problem with figure on a0poster

Question

Iam trying to put a figure on my a0poster. But I get the error message: LaTeX error: Float(s) lost; and my figure is suppressed. I have subdivided my a0poster into regions using minipages. My figures are in eps-format. The figures get converted into pdf without problems. Could somebody give me a hint how to overcome my problem?

Answer 1

• Do not use \centerline but \centering
• Do not use \epsfig but \includegraphic from graphicx

• Do not use floats on a poster as this does not make sense

  % arara: pdflatex
  
  \documentclass{a0poster}
  \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
  \usepackage{showframe} % for demo
  
  \begin{document}
  \noindent\fbox{% % for demo
  \begin{minipage}{50cm}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=20cm,height=10cm]{file=fig_pub/post_hk70_income01.eps}
  \end{minipage}
  } % for demo
  \end{document}
  

Answer 2

I found a solution to the problem myself: eliminate the figure(begin end) and just enclose something like

\centerline{\epsfig{
file=fig_pub/post_hk70_income01.eps,
width=20cm,height=10cm}}

The caption I do in the text.