My problem is the following: I have a lot of figures to add in my report. These figures are usually about 0.4 of the height of the page. With the caption, the height is more like 0.55 or something. Anyway, two figures do not fit on one page.
In the end I'm left with something like this for example :
In the .tex file, this would look like this :
\documentclass[a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[pass]{geometry}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage[margin=0.8cm]{caption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 1}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 2}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 3}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 4}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 5}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\rule{\columnwidth}{10.5 cm}}
\caption{FIG 6}
\end{figure}
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\clearpage
\newpage
\section{Section 2}
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\end{document}
Usually, I add a '\clearpage' '\newpage' at the end of the section in order to avoid figures of section 1 to be found in section 2. So basically, see picture, I have :
- page 0 with the beginning of the section and comments about Fig. 1
- page 1 with Fig. 1 and comments about Fig. 2,3,4
- page 2 with Fig. 2 and comments about Fig. 5,6
- page 3 with Fig. 3 only
- page 4 with Fig. 4 only
- page 5 with Fig. 5 only
- page 6 with Fig. 6.
This last part, with only one single figure on pages 3, 4, 5 and 6 bothers me...
I would like to know if there is an option that allows me to change the geometry of the pages in order to fit two figures on one page once there is no more text. In the example, we would then have the exact same thing for page 0, 1 and 2 but then I would have
- page 3 with Fig. 3 and Fig. 4
- page 4 with Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.
I imagine I could clearly do it by hand, by simply compile the code I have already, look at my pdf and notice which figures are placed after the text. Then simply take them away from the text and use '\newpage' then include all these figures while changing the geometry of these particular pages... But I don't really like this idea and I wondered if it was possible to automize this.
I also wonder if it might even be possible to do this in the middle of the text : we see that on page 2, we are commenting Fig. 5 and 6 while Fig. 3, 4 have not yet been shown. Would it be possible to force Latex to change the geometry of this page and allow Fig. 3 to appear just after Fig. 2 (on the same page) then on the following page to have Fig. 4 and then the paragraphs about Fig. 5 and Fig. 6...
We would then have
- page 0 with the beginning of the section and comments about Fig. 1
- page 1 with Fig. 1 and comments about Fig. 2,3,4
- page 2 with Fig. 2 and Fig. 3
- page 3 with Fig. 4 and comments about Fig. 5 and 6
- page 4 with Fig. 5 and 6
(I don't know if all this is very clear but do not hesitate to ask if you want more information). I know I should let LaTeX do it for me, since it's its purpose, but I wondered if it might be done without too much effort.
Thanks !
\includefor figures. See When should I use\inputvs.\include?epsfigpackage (ever!) It was written in 1994 to emulate a package that was old then to help people move from latex2.09 to latex2e, why would you use it now?\includegraphics[..]{...}by\rule{3cm}{1cm}or whatever size produces an example that demonstrates the problem and can be reproduced locally.