Re: position figures side by side in PDF output

[Zhihao Ding <zhihao.ding@imm.ox.ac.uk>]

Thanks a lot Andreas and Rasmus! 
The solution using the subcaption package works best for me. 

Best, 
Zhihao



> On 20 May 2015, at 22:03, Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Zhihao,
> 
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>> Hi Zhihao,
>> 
>> Zhihao Ding <zhihao.ding@imm.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>> 
>>> Could anyone give me some advice on how to position figures side by side in PDF output?
>>> I am trying to write a report, while my figures were all originally produced individually.  I’d like 
>>> to put them, mostly two, sometimes three, side by side sharing a same caption and label. 
>>> Below is the syntax I am using now, which can only do one figure. 
>> 
>> Does this thread answer your question?  It would give you individual
>> subcaptions, but you need not use them.
>> 
>>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-11/msg00548.html
>> 
>> Otherwise you could use e.g. imagemagick to stick together figures.
>> 
> 
> As an alternative you could use a table.
> + easy
> + orgmode only (should work across backends)
> - no scaling of images
> - it is a table for latex (i.e. will appear in list of tables, etc.)
> 
> Here is a short example for the table approach and an imagemagick-based
> solution as proposed by Rasmus.
> 
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * generate images						   :noexport:
> #+name: image1
> #+begin_src R :results graphics :file img1.pdf
>  plot(1:10)
> #+end_src
> 
> #+results: image1
> [[file:img1.pdf]]
> 
> #+name: image2
> #+begin_src R :results graphics :file img2.pdf
>  plot(1:5)
> #+end_src
> 
> #+results: image2
> [[file:img2.pdf]]
> 
> * export side-by-side
> 
> ** table
> #+caption: stitching side-by-side using tables
> | [[file:img1.pdf]] | [[file:img2.pdf]] |
> 
> ** using imagemagick
> 
> *** function							   :noexport:
> #+name: sidebyside
> #+begin_src sh :session none :results file replace :var im1="im1.png" :var im2="im2.png" :var outname="out.png"
>  convert "$im1" "$im2" +append "$outname"
>  echo "$outname"
> #+end_src
> 
> *** test
> #+name: combinedfig
> #+call: sidebyside(im1="img1.pdf", im2="img2.pdf") :results file
> 
> #+caption: stitching side-by-side using imagemagick
> #+results: combinedfig
> [[file:out.png]]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas