Here is an MWE. If you compile this to PDF, you get a half-empty page on the first page, as the last part of the text doesn't come up, but is forced onto a new page. Compare this with the same thing, but with the \begin{landscape}
removed.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\begin{document}
\chapter{blah}
blah blah
\section{something}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{figure}[p!]
\includegraphics{figures/someimage.pdf}
\end{figure}
\end{landscape}
A whole lot more text.
\end{document}
Thing is, I really need a full page landscape for this particular figure, because it has so much detail. Is there a way to do this that doesn't break the text flow so badly? (perhaps using another package? the pdflscape
documentation is horrendous – 14 pages, and only two lines dedicated to usage.)
Best Answer
landscape
does\clearpage
you don't want that, just use afigure
and rotate the image withor if you want the caption on its side as well use the
sidewaysfigure
environment from therotating
package