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he \includegraphics{} command is used to add images to a document and can take several optional parameters in square brackets as well an example of this function is:

\includegraphics[width=3in,height=5in,keepaspectratio,scale=0.5]{<path to image file.png>}

Params

width: Obvious

- `width=\textwidth`: it will fit in within the span of a line of text or `width=0.5\textwidth` to fit it in 50% of the space of the width of your text span

height: Obvious keepaspectratio: uses width and height as maximum value args and make image keep its aspect ration scale: basically like saying the image should be a percentage of its original size so using a decimal like scale=0.5 for 50% scale angle: this will rotate the image and uses a 360 degree number for the angle of rotation

and to take an image and center it we can add it to the center environment

\begin{center} \includegraphics[width=3in]{<path to image file.png>} \end{center}

to center a figure you can use this example:

\begin{figure}
    \begin{center}
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{../Pictures/archLinuxLogo.png}
    \end{center}
\end{figure}

Figures are more flexible and they come with added bonuses like captions and automatic numbering which you can add or mess with this way

\begin{figure}
    \begin{center}
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{../Pictures/archLinuxLogo.png}
        \caption{this is my caption}
    \end{center}
\end{figure}

to center a figure you can also use the following command \centering with the figure code block

\begin{figure}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{../Pictures/archLinuxLogo.png}
        \caption{this is my caption}
\end{figure}

to keep a figure inline where you write it in you need to pass an optional arg to the figure command [h]

\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{../Pictures/archLinuxLogo.png}
        \caption{this is my caption}
\end{figure}

the optional arg [t] will put the figure at the top of the page

\begin{figure}[t]

and [b] will put it at the bottom

and [p] will put it on a page of its own

Params