption does not fit exactly and it does not look like good. I am using emacs and miktex on Windows XP, my figures are all in .eps format and I look the preview with dvi yap viewer.

Does anyone know what I could do? I left a representation of my problem:
Original figure:
+---------------+
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
+---------------+
The inserted figure look like this (cut at the right and bottom):
+------------+
|00000000|
|00000000|
|00000000|
|00000000|
|00000000|
+------------+
I add white space at right and bottom:
+-------------------+
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
|0000000000000|
+-------------------+
Inserted figure looks ok, but caption does not fit:
+---------------+
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
|0000000000|
+---------------+
Figure 1: Representation of
a model from x ...

[localghost]

Please give a specific code example and attach the concerned image file for test purposes.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[ledian1983]

Thanks Thorsten for your answer. I was a bit busy and that's why I could post before.

The code I'm using is:

\begin{center} \begin{figure}[!h]
\includegraphics[width=4cm]{images/Ethane}
\caption[Ethane molecule]{Ethane molecule.} \label{fig:c2h6}
\end{figure} \end{center}

I attatched the original picture and I convert it to .eps using OpenOffice Draw.

Thanks in advance

[phi]

The conversion often fails to write the bounding box correctly. Since your picture is a bitmap, it could be better to switch to pdflatex to write PDFs directly. pdflatex is able to include PNG images. Otherwise try to correct the bounding box with ghostscript.

[localghost]

Nice looking Ethane molecule. Self made with a ray-tracing software? If so, check whether this software supports direct export to EPS. It would have been better if you attached the EPS file you produced (in a ZIP archive if necessary). Then testing is easier.

[ledian1983]

Hi there:

actually I did not think of a wrong conversion and that could be the reason. I copied this picture from a website in .png format, opened it with OpenOffice Draw, edited a bit (e.g. I changed the margins) and then exported as .eps format.

I am trying to understand the logic of all of this.

Thanks in advance

[phi]

perhaps you could use a different program. I've attached an example of an Ethane molecule with nice 3-D arrows which is interactive in Adobe Reader. If you want to start from that, I'll post the source code. Other possibilities would include drawing the molecule with a molecule visualizer program like PyMOL. PDB files which contain coordinates for many molecules are freely available on the web.