insertgraphics not respecting bindingoffset on LH pages

Question

This is "messed up" and does not have the figure environment:

This is "not messed up" and has the figure environment:

What is causing this?

Thanks!!!

I am setting up a photobook and have everything working except the left pages with included graphics. Graphics on the right side have the bindingoffet, just not on the left side. All text sections and title pages have offset.

\documentclass[openright,twoside,12pt]{book}

Using these commands to insert images:

\newcommand{\addphoto}[1]{
\begin{figure}
\vspace*{.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1]{#1}
\newpage
\end{figure}
}

Which uses these packages:

\usepackage[bindingoffset=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}

Inserting test photos after text sections like this:

\section{City One}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\addphoto{gray_rect.jpg}
\addphoto{gray_rect.jpg}
\addphoto{gray_rect.jpg}

Thank you for all help! I don't know how to get the LHS images to be centered while respecting the bindingoffset which is of course needed for printing.

mark

added:

\documentclass[openright,twoside,12pt]{book}
    \usepackage[
    paperwidth=8.5in,
    paperheight=8.5in,
    bindingoffset=0.2in,
    left=1.25in,
    right=1.25in,
    top=1.25in,
    bottom=1.11in,
    includefoot
    ]{geometry}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage[usenames]{xcolor}
    \usepackage{fancyhdr} 
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
    \fancyhf{}
    \setlength{\footskip}{45pt}
    \fancyfoot[C]{\textcolor{gray}{\thepage}}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \graphicspath{ {images/} }
    \newcommand{\addphoto}[1]{
\begin{figure}
    \vspace*{-.8cm}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=5.5in]{#1}
    \newpage
\end{figure}
    }
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \parindent=0in
    \parskip=12pt
    \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
    \usepackage{titlesec}
    \newcommand{\sectionbreak}{\clearpage}
    \let\oldsection\section
    \renewcommand{\section}{\cleardoublepage\oldsection}
    \newcommand{\nosection}[1]{%
    \refstepcounter{section}%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}
    \markright{#1}}
\begin{document}
    \pagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty}
\frontmatter
\section{Forward}
    \lipsum[1-10]
\section{Introduction}
 Add content:
    \lipsum[1-10]
\mainmatter
\pagestyle{fancy}
\section{City One}
    \lipsum[1-3]
\newpage
\addphoto{example-image}
\section{City Two}
    \lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\addphoto{example-image}
\addphoto{example-image}
\section{City Three}
    \lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\addphoto{example-image}
\end{document};

Answer 1

• I have trouble to understand your question. I stripped down your code to a more minimal version.
• I also removed the \begin{figure} ... \end{figure} stuff as it's useless (as I understand your intention) as already mentioned in the comments.
• I also think that \vspace*{-.8cm} will cause trouble since you use the same negative vertical distance for every instance of your pictures.
• Maybe try to use the minimal code I propose and show your problem with the minimal code.

---

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 

    % OP's command
    \newcommand{\addphoto}[1]{
        %\begin{figure}
        %\vspace*{-.8cm}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=5.5in]{#1}
        \newpage
        %\end{figure}
    }
    \usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

    \pagestyle{empty}
    \tableofcontents
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \frontmatter

\section{Forward}
    \lipsum[1-10]

\section{Introduction}
    Add content:
    \lipsum[1-10]
    \mainmatter
    \pagestyle{fancy}

\section{City One}
    \lipsum[1-3]
    \addphoto{example-image}

\section{City Two}
    \lipsum[1-2]
    \addphoto{example-image}
    \addphoto{example-image}

\section{City Three}
    \lipsum[1-2]
    \addphoto{example-image}

\end{document}

Answer 2

The answer to my original question was simply that without scaling the image to the width of the text, the graphic placement was unpredictable -- so ensure you are scaled to fit inside your margins! The second question regarding using the figure environment, while users here are telling me that it's "useless," others locally (PhD students who use LaTeX all the time) have told me that it is how they always do it. . . so in this case, I guess the answer is, "There's lots of ways to do things in LaTex and as long as you get the desired results, it's all good!"

Best and thanks all!

Answer 3

The following puts the image in a center environment that centers the image horizontally and adds some vertical space.

Also the image is set in natural size unless its width is larger than the line width. In the latter case the image is limited to the line width, see this answer of David Carlisle).

\makeatletter
\def\maxwidth#1{\ifdim\Gin@nat@width>#1 #1\else\Gin@nat@width\fi}
\makeatother

\newcommand{\addphoto}[1]{%
  \begin{center}%
    \includegraphics[width=\maxwidth\linewidth]{#1}%
  \end{center}%
}

The horizontally ragged text is caused by \centering, if it is not used inside a group like the figure environment. Otherwise \centering is active until the end of the document unless overwritten by \raggedright or \raggedleft (or similar commands).

If the image should be used with \centering:

\par % end previous paragraph (it should probably not be centered)
\begingroup % group start to limit the scope of \centering
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\maxwidth\linewidth]{...}% see above
  \par % center the pragraph with the image and end paragraph.
\endgroup % group ends