[Tex/LaTex] How to get rotating and/or rotfloat to work

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Using LyX 1.6.5/MacTex-2009 my floating sideways figures only occupy half the page and the other half of the figure disappears off the left margin. I tried the rotfloat and rotating packages and they both give the same result.

The environment begins with \begin{sidewaysfigure}. The text is properly rotated but it just never gets past the half-way point of the page (along the short dimension in portrait).

Anyone have any ideas?

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This example is compilable and works as expected:

\documentclass[demo]{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}
\begin{sidewaysfigure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.5\textheight]{Test}
\caption{Test example}
\end{sidewaysfigure}
\end{document}

Perhaps do it like this or post some concrete code.

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An elemental approach with two turn environments and minipages. The result is the same with or without the added Lore ipsum dummy text.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} 
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\subsection{My sideways figure}
\lipsum[2]
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b][8cm][b]{6cm}
\begin{turn}{90}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=4]
    \fill[blue] (0,0) rectangle(2,1.5);  
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{turn}
\end{minipage}
\begin{turn}{90}
\begin{minipage}[c][1cm][c]{8cm}
\caption{Box plot of number of positions sent per iteration using this scheme.}
\label{fig:awesome_image}
\end{minipage} 
\end{turn}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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