How to avoid text-spacing after inserting figure?

Question

I am trying to insert a little figure(logo) to a document without changing the vertical spacing.

I have two lines of text and I want to insert the figure in the align with the second line. I can do that simply with the code snippet:

{\bf The First Line }\\{\bf The Second Line} \hfill\includegraphics[height=24pt]{google}

After that, spacing between text changes according to the vertical size of the figure. I wish to have the same spacing after including the figure too.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Note \bf is a deprecated command not defined at all in the core LaTeX format (but added for compatibility reasons by some classes). \textbf{The First Line} would be better markup.

If you want the line never to be opened up even if the figure would overprint the line above then \smash{\includegraphics[height=24pt]{google}} The \smash command hides the height of its argument.

Answer 2

You may want to use a bottom aligned tabular:

\noindent{\bfseries
\begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
  First line\\
  Second line
\end{tabular}\hfill
\includegraphics[height=24pt]{google}