[Tex/LaTex] Page break between images of a figure

graphicssubfloats

I have several images in a figure which can not come on a single page. The images near the bottom are trying to insert inside the bottom instead of going to the new page. I am using a package \raggedbottom because earlier I was facing the problem of unusual space between equation.

Please suggest me, how can I move the images to the next page which are near the bottom.

The black line above is the bottom of first page.

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\subfloat[Original image]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/assignPixels/img1/image1}}\\%%Org 
\subfloat[Layer-1, Subgraph-1]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L1_SG1}} 
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L1_VI}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L1_Sal}}\\       
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L2_SG1}}%%Layer-2
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L2_SG2}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L2_VI}}      
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L2_Sal}}\\           
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_SG1}}%%Layer-3
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_SG2}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_SG5}}     
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_SG6}}\\   
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_VI}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L3_Sal}}\\       
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_SG1}}%%Layer-4
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_SG2}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_SG3}}     
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_SG8}} 
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_VI}}  
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width = 2in, height = 3cm, keepaspectratio]{bilder/concepts/GNGhierarchy/img1/L4_Sal}}
\caption{images}
\label{image}
\end{figure}

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Your issue with placement here seem to resolve when using the following:

Don't use a float. Instead, use the float package's [H] float specifier to set the float inside a minipage. This will give you preference over the (non-)float placement.
Break the float manually at the desired location.
Use \ContinuedFloat from the caption package to retain the existing \caption number.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum,graphicx,float}
\usepackage{subfig,caption}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]

\begin{figure}[H]
  \centering
  \setkeys{Gin}{width=2in,height=2cm,keepaspectratio}%
  \subfloat[Original image]{\includegraphics{example-image}} \\
  \subfloat[Layer-1]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}} 
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}  
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}} \\
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}%%Layer-2
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}
  \caption{images}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[H]
  \ContinuedFloat\centering
  \setkeys{Gin}{width=2in,height=2cm,keepaspectratio}%
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}%%Layer-3
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}\\
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}}%%Layer-4
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}}\\
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}%%Layer-5
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-c}}
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}
  \caption{images}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Placing the images using [H] removes the issue of the last page float being set vertically centred, since the float is set like regular text, which will end up at the top of the page.

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If the five images have the same aspect ratio, it's not difficult to solve the problem: let's say that the rectangles have base a and height a/r (with possibly different a each). Let's say we want to leave 12pt of blank space between the two halves and 3pt of space between the small figures.

We have thus to compute dimensions x and y, the bases of the big rectangle and of the small ones respectively, such that

x + 2y = \textwidth-12pt-3pt
x/r = 2y/r + 3pt

A bit of linear algebra will tell that

x = (\textwidth - 15pt + 3ptr)/2
y = (\textwidth - 15pt - 3ptr)/4

Let's say that r=2; then

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,subfig}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=\dimexpr(\textwidth-15pt+3pt*2)/2\relax]{fig1}}%
\hfill
\subfloat[]{\vbox{\offinterlineskip\halign{#\hskip3pt&#\cr
  \includegraphics[width=\dimexpr(\textwidth-15pt-3pt*2)/4\relax]{fig2}&
  \includegraphics[width=\dimexpr(\textwidth-15pt-3pt*2)/4\relax]{fig3}\cr
  \noalign{\vskip3pt}
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If the package subcaption is used instead of subfig, change \subfloat[] into \subcaptionbox{} (thanks to Axel Sommerfeldt).

I've used \halign to get a more precise control on the spacing.

If the figure on the left has a different aspect ratio than the ones on the right, it's not difficult either.

enter image description here

\halign is the TeX primitive on which tabular is built. There's too much to say about it; the main thing is the structure:

\halign{<template1>&<template2>&...\cr
<body>
}

The tokens up to the first \cr define the templates for the columns; each is separated from the following by &. A template consists of three parts:

<before>#<after>

<before> means tokens that are inserted at the start of each cell, # stands for the actual cell entry in the body, and similarly <after> means tokens that are inserted after the entry. For example a template for "centered cells" is

\hfil#\hfil

In our case the templates are trivial: #\hskip3pt and #; since all images will have the same width it's not necessary to specify anything else.

Notice that \halign, by default, doesn't insert intercolumn space; to be precise it inserts \tabalign glue, but talking about this would take too far away. The default value of the parameter is zero, anyway.

<body> is similar to the body of a tabular environment, but rows must be terminated by \cr and spaces before & and \cr are not ignored; those after them are. Also the final row must be terminated by \cr.

Between rows one can specify spacing (and other things) via \noalign.

To get precise control on spacing, I've said \offinterlineskip before \halign so that TeX will butt all rows together without interline glue. LaTeX does the same, actually. This is done inside a \vbox, so that the setting will be in force only there.

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A quick solution, with pictures changed:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}

\noindent \begin{tabular}{l l l}
CUSTOMER: &   \includegraphics[width=6cm,height=1.5cm,keepaspectratio]{at} & Date: \\%{% now "SHORT_DATE_FORMAT" %}\\
                         & {\url{ qb_full_name|upper }}      & \\
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{l l l}
REP:          & \includegraphics[width=6cm,height=1.5cm,keepaspectratio]{at}  & Date:  \\%{% now "SHORT_DATE_FORMAT" %}\\
                         & {\url{ qb_rep_name|upper }}
\end{tabular}


\bigskip
Second version:
\bigskip

\noindent \begin{tabular}{lc}
CUSTOMER: &   \includegraphics[width=5cm,height=1.5cm]{at}\\
\cline{2-2}
 & \multicolumn{1}{r}{ Date: 05/23/2013}
\end{tabular}
\hspace{1mm}
\begin{tabular}{l c}
REP:          & \includegraphics[width=6cm,height=1.5cm]{at}\\
\cline{2-2}
  & \multicolumn{1}{r}{\rule{0mm}{4mm} Date: 05/23/2013}
\end{tabular}


\end{document}

Two tables in one line. Package url for underline char. Frame around at.png is a picture. I have removed keepaspectratio to show the begaviour of Date: 05/23/2013, one of them with correction of depth.

enter image description here

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