How to put figures in LaTex in \documentclass[preprint,12pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}

Question

It said "

%% For including figures, graphicx.sty has been loaded in
%% elsarticle.cls

I do not know how to use that effectively. can you provide a worked example here.

For example

\usepackage{epsfig}
 \usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{placeins}
\begin{figure}
\caption{Damage at }
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig1.pdf}
\end{figure} 
\FloatBarrier

How should I place the figure within manuscript. Or do I need to bring them at the end of manuscript? (attention to elsarticle requirement). The code above is currently place figure randomly in somewhere doc. why?

Latex does not support tif, convert it into, say, png and include that — daleif, Feb 02 '16 at 19:50
@ daleif As far as I know .tif gives a good quality of resolution in a hard copy version of publication. .png is the worst, is it not? — Mohammad, Feb 02 '16 at 19:58
As long as the source is of good quality. Crappy we images will always be Crappy no matter the format. Have had good results scanning hi res images (diagrams from old books) on our photo copier, then converting it into png to be used in pdf for printing. — daleif, Feb 02 '16 at 20:02

Mico · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02T20:19:20.350

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How about

\documentclass[preprint,12pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\caption{abc} \label{fig:abc}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{<filename>}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Simply use a real filename, of an image file encoded in a supported format, instead of <filename>.

edited Feb 02 '16 at 20:19

answered Feb 02 '16 at 19:28

Mico

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@ Mico, let me try it NOW! It sounds very straightforward. – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 19:30
@ Mico \begin{figure} \caption{Damage at } \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig1.tif} \end{figure} why it does not work? – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 19:42
@Mohammad - the tif format isn't supported. Can you convert the tif file to a pdf format? – Mico Feb 02 '16 at 19:53
@ Mico, it is possible but how about its quality in printed version? – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 19:59
@Mohammad - Sorry, but I have no knowledge whatsoever of the pros and cons of various graphics formats. Maybe raise this question in a different group? – Mico Feb 02 '16 at 20:00
@ Mico, it still has an error after I convert .tif to pdf. Why? Should I call any package etc at beginning of doc? – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:01
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@Mohammad Exactly which error? – daleif Feb 02 '16 at 20:03
@ daleif pdfTeX error: /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex (file ./sample.pdf): xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:04
@ Mico, I think No. The answer is fine. You are asking to put simply a .filename.pdf in above code and it is supposed to work! correct? but it is not. as I copied error above. – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:10
Photo is changed it does work now. I think the issues was related to Pdf conversion. – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:18
@ Mico and @daleif How should I place the figure within manuscript. Or do I need to bring them at the end of manuscript? (attention to elsarticle requirement). The code above is currently place figure randomly in somewhere doc. why? – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:23
@Mohammad - LaTeX does nothing randomly. For an in-depth discussion of LaTeX's float placement algorithm, see Frank Mittelbach's answer to the question How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? – Mico Feb 02 '16 at 20:27
@ Mico, it is good to know this link. I realized that \FloatBarrier is also useful to use. – Mohammad Feb 02 '16 at 20:52

How to put figures in LaTex in \documentclass[preprint,12pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}

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