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I am trying to put arrows between images. I did not want to put arrow images, I prefer LaTeX way solution. I used pointer from wasysym package. The result can be seen below. I know those arrows are considered as text, so they are tiny.

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How can I put centered, big arrows between images?

nimcap
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3 Answers3

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You could use \vcenter for vertical centering. It requires math mode. You could use font commands for scaling arrows or \scalebox or \resizebox of the graphicx package.

Define macros, so you could make adjustments easily.

Here's an example, using your pointer of wasysym:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand*{\vimage}[1]{\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics{#1}}}}
\newcommand*{\vpointer}{\vcenter{\hbox{\scalebox{2}{\Huge\pointer}}}}
\begin{document}
$\vimage{one}\vpointer
\vimage{two}\vpointer
\vimage{three}$
\end{document}

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Stefan Kottwitz
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  • How would you change those colors to say "yellow"? Cant get it to work – eleijonmarck Oct 20 '15 at 17:48
  • @eleijonmarck You could use one of the commands \color or \textcolor. Perhaps post a new question if you don't know these commands or how to use them here. You can link to here. Comments are just not for solutions or alternative way or follow-up questions. – Stefan Kottwitz Oct 20 '15 at 19:17
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I used this image and rename it as newton.jpg.

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Adjust the parameter until it suits your need.

\documentclass[final,cmyk,table]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsbsy}%bold math
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{calc}

% adjust until suit your need.
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{0pt}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{10pt}% you can change to a smaller. E.g., 5pt or less.
\arrayrulecolor{red}
\newenvironment{MyCrazyTable}[6][2cm]%
{%
    \newcolumntype{O}[1]%
    {%
        >{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][#1][c]%
            {%
                    ##1\linewidth-2\tabcolsep-1.5\arrayrulewidth%
            }%
            \vspace{\tabcolsep}%
         }%
        c%
        <{%
                \vspace{\tabcolsep}%
                \end{minipage}%
         }%
    }%
    \newcolumntype{I}[1]%
    {%
        >{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][#1][c]%
            {%
                    ##1\linewidth-2\tabcolsep-\arrayrulewidth%
            }%
            \vspace{\tabcolsep}%
         }%
        c%
        <{%
                \vspace{\tabcolsep}%
                \end{minipage}%
         }%
    }%
    \begin{longtable}%
    {%
        |>{\centering}O{#2}%
        |>{\centering}I{#3}%
        |>{\centering}I{#4}%
        |>{\centering}I{#5}%
        |>{\centering}O{#6}%
        |%
    }%
    \hline\ignorespaces%
}%
{%
    \end{longtable}%
}

\newcommand{\myrow}{%
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{newton.jpg}%
&%
\scalebox{1.1}{$\boldsymbol{\longrightarrow}$}%
&
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{newton.jpg}%
&%
\scalebox{1.1}{$\boldsymbol{\Longrightarrow}$}%
&
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{newton.jpg}%
\tabularnewline\hline%
}



\makeatletter
\newcommand\ratio[2]{%
  \strip@pt\dimexpr#1pt/#2\relax
}
\makeatother  


\begin{document}
\begin{MyCrazyTable}[5cm]%
    {\ratio{9}{33}}%adjust please
    {\ratio{3}{33}}%adjust please
    {\ratio{9}{33}}%adjust please
    {\ratio{3}{33}}%adjust please
    {\ratio{9}{33}}%adjust please
\myrow
\myrow
\end{MyCrazyTable}
\end{document}

You can show the frame by changing \setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{1pt} as shown below. alt text

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\def\Arrow{\raisebox{-.5\height}{\scalebox{4}{$\Rightarrow$}}}
\def\Image#1{\raisebox{-.5\height}{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{#1}}}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

\Image{foo}\Arrow%
\Image{bar}\Arrow%
\Image{baz}

\end{document}