floatsminipagepositioningscaling
I have two graphics of different dimensions which I would like to put into my document side by side such that:
I have seen the mini-page approach to side-by-side figures, but you have to declare the size of the mini-pages ahead of time. That will not work here.
You can put minipages inside a figure environment and get separate captions for each of them.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
How can I put two figures side-by-side? Not two sub-figures, but two actual figures
with separate "Fig.: bla bla" captions. A figure is supposed to spread over the
entire text width, but I have two figures which are narrow and long, and I need to
save the space in order to withstand the pages limit.
\lipsum
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{example-image-a} % first figure itself
\caption{first figure}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{example-image-b} % second figure itself
\caption{second figure}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}
I was surprised to discover two \captions in the same figure environment actually work as desired.
HT: LaTeX Matters via Google
You can include them to the same (more or less arbitrary) height then scale them together to the desired width
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}% images from mwe package
\begin{document}
\noindent X\dotfill X
\begin{center}
\resizebox{.9\textwidth}{!}{%
\includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-a}%
\quad
\includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-16x9}%
}
\end{center}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The initial
1cmheight is arbitrary, then scale the combined pair to text width.