Grafical problem - need advice!!!

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

Hi,

I have problem related to figures:
I have 4 figures (all avvailable as either eps or pdf) and I want to combine those figures into a single figure and into one file (lets say a pdf).
They should be aligned in the following way

a | b
c | d

with a, b, c, d the 4 initial figures. So, each two figures side by side and then above each other.
Does anybody know a tool which can do this? Any hints and suggestions for me?

Cheers.

pathfinder · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

well, latex coud do it.
\begin{minipage}
\end{minipage}

example:
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{minipage}{7.7cm}
\includegraphics[width=7.5cm]{./pathtoyourfigure/figure1}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{7.9cm}
\includegraphics[width=7.9cm]{./same/figure2}
\end{minipage}
\caption{YOUR TITLE} \label{fig:errordlg}
\end{figure}

there is also another tool, I don t remember its name, but it is great for various pics...

pathfinder · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

o.k. I should say I know how to do it in latex but I want to have a solution that works without latex....
So that I can use the single figure file in latex instead of the 4 files before....
Any other ideas?

pathfinder · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

welll....
if you have the final figure in pdf, use IMPORT lastone.eps from the command line and select the area you want to keep, and use this one.

crappy but quick.

pathfinder · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject:

gimp?
powerpoint?
a copy paste with gimp?!!!
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c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

I never used gimp before... :-(

Is it hard to handle?

pathfinder · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

well... i scarcely used it.
it s a really powerful tool.
you may like it and find it easy.

personnaly, I know how to do this quicker with latex... but i m definitely not used with the gimp...
try it, this is not really difficult: it s select rectangle/whatever copy, paste, NEW, paste, save as instructions.
i mean: you could do it with paint... photoshop... gimp... even maybe pdf distiller...
tried openoffice?

doctork · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

The "convert" program from the ImageMagick package may provide what you need. It works on PNG files, but I've not used it on PDFs.
See the -/+ append options.

jlk

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

do you know how the specific options are for convert?

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

o.k., I managed to put 2 figures side by side using
the command: convert + append fig1.pdf fig2.pdf result.pdf

But I dont know how to put them above each other...?!

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

o.k. I got it now.
Thanks very much....

pathfinder · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:06 am Post subject:

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

convert +append fig1.pdf fig2.pdf tmp1.pdf
convert +append fig3.pdf fig4.pdf tmp2.pdf
convert -append tmp1.pdf tmp2.pdf fig3.pdf

I did a epstopdf to all my eps files before. This removed the extraneous frame around the original eps images. I don't know how to to this with convert...
The problem is then if I use eps files instead of the pdf then they don't fit on a page anymore due to this stupid and senseless white frame....
For some reason the epstopdf function seems to correct for this extra frame but I dont know why and how to mimic this behavior with convert.
Does anybody know?

pathfinder · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

sorry, no idea.
but good to know the -append and -append thing.