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Image Alignment [duplicate]

So my latex document looks like this: So as you can see, the picture is aligning vertically with the text, however I need it centered, in other words I need the image moved to the left more so the ...
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ConTeXt - Make text embody figure and respect margins

I am trying rewrite an already formatted layout to ConTeXt, but I face two major problems. Please have a look at the goal I am aiming at and at the source code below. I have tried many suggestions ...
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Picture not formatting to text width

I'm trying to format a picture so that it fills the text width however it always errors and fills the whole page. \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{circle} is the line I'm currently using also ...
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Create a “yearbook-style” multi-page layout of photos

I would like to create a "yearbook-style" layout of photos in LaTeX. Each photo would have a caption and the objective would be to automatically layout the differently sized rectangular photos to ...
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image negative left marign [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Center figure that is wider than \textwidth I'm using a fairly small width for my papers but this way my images get smaller. Is there a way to place images more to the ...
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Images, titles and margins

I am writing a report and I need two things: there must be an image in the title page at the top left and I have to add a 5mm left margin to odd pages and a 5mm right margin to even pages, how can i ...
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Problem with margins in documentclass article and package graphicx

I noticed that using the documentclass article and the package graphicx changes the displayed margins. Is that problem known and is it possible to avoid it?
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LyX: set width of image to 100% of page width

When I insert an image into LyX and set it to 100% page width, its left side is not at the farthest most edge of the left page. Instead it starts where the text margin is, and since it's too large to ...
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Scale figure to a percentage of \textwidth

I would like to change my figure's width to a precentage of my \textwidth: \textwidth /2 would scale to 50% of the \textwidth. What is the proper syntax (if any) to do this ?
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How to get the true width (including margins) of a page for inserting images? \textwidth and \textheight are too large

When I enter the following: text width in cm: \printinunitsof{cm}\prntlen{\textwidth} text height in cm: \printinunitsof{cm}\prntlen{\textheight} I see output: text width in cm: 15.11078cm ...
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Letting graphics overflow over page edge

I have an image in PDF format, which I want to show in a much larger format than what fits on the page. For the overflowing parts of the image, I just want it to disappear over the edge. I tried ...
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How to place an image over a _full_ (including bleed) page in memoir?

I need to include a jpg into my document created with memoir as a full separate page. The jpg is colored and has 3 mm bleed out into the stock paper. A bit naively I thought I could just use negative ...
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Allow centered graphic to overflow in margin [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Balancing figure that is wider than document's width I'm including a graphic with: \centering\includegraphics[width=xin]{some_name} This works fine as long as the ...
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How to make a graphic fill the rest of a given space?

Sometimes I use a figure numbering style in which each number is placed to the left of a figure. When using this formatting, I try to make sure that the space occupied by a given number and figure is ...
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How to have a figure touch the edge of the page?

How can I position a figure (picture) so that it: is aligned on the left-hand side with the text (this is in two column page) touches (or exceeds) the right-hand side of the page? An example can ...
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Scale (resize) large images (graphics) that exceed page margins

Background A large number of screen captures have been scaled 300% at 288dpi. They appear correctly when embedded in OpenOffice, but not LyX. Problem Images that do not extend beyond the margins ...