[Tex/LaTex] How to put table and PNG next to each other in the same figure

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How can I put a table and a PNG (using \includegraphics) next to each other in the same figure, in the following way?

             +----+
    +-----+  |png |
    |table|  |png |
    |table|  |png |
    +-----+  +----+
  Figure 4.1: Caption

So the table and the PNG are aligned at the bottom.

I tried to just put both in a table (2 columns), but the objects are not aligned at the bottom.

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You need to align the table with its baseline by passing it the optional [b] placement argument. After that you can just put them side-by-side. Here's an example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}\centering
  \begin{tabular}[b]{|cc|}
    \hline a & b \\ c & d \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \qquad
  \rule{2cm}{3cm}% = graphic
  \caption{Double figure/table combo!}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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You can use the subcaption package (a powerful companion to the caption package):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\DeclareCaptionFormat{subfig}{\figurename~#1#2#3}
\DeclareCaptionSubType*{figure}
\captionsetup[subfigure]{format=subfig,labelsep=colon,labelformat=simple}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{.5\linewidth}
    \centering
    \rule{4cm}{3cm}
    \caption{A subfigure}
    \label{fig:1a}
  \end{subfigure}%
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{.5\linewidth}
    \centering
    \rule{4cm}{3cm}
    \subcaption{Another subfigure}
    \label{fig:1b}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{A figure with two subfigures}
  \label{fig:1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Join figure and table on the same page

I gather that the figure should be at the very top of a page, to be followed immediately by the table environment. (Moreover, I'm taking for granted that the two environments will actually fit on a single page, right?)

You could achieve these objectives by loading the afterpage package and "encasing" the figure and table environments in an \afterpage{...} statement, as is shown in the following code fragment:

\afterpage{%    % defer execution until the next page break occurs anyway
   \begin{figure}[t!] % not "pt"
      \centering
      % remaining contents of figure environment
   \end{figure}
   \begin{table}[h!] % not t or b or p
      \centering
      % remaining contents of table environment
   \end{table}
} % end of argument of `\afterpage` command

I'm further assuming that there are no deferred figure and/or table environments already waiting to be typeset. If that were the case, you should issue a \clearpage instruction as the very first item in the argument of the \afterpage command. (Even if there are no accumulated deferred floats to take care of, there's no harm done by issuing a \clearpage instruction anyway at the start of the \afterpage material; it would simply be ignored by TeX.)

In addition, if the figure and table environments combined take up most of the page (say, more than 75% of the page), you may also want to issue a second \clearpage instruction, following the end of the table environment. This will tell LaTeX that you want to have just those two floats on the page in question.

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