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.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> > wrote: > > Hi Zhihao, > > Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: >> Hi Zhihao, >> >> Zhihao Ding <zhihao.d...@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
