New command, load multiple images

Question

I have to load multiple images to my thesis. Its about 320 pictures to shortcut this, I want to make a new command to load them more flexible.

My basic idea was to create a new command with multiple agruments which will load all pictures in correct places becouse sequence is important. Pictures will be loaded from /gfx/part1..partn/ directories.

Pictures should be placed like on the attachment. Could anyone give me a little help if the idea is correct, or there is other, easier way to do this ?

Cheers, jilsu

Answer 1

If you need the same layout of seven pictures over and over again for part1 to partN and assuming the pictures in each of the /gfx/partx/ folders are called pic1 to pic7, the below code should give you an idea of a definition of a new command to help you out. Note: I have omitted label and caption from all but the first subfigure, but they may of course be included at leisure - provided the labels are constructed in a way they remain unique, i.e. including the #1 to get the parameter that was passed to the command.

\documentclass[draft]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\newcommand{\includegraphicsset}[1]{%
    \begin{figure*}
        \centering
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic1}
            \caption[short]{the largest picture in the set}
            \label{fig:set#1large}
        \end{subfigure}
        \\\vspace\baselineskip
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic2}
        \end{subfigure}
        \hfill
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic3}
        \end{subfigure}
        \hfill
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic4}
        \end{subfigure}
        \\\vspace\baselineskip
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic5}
        \end{subfigure}
        \hfill
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic6}
        \end{subfigure}
        \hfill
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{/gfx/part#1/pic7}
        \end{subfigure}
        \caption{A set of pictures}
        \label{fig:set#1}
    \end{figure*}
}

\begin{document}
    \includegraphicsset{1}
    \includegraphicsset{2}
\end{document}

Using the Example-Image, this will give a layout like this:

Note: the aspect ratio of all the images is that of the original image, i.e. if your source image for the top image has the aspect ratio in your example that will be preserved with the above code.

Answer 2

It is not really clear what your question is, \includegraphics can be placed or positioned in the same ways as any letter such as X in this case a simple center environment may be enough, although other possibilities of course:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\setlength\lineskip{5pt}
\setlength\spaceskip{\fill}
\includegraphics[width=.8\textwidth]{example-image-16x9}
\includegraphics[width=.25\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\includegraphics[width=.25\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\includegraphics[width=.25\textwidth]{example-image-c}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{example-image-c}
\end{center}
\end{document}