[Tex/LaTex] Continuation of figure in tabular format in multiple pages

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I am facing problem writing my thesis in Latex. The trouble is I have a bunch of figure that I want to present in tabular format (shown in the picture below) but the figure is larger and do not fit in a page as well as it is not continued in next page instead some part of the figure goes missing. Please have a look the code I wrote and It will be really helpful if someone can help me figure out this problem:

\documentclass[ final, oneside,12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}
        \centering
        \begin{tabular}{c c}
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{1.eps} & 
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{2.eps} \\

            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{3.eps} & 
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{4.eps} \\ 

            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{5.eps} & 
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{6.eps} \\

            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{7.eps} & 
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{8.eps} \\

            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{9.eps} &
            \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{10.eps} \\

        \end{tabular}
        \caption{Trying to fit this image in }
        \label{fig: HF vs epsilon}
    \end{figure}
 \end{document}

Figure should be some thing like shown below. The image in the picture is scaled down so that it fits in a page but for my problem it is larger and do not fit in one page and do not continue to the next page.

Best Answer

For arrangement images as multi page figure you have more possibilities:

not use float environment and put images into longatble
use floats and divide images between them and for caption use \ContinuedFloat option from package caption.

The first case:

\documentclass[ final, oneside,12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
{
        \centering
\begin{longtable}{c c}
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\
\end{longtable}
\captionof{figure}{Trying to fit this image in }
    \label{fig: HF vs epsilon}
}
 \end{document}

The second case:

\documentclass[ final, oneside,12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}
        \centering
\begin{tabular}{c c}
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{figure}{Trying to fit this image in (continued on the next page}
    \label{fig: HF vs epsilon}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{figure}
\ContinuedFloat
    \centering
\begin{tabular}{c c}
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\

    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} &
    \includegraphics[width=.40\textwidth]{example-image} \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{figure}{Trying to fit this image in (continued from previous page)}
    \label{fig: HF vs epsilon}
     \end{figure}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Avoid showing all figures at the end of the text by setting \topfraction to a value larger than 1.0

The statements made in those tips are only partially correct and in my opinion should not be taken too seriously.

Correct is:

if a figure is larger than a full page then LaTeX changes the size of the figure to be \textheight (or rather make it appear so to the algorithm, the actual size is not changed) and gives a warning about this. So it will not prevent the float from fitting on a float page.
if floatpagefraction is larger than \topfraction then indeed a single float that has size between the two values can't be placed neither in the top area nor will it fit onto a float page without another float coming along (or a \clearpage). So in documents that have very few floats it might pose an issue. On the other hand, for many document scenarios such a setting can be quite sensible to avoid half empty float pages, especially in cases where the typical float sizes are small.
setting \topfraction to something larger than 1 (as suggested in the title of the question) does not make sense. In fact it doesn't even make sense to put it larger than (1-\textpagefraction). Otherwise you have inconsistent settings and that may potentially result in strange reactions from the algorithm.

A general comment here is that there aren't settings that can work well in all scenarios. The default settings used in the standard LaTeX classes (article, report, book) is trying to get the floats out reasonably fast at the cost of allowing half-empty float pages. For good layout that is rather loose, so adjusting it is often called for. In a final document one then may have to overwrite those setting on individual floats by using !-notation so that a float can move into a certain area even if the settings normally would prevent it.

As David said: a more extensive explanation on how the algorithm works is given in How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

[Tex/LaTex] Determine height of tabular

You have to remember that \settoheight measures the height, but tabular environments also have a depth; so we need to take also the depth into account. Here's a proposal; the total height of the (resized) table is stored in the register \tableheight:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\newsavebox{\tablebox}
\newlength{\tableheight}
\newenvironment{resizedtabular}[1]
 {\begin{lrbox}{\tablebox}\begin{tabular}{#1}}
 {\end{tabular}\end{lrbox}%
  \sbox{\tablebox}{\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\usebox{\tablebox}}}%
  \global\tableheight=\ht\tablebox
  \global\advance\tableheight\dp\tablebox
  \usebox{\tablebox}}


\begin{document}

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{0.50\textwidth}
\centering
\begin{resizedtabular}{lll}
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi
\end{resizedtabular}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{0.50\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\tableheight]{a}
\end{minipage}

\bigskip

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{0.50\textwidth}
\centering
\begin{resizedtabular}{llllll}
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi \\
abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi & abcabcabc & defdefdef & ghighighi
\end{resizedtabular}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{0.50\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\tableheight]{a}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

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