[Tex/LaTex] How to do 2X3 subfloats for a figure

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I have 6 figures of the same size and I would like them to be subfiqures in a figure in the format so that they are all aligned with 3 figures on the first row and 3 figures directly below.

I have tried the following which gives me 3 figures in each row but are all misaligned (I use the subfig package but it causes a problem as I have the subcaption pacakage too):

    \usepackage{tabularx}
    \usepackage{subfig}
    \begin{figure}
    \def\tabularxcolumn#1{m{#1}}
    \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}cXX@{}}

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    \centering
    \subfloat[A]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image1}} 
    & \subfloat[B]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image2}} & \subfloat[C]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image3}} \
    \newline
    & \subfloat[D]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image4}}   \subfloat[E]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image5}} 
    & \subfloat[F]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image6}}\    \end{tabular}

    \end{tabularx}
    \caption{Many figures}\label{figure}
    \end{figure}

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Edit: I complete my code snippet to MWE and add image of figures.

I'm pretty sure, that your question is duplicate ... anyway, try the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}

\centering
\subfloat[A]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-a}}\hfil
\subfloat[B]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-b}}\hfil 
\subfloat[C]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-c}} 

\subfloat[D]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-a}}\hfil   
\subfloat[E]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-b}}\hfil
\subfloat[F]{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-c}}
\caption{Many figures}\label{figure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

which gives:

As you can see, the use of tabularx and tabular is superfluous.

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Do not leave blank lines between the subfigures. You can try something like this:

\documentclass[10pt, conference, compsocconf]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}   
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{mdwmath}
\usepackage{mdwtab}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\subfloat[A]{\label{ex0}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qa}}\hfill
\subfloat[B]{\label{ex1}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qb}}\hfill
\subfloat[C]{\label{ex3}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qc}}\\
\subfloat[D]{\label{ex4}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qd}}\hfill
\subfloat[E]{\label{ex5}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qe}}\hfill
\subfloat[F]{\label{ex6}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{qf}}
\end{figure*}

\end{document}

I used \includegraphics form the graphicx package instead of \epsfig from the obsolete epsfig package. Instead of forcing a \quad space between the figures, you can use \hfill which will distribute the spacing evenly.

I used the demo option for the graphicx package to make my example compilable for everyone. Do not use that option in your actual code.

If you don't mind using the subcaption package (this package behaves better than subfig, See subcaption vs. subfig: Best package for referencing a subfigure), you could use something like this:

\documentclass[10pt, conference, compsocconf]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}   
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{mdwmath}
\usepackage{mdwtab}
\usepackage[font=footnotesize]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qa}
  \caption{A}
  \label{ex0}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qb}
  \caption{B}
  \label{ex1}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qc}
  \caption{C}
  \label{ex2}
\end{subfigure}\\
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qd}
  \caption{D}
  \label{ex3}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qe}
  \caption{E}
  \label{ex4}
\end{subfigure}\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.3\linewidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{qf}
  \caption{F}
  \label{ex5}
\end{subfigure}
\end{figure*}

\end{document}

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The caption package version you use is too old to work fine with the actual version of hyperref.

That's explaining both issues, the wired behaviour when used with the subfig package, and the error you get when using the subcaption package. So updating the caption package (or even better: your whole TeX system) should help.

(Current versions of the hyperref package need at least caption v3.1m from 2010/01/09)

Addendum: The very next version 1.1b of the subcaption package will typeout a more reasonable error message.

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