[Tex/LaTex] \textwidth within \resizebox

graphicsmulticolumnscalingtables

I want to the final row of a table to display the notes, spanning across all columns, using \multicolumn{#}{p{\textwidth}}{}. This does not work properly in connection with resize, because textwidth keeps the same value but the measurement is scaled downwards.

Here is my code:

\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrr} \hline
aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa\\ \hline
\multicolumn{9}{p{\textwidth}}{Notes: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et.}
\end{tabular}%
}
\end{document}

Output:
enter image description here

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Better to use threeparttablex, though it is not perfect (a little too wide in the right)

\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[referable]{threeparttablex}
\begin{document}

\noindent
\rule{\textwidth}{1mm}

\noindent
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
  \begin{threeparttable}
    \begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrr} \hline aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa &
      aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa &
      aaaaaaaa\\ \hline 
    \end{tabular}%
    \begin{tablenotes}
      \note Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr,
      sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et.
    \end{tablenotes}
  \end{threeparttable}
}
\end{document}

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The adjustbox package supports a minipage=<length> key which automatically places a minipage around the content. Then line breaks will work.
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You could define your own include command, like so:

\documentclass{beamer}
\newcommand{\mycommand}[1]{\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.8\textheight,keepaspectratio]{#1}}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{figure}
    \mycommand{source}
\end{figure}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

edit by Claudio Fiandrino

To have the possibility of shrink the image with custom values, one could proceed with a small change to the \mycommand:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{mwe}% for dummy images
% mycommand:
% #1: optional -> "shrink" value (default value to 0.8)
% #2: mandatory -> image
\newcommand{\mycommand}[2][0.8]{\includegraphics[width=#1\textwidth,height=#1\textheight,keepaspectratio]{#2}}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{figure}% notice that in Beamer having floating figures is not necessary
  \mycommand[0.1]{example-image}~\mycommand[0.2]{example-image}~\mycommand[0.4]{example-image}
\end{figure}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

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