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I m importing one image in latex document. But caption has bigger font than my normal text on page. 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

  Some text...

  \begin{figure}[htb]
  \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
  \caption{This is a figure.}
  \end{center}
  \end{figure}

   More text...

  \end{document}

How to reduce the font size of caption and space between caption and image?

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You can do it with caption package. The space between the caption and the figure is called skip (default is 10pt).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} %% Remove [demo] in your file
%\usepackage{caption}
%\captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt}     %% Adjust here
%or equivalently 
\usepackage[font=small,skip=0pt]{caption}

\begin{document}

  Some text...

  \begin{figure}[htb]
  \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
  \caption{This is a figure.}
  \end{center}
  \end{figure}

   More text...

  \begin{table}[htb]
  \centering
  \caption{This is a table.}
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
    \hline
    % after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
    1 & 2 \\
    4 & 7 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \end{table}

     More text...

  \end{document}

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Please note that \captionsetup{font=small,skip=0pt} affects both tables and figures. If you want it separately, you may use:

 \captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt}

for tables only or

\captionsetup[figure]{font=small,skip=0pt}

for figures only.

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    I was about to edit my answer to contain the explanation but you already have it in yours so I am deleting my answer :) – hpesoj626 Jan 16 '13 at 5:03
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    As much as I enjoy earning reputation, I enjoy better answers more. :) Making mine better is out of the question since it will look like a duplicate of your answer. +1 anyway. – hpesoj626 Jan 16 '13 at 5:10
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    @hpesoj626 Nice of you. I basically enjoy troubleshooting (and learning in turn). Everything comes next :-) – user11232 Jan 16 '13 at 5:15
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    @user15662 The setup here will affect both figures and tables. If you want to separate caption settings for tables and figures set \captionsetup[table]{} and \captionsetup[figure]{} separately. – hpesoj626 Jan 16 '13 at 6:52
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    How do I change the value of skip locally ? Not for all the document. – LMT-PhD May 7 '14 at 8:43
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For locally change the caption position you can also use a negative value on the setting. For example, when the figure has larger white part, e.g use \vspace{-1cm}, instead of changing the figure itself.

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A brute force \vspace{1pt} just before the caption, inside any figure, also works if one wants to change spacings locally.

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    Always? Surely not. This should add absolutely no correction in terms of the vertical spacing (since you've added 0pt). Can you elaborate? – Werner Apr 27 '17 at 19:37
  • If you replace 0 with other numbers of course. I edited the answer for clarity, thank you. – Carlo Galli Jul 16 '18 at 12:08
  • This didn't work for me when using multi-line captions – Mohamed Khamis Mar 30 '20 at 16:38
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Just add a vspace*{-3mm}:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.74\textwidth]{figs/Subplt.pdf}
    \vspace*{-3mm}
    \caption{Inverter-level and macro-level MAPE bootstrap distributions.}
    \label{Fig:Subplt_fig}
\end{figure}
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  • Same here as with your other answer. – Johannes_B Jun 16 '20 at 3:11

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