6

I have two figures I want them to be side-by-side, and I have two issues:

1) How to make both figures have the same size? I know that dimensions are not the same for both figures, but how can I make them the same? (both figures are in pdf format)

2) I want to include one caption for both figures.. say, Figure 1, but underneath the figure on the left side I want to put (a), and underneath the figure on right side I want to put (b).. so we have figure 1(a) and Figure 1(b).

This is ehat I have so far:

\begin{figure}
\centering
\mbox{\subfigure{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figure1_a.pdf}
\quad
\subfigure{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figure1_b.pdf} }}}
\caption{caption for figure 1}
\label{fig12}
\end{figure}
egreg
  • 1,121,712
user9292
  • 1,117
  • 2
    This might habe been answered here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/37581/21591 – mafp Feb 11 '13 at 00:19
  • Thanks, but how can i resize both figures to be the same? – user9292 Feb 11 '13 at 00:32
  • 2
    use height=5cm instead of scale=... – David Carlisle Feb 11 '13 at 00:33
  • I tried it, but still getting different heights... – user9292 Feb 11 '13 at 00:47
  • If you are getting different heights, it means that the bounding boxes aren't tight (white space above/below what you consider to be the figure). Where do the figures come from? – vonbrand Feb 11 '13 at 01:52
  • Any question about the figure environment is about dealing with figures. Your question is more specific. It would be nice if you could reflect that in the title. Also it would be nice if you could turn your code into a minimum working example. –  Feb 11 '13 at 08:37

1 Answers1

5

With graphicx you can set the width of the figure.

So you should do something like

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

Same width

\includegraphics[width=2cm]{example-image-16x10}

\includegraphics[width=2cm]{example-image-10x16}
\vspace{1cm}

Same height

\begin{minipage}[t]{2in}
     \hspace*{\fill}\includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-16x10}\hspace*{\fill}\par
     \hspace*{\fill}Caption for first\hspace*{\fill}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t]{2in}
    \hspace*{\fill}\includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-10x16}\hspace*{\fill}\par
     \hspace*{\fill}Caption for second\hspace*{\fill}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{1cm}

Same height and width (ick!)

\includegraphics[height=3cm,width=2cm]{example-image-16x10}
\includegraphics[height=3cm,width=2cm]{example-image-10x16}

\end{document}

enter image description here

A.Ellett
  • 50,533