Big picture with several smaller ones on the side with subfigure/subfig

Question

I want a solution the problem discussed here, but using subfigure (or subfig) instead of subcaption.

The question by @Makers_F was: I'm trying to achieve an effect like:

 _____    ___   ___
|     |  |___| |___|
|     |   ___
|_____|  |___|

The solution with subcaptions by @egreg is pasted below, but it doesn't work with subfigure or subfig.

a\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\newbox{\bigpicturebox}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering

\sbox{\bigpicturebox}{%
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{.45\textwidth}
  \scalebox{1}[1.2]{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}}%
\caption{Big picture}
\end{subfigure}
}

\usebox{\bigpicturebox}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\ht\bigpicturebox][s]{.45\textwidth}
\begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}

\vfill

\begin{subfigure}[b]{.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-c}
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}
\end{minipage}

\bigskip

\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}\hfill
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-c}
\caption{Small figure}
\end{subfigure}

\end{table}

\end{document}

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '19 at 18:17

2

The following MWE uses the subfig package. I decided to use this package instead of subfigure as this packages was superseded by subfig.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\newbox{\bigpicturebox}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering
\sbox{\bigpicturebox}{%
  \subfloat[First sub-figure\label{subfig-1:dummy}]{%
       \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image}
     }%
}%
\usebox{\bigpicturebox}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\ht\bigpicturebox][b]{.45\textwidth}
\subfloat[First sub-figure\label{subfig-2:dummy}]{%
       \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image}
     }%
     \hfill
     \subfloat[First sub-figure\label{subfig-3:dummy}]{%
       \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image}
     }%
\vfill
\subfloat[First sub-figure\label{subfig-4:dummy}]{%
       \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image}
     }%
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

\end{document}

answered Jun 25 '19 at 18:17

leandriis

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How can we add a caption for the whole figure without it saying "table"? – user7867665 Jun 25 '19 at 18:51
1

@user7867665: Replace \begin{table} and \end{table} by \begin{figure} and \end{figure}. – leandriis Jun 25 '19 at 18:54
Thanks! What is the use of the first \newbox{\bigpicturebox}? Everything works without it. – user7867665 Jun 26 '19 at 10:05
do you know how I can change the order. Have the big picture on the right and two small ones on the left? – user7867665 Jun 26 '19 at 10:27
Got it, just put \hfill on the bigger box and put it after the minipage – user7867665 Jun 26 '19 at 10:31

Big picture with several smaller ones on the side with subfigure/subfig

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