I am writing one article in which i need to write one image and its caption. I found space after caption seems to be more than normal.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{image1.jpg}
\caption{\textcolor{gray}{\footnotesize \textit{ImageCaption}}}
\end{figure}
This is first text after caption.
How can i reduce the space between caption and text?
A quick way would be to use \vspace{} with negative length as input. However, this is not the right approach and is not recommended for use.
Without using vspace the output would look like:
Here is a MWE with vspace and negative length as input followed by the output.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{image}
\vspace{-1em}
\caption{\textcolor{gray}{\footnotesize \textit{ImageCaption}}}
\vspace{-1.5em}
\end{figure}
This is first text after caption.
\end{document}
Note how the use of vspace after the figure and after the caption shrinks the space.
\begin{figure*} is used vspace only deletes space from one column not the both
– alper
Dec 12 '22 at 19:06
caption, perhaps setting\aftercaptionskipwould work. Otherwise,\intextsepor\textfloatsep(see thelayoutspackage documentation; section 6.1 Float and text page layout, p 25). – Werner Feb 27 '13 at 07:36captionpackage the correct command is\captionsetup{belowskip=0pt}. But since this is the default value something is going wrong at your document. But to find out we need an MWE from you. – Feb 27 '13 at 07:53\raggedbottomhelp? (put it in your preamble) – JLDiaz Feb 27 '13 at 08:18figurefloat and the following text? -- that may not be anything to do with the caption itself (captionpackage’s\belowcaptionskipis zero by default, iirc). between the bottom of the float and the following text\intextsepis added, which is12ptby default: try setting that to0ptand see whether that helps. – wasteofspace Feb 27 '13 at 09:53\textcolor,\footnotesizeand\textitmanually into the caption text shows a lack of concept. The packagecaptionthat you claimed you use provides a lot of\captioncustomization on the document level, so that it applies consistently to all captions. – yo' Feb 27 '13 at 12:58\raggedbottomhelps is that it allows TeX to use empty space at the end of each page. By default, TeX tries to align the bottom line of all pages to the same point, and this is achieved by inserting extra vertical space among some elements, such as equations, figures, captions, etc.\raggedbottomremoves the inter-paragraph spacing and accumulates it at the bottom of the page, instead, much as MS-Word does, for example. – JLDiaz Mar 29 '18 at 20:09