How can I rotate a 'sidewaysfigure'?

Question

I would like to rotate mysidewaysfigure to face towards the left rather than the right (i.e. from 90 degreed to 270 degrees). Does anyone know how I can do this using the sidewaysfigure environment?

Here is my code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[demo]{rotating}
%\usepackage[figuresleft]{rotating}
\begin{document}
\begin{sidewaysfigure}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{example-image-a}
    \caption{text here}
    \label{fig:mine}
\end{sidewaysfigure}
\end{document}

Answer 1

To have the bottom edge of the figures be placed on the left, load the rotating package with the option figuresleft. By the way, this option affects the orientation of sidewaysfigures and sidewaystables, not just of sidewaysfigures.

Incidentally, since the rotating package loads the graphicx package automatically, there's no need to load graphicx separately.

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Addendum: If you want the orientation of the sidewaysfigure and sidewaystable environments to alternate between odd-numbered and even-numbered pages, do not specify either figuresleft or figuresright. Instead, use the document class option twoside -- or use a document class, such as book, that invokes the twoside option by default. That said, I suspect that your readers might strongly dislike having to crane their necks first to one side and then to the other to take in your figures. Better to stick with a single orientation...

Answer 2

Here you go

Code 1

\begin{figure}[h]
  \begin{sideways}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{bear}
  \end{sideways}
  \centering
  \caption[Caption]{Bear}
  \label{pic:picture}
\end{figure}

Result 1

Code 2

\begin{figure}[htb]
  \centering
  \begin{turn}{-90}
  \begin{minipage}{3in}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{bear}
  \caption{Bear}
  \label{fig:bear}
  \end{minipage}
  \end{turn}
\end{figure}

Result 2

Sure you can mix and use what you want! Hope it helps

Answer 3

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hvfloat}
\begin{document}

\hvFloat[objectAngle=90]{figure}{%
    \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{example-image-a}}%
    {text here}%
    {fig:mine}%

\hvFloat[objectAngle=90,capAngle=90,capPos=right]{figure}{%
    \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{example-image-a}}%
{text here}%
{fig:mine2}%

\end{document}