Figure reference management

Question

I'm writing an academic report and it is required that I include my figure/picture references (almost exclusively URLs). Already tried to use BibLatex to make sub-bibliographies but that proved to be too unstable. Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this?

Answer 1

The figbib package provides a way to manage figure references in BibTeX databases. A small example:

document.tex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{figbib}
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
The Stack Exchange logo is shown in \fbref{stackexchange}.
\fbEpsfig{stackexchange}{5cm}{htbp}
\fbList{figures} 
\end{document}

figures.bib

@FIG{stackexchange,
    main = {The Stack Exchange logo},
    add = {additional description},
    file = {StackExchange},
    source = {\url{http://stackexchange.com/img/StackExchange.png}}
}

Compiled output result:

Don't worry about the name of the \fbEpsfig command, it works fine with PNG or PDF images, too. More information on how to use figbib can be found in the package documentation.

You may want to additionally use the figbib_add package from the thesis-titlepage-fhac bundle: It gives you the possibilty to manage figures created for example with pgf/TikZ in the same way as external images with figbib:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \draw (0,0) circle (1cm);
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{A circle}
    \label{figbib:circle} % prefix "figbib:" is necessary
    \fbEntry{circle}
\end{figure}