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I'm having difficulties arranging my 4 figures in a 2*2 and have them appear on different pages.

This is what it looks like: https://i.stack.imgur.com/rVCYW.jpg

This is the code that I tried (using Overleaf)

\begin{figure}[H]
     \centering
     \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
         \centering
         \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Images/beginner.png}
         \caption{Beginner}
     \end{subfigure}
     \hfill
     \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
         \centering
         \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Images/intermediate.png}
         \caption{Intermediate}
     \end{subfigure}
\newline
     \centering
     \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
         \centering
         \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Images/advanced.png}
         \caption{Advanced}
     \end{subfigure}
     \hfill
     \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
         \centering
         \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Images/expert.png}
         \caption{Experts}
     \end{subfigure}
        \caption{lorem ipsum}
\end{figure}

If i break it up into two pieces and insert

\end{figure}
\begin{figure}

then the problem is fixed but the captions become (a), (b) (a), (b).

I want the first and second figures to appear on the above page because there is a huge blank.

So like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/HPM2m.jpg

Zarko
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isuckatlatexsobadineedsomehelp
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  • For two pages, you need two figures. You can use \ContinuedFloat from the caption package to make the caption numbers match up. And [ht] will almost always look better than [H]. – John Kormylo Oct 25 '21 at 13:33

1 Answers1

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To divide the 2x2 subfigures to fill the blank space left at the bottom of a page (because the 2x2 does not fit but a 2x1 will):

(1) Create two figures using [ht!], with a 1x2 subfigures each.

(2) Add \clearpage after the first figure.

(3) Put \addtocounter{subfigure}{2} inside the first subfigure of the second page to continue the subfigures numbering.

(4) Decrease the number of the figure's by 1 since the 4 sub-figures are part of the same figure.

The second figure will go to the top of the second page with the right caption.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}


\usepackage{subcaption} % subfigures <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


\usepackage{kantlipsum}% dummy text for the example


\begin{document}


\kant[1-2]


%make two figures
\begin{figure}[ht!]
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{Beginner}
    \end{subfigure}
    \hfill
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{Intermediate}
    \end{subfigure}
\end{figure}


\clearpage % newpage and clear the floats


\begin{figure}[ht!]
    \addtocounter{figure}{-1}% added <<<<<
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \addtocounter{subfigure}{2}  % added <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{Advanced}
    \end{subfigure}
    \hfill
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{Experts}
    \end{subfigure}
    \caption{lorem ipsum}
\end{figure}


\end{document}
Simon Dispa
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