[Tex/LaTex] Control top and bottom margins of an image

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Using includegraphics seems to set default margins that gives a nice spacing between text and image. But I'd like to layout the text as close as possible to the image. How do I control the margins of an image?

Change from:

|     #TEXT######################### |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| #######################            |
|                                    | % <-- margin from image is a bit tall
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           **IMAGE.JPG**            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|                                    | % <-- margin from image is a bit tall
|     #TEXT######################### |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| #################                  |

To:

|     #TEXT######################### |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| #######################            | % <-- as close as possible
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           **IMAGE.JPG**            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|           *************            |
|     #TEXT######################### | % <-- as close as possible
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| ################################## |
| #################                  |

Best Answer

No, \includegraphics does not add any margins by itself. You seem to use it either inside a figure or center environment which both add margins.

The distance between floats like figure and table is defined by the lengths \textfloatsep and for figure* in twocolumn documents by \dbltextfloatsep. You can set these to zero to remove all separation.

Should you use the center environment instead, replace it with \centerline{\includegraphics[..]{..}}.

You can also add and remove some vertical space before and after the \includegraphics using \vspace{<length>} where the length can be positive or negative.

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I propose a horrible hack that should take into account all your needs:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}


\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{shell}{Verbatim}{
  commandchars=\%\{\},
  label=\shelltitle,
  frame=single,
  formatcom=\setcounter{prompt}{0}\start
}
\newcommand{\shelltitle}{This is a shell}

\makeatletter
\def\start{\let\FV@FV@ProcessLine\FV@ProcessLine
  \def\FV@ProcessLine{\noindent\vrule height3ex depth2ex 
                      \hbox to\hsize{\kern\FV@FrameSep This is the shell prompt\hfil}%
                      \kern-.8pt\vrule\par
                      \let\FV@ProcessLine\FV@FV@ProcessLine
                      \FV@ProcessLine}%
}
\makeatother

\newcounter{prompt}
\newcommand{\prompt}{\stepcounter{prompt}\theprompt>}

\begin{document}
\begin{shell}
%prompt echo foo{}
foo
%prompt echo bar
bar
\end{shell}
\end{document}

Act on 3ex and 2ex for modifying the spacing before and after the fixed "This is the shell prompt".

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[Tex/LaTex] How to set size of pdf page in pixels and put a background image

I downloaded the PNG of your self answer and did

file QXom4.png

getting the answer

QXom4.png: PNG image data, 600 x 399, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

Then I created the following file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=0pt,paperheight=399bp,paperwidth=600bp]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\parindent=0pt
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{QXom4.png}
\end{document}

This produced a PDF file with no margin whatsoever.

However, the simpler

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{QXom4.png}
\end{document}

did the same, because standalone automatically clips the PDF to the dimension of its contents.

The default value of 1px is equal to 1bp. Well, 1px is 65782 scaled points, while 1bp is 65781 scaled points (1pt = 65536 scaled points, the difference is negligible). It's not recommended to use it (if you don't set it in your document with \pdfpxdimen), because it can be changed at format creation.

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