Landscape mode causes a blankpage

Question

I'm using this code for showing an image in landscape mode:

\begin{landscape}

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{./images/SelectDVA.png}
\caption{DVA part of the Use Case \ref{sec:use_case_2}.}
\end{figure}

\end{landscape}

This causes the output to have a blank page immediately after the rotated page containing the image.

It seems that using landscape causes a page break, is it true?

How can I prevent this behaviour?

Answer 1

landscape will not produce blank pages but cause a page break where it is introduced. This will result in undesired white space in the previous page. This can be avoided by using the afterpage package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-2]
\afterpage{
\begin{landscape}

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{example-image-a}
\caption{DVA part of the Use Case \ref{sec:use_case_2}.}
\end{figure}

\end{landscape}
}
\lipsum[3-8]

\end{document}

If you use pdflscape instead of lscape package,

Answer 2

A blank page can be caused by the figure (or table, etc) within the landscape environment exceeding the dimensions of the page's textwidth or textheight. In this case, we can manually define the page margins with \newgeometry{} and then revert back to the document default with\restoregeometry. For example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}

% Set some new page margins:
\newgeometry{a4paper,left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in,nohead}
\begin{landscape}
     % figure, etc
\end{landscape}
\restoregeometry % Restore the global document page margins

\end{document}

Or you can do it with \savegeometry{name} and \loadgeometry{name}. See http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.pdf

Answer 3

Have you checked this simple solution? I had a big, page-filling table and the landscape environment caused a blank page before the table. I noticed that the option [H] in \begin{table}[H] caused the blank page. If you use \begin{table}[htbp] instead, the annoying blank page is gone. [H] is useful to place the tables exactly where you position the command, but in conjunction with the landscape environment it is unnecessary.

Example:

\usepackage{lscape}

\begin{document}    
% some text    
\begin{landscape}    
\thispagestyle{empty} %if you want to suppress footer and header    
\begin{table}[htbp]    
...    
\end{table}    
\end{landscape}    
% continue with your text    
\end{document}

Answer 4

Another simple solution is turn 90° the content of a normal float (without [H]) using only normal (portrait) pages:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{figure}
\rotatebox{90}{
\begin{minipage}{\textheight}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{DVA part of the Use Case.}
\end{minipage}}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[3-7]
\end{document}

Answer 5

I have exactly the same problem as you. I have a landscape environment followed by a figure environment. The landscape environment introduces a blank page between the landscape environment and the figure environment. I solve this issue by accidentally changing \begin{figure} to \begin{figure}[H]. Have no idea why ...... but it works! I got the idea from this post: How to remove a blank page before landscape figure tabular? where they said removing [H] works, but for me adding [H] works.

Answer 6

I like this answer's approach of simply minimizing page margins. However, I am using KOMAScript and the geometry package doesn't seem to work well with it (as far as I know!). Thus, here's a hopefully KOMAScript-idiomatic way that worked for me:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{lscape}
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \storeareas\normalpapersize%
}
\BeforeRestoreareas{\cleardoublepage}
\begin{document}
% set some new page margins
  \KOMAoptions{DIV=16}
  \recalctypearea
  \begin{landscape}
    % figure, etc
  \end{landscape}
  \normalpapersize
\end{document}