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I'm relatively new to LaTeX and trying to come to grips with it. I understand I can resize a figure to fit the column width or text height quite easily:

\includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]...

or

\includegraphics[height=.1\textheight]...

I was wondering if there is an easy way to get a figure and its caption to fit in a page.

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Welcome to TeX.sx! – egreg Dec 21 '12 at 16:06
Do you only want to scale the figure or do you want to scale the font size of the caption too? – jonalv Dec 21 '12 at 16:09
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if the figure itself is fit to the \textheight, there won't be enough space for the caption. nonetheless, if you put it into a float -- \begin{figure][p] -- it will stay together, but you will get a complaint that it's too large. you might try to apply a scaling factor, e.g. [scale=.8], instead of the height or width to get it to an acceptable size. – barbara beeton Dec 21 '12 at 16:09

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Generally it's better really to design the figure to fit (or scale by a fixed amount) scaling arbitrary sized figures to fit the page means that each scales by a different amount so you get inconsistent font sizes in each figure.

However for when you need it you can go

\begin{figure}[p]
\includegraphics[height=\dimexpr \textheight - 4\baselineskip\relax]{myfig}
\caption{zzzz}
\end{figure}

assuming 4 lines worth of space is enough for your caption and its surrounding space. Using [p] as clearly it can not fit on a text page if it is that big.

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