fit full page multiple subfigures

Question

I want to arrange 33 subfigures by putting them in groups of 3, I tried the following solution:

\documentclass[smallextended,table]{svjour3} 
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
%start first row
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
 %end first row
....
%start last row...
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{IMG/IMG_RQs/cli/....pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

The output is partially correct, indeed, the figures occupy three columns, however, the last group of images is drawn outside the vertical margin of the document, as shown in figure

How can I fix it?

Please, can you provide a minimum working example which demonstrates the problem? — Celdor, Oct 20 '22 at 10:16
Note that graphicx provides a set of dummy images such as example-image, example-image-a, example-image-b etc. you could use with \includegraphics. This helps to provide a self-contained MWE. — Celdor, Oct 20 '22 at 10:21
Similars: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/211546/1952, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425560/1952 — Ignasi, Oct 20 '22 at 13:25
Do you want to fit all images into the same page or accept that they spread along different pages? — Ignasi, Oct 20 '22 at 13:27

Celdor · Answer 1 · 2022-10-20T10:46:03.450

As you cannot fit 33 images on one page, one simple solution would be to use longtable instead of figure. The adjustbox is added to set image dimensions in one place. Similarly, the macro \N is created to add the same vertical space after each row. A similar effect can be accomplished by changing arraystretch to a value larger than 1.0

\renewcommand\arraystretch{F}   % F>1.0 causes vertical stretch

but then change \N to the regular \\.

showframe is not important in the final version. It serves as a reference by drawing frames around all pages.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[Export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{showframe}   % For a reference in drafts
    \renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.2pt}
    \renewcommand\ShowFrameColor{\color{blue}}
\adjustboxset{width=0.28\linewidth}
\newcommand\N{\[10pt]}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{ccc}
    \caption{Set of N x 3 figures} \
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
    \includegraphics{example-image-a}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-b}
    & \includegraphics{example-image-c} \N
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '22 at 13:22

As an alternative to longtable proposed by Celdor, you can use a tcbraster from tcolorbox.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
\begin{tcbraster}[raster columns=3, blanker]
\foreach \i in {1,...,11}
    {\tcbincludegraphics{example-image-a}
    \tcbincludegraphics{example-image-b}
    \tcbincludegraphics{example-image-c}}
\end{tcbraster}
\end{document}

fit full page multiple subfigures

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