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I am inserting several figures in my text with the \includegraphics command but some of them are not being placed correctly and they don't move when I change the command's parameters.

This works correctly:

\begin{figure}[h]\caption{\label{f5}Innovation intensity}
\includegraphics[width=10.9cm,height=6cm]{c:/RESULTADO15.eps}
\end{figure}

But this does not work:

\begin{figure}[h]\caption{\label{f9}Chi-Square for trigger factors group}
\includegraphics[width=10.9cm,height=6cm]{c:/clustertrigger.pdf}
\end{figure}

and 

\begin{figure}[h]\caption{\label{f9}Chi-Square for trigger factors group}
\includegraphics[bb=100 130 300 200,viewport=0 150 1000 380,scale=.6]{c:/clustertrigger.pdf}
\end{figure}

and also:

\begin{figure}[h]\caption{\label{dkpt} IT Employment in Denmark and Portugal}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[bb=-90 130 300 200,viewport=0 0 1000 380,scale=.4]{c:/dkpt.eps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

So, I have the problem both with EPS and PDF files. I tried changing bb, viewport, scale, width and height many many times with different values and the pictures are always in the same place. They don't move!! But some files are OK! I don't understand what's going on.

Can someone help me? I don't know what to try next because it seams as if the commands are not working proprely.

I am using MiKTeX.

Werner
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    It is very hard to offer any advice without a full document that shows the problem. You are using [h] which greatly rrestricts the places latex may place the float so increases the chance taht they go to the end of the document. rehoving [h] would be a good start. Otherwise add \usepackage[demo]{graphicx} so your document does not use real images just black rectangles and post a small complete document that shows the problem. – David Carlisle Apr 30 '13 at 18:06
  • If you are using latex and dvips you need .eps If you are using pdflatex you need .pdf you can not by default use both in the same document. Just omit the extensions and then each engine will find teh files it can handle – David Carlisle Apr 30 '13 at 18:10
  • [h] = "here" = "same place". (david carlisle already said this, but it bears repeating.) you're telling tex not to move them, and tex is doing what you're telling it to. – barbara beeton Apr 30 '13 at 19:47
  • Fantastic answer from Frank Mittelbach on the behaviour of floats in LaTeX. Highly recommended that you read this! How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? – oLas Apr 30 '13 at 20:30
  • I wasn't able to add the package[demo] as @DavidCarlisle suggested. – Maria Silva May 02 '13 at 14:19
  • Also tried adding \clearpage before and after the \includegraphics bloc of commands. Nothing changes. The same with \begin{center}\end{center}: the image is ALWAYS placed on the lower right part of the page. – Maria Silva May 02 '13 at 14:23
  • @MariaSilva How can you not be able to add [demo] to get\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} ? Also please don't add code to comments, edit your question and add a complete document there. You can not add \clearpage inside \begin{figure} if that is what you mean. – David Carlisle May 02 '13 at 14:42
  • Thank you for your comment. I already have the\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} working. This one was easy: I forgot to remove the \usepackage{graphicx}. Sorry for the mistake! I have \clearpage before and after the \begin{figure} and the\end{figure}`, respectively, not inside. But something surprising happened with the Demo: The black boxes appear on the right positions! Any idea of why it does not work with the regular graphicx package? – Maria Silva May 02 '13 at 16:15
  • It seams it is not a problem with TeX but with the picture files. But, what can that problem be? How can I solve it? I have other pictures that have no problem at all. – Maria Silva May 03 '13 at 12:35

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