[Tex/LaTex] Too much space around wrap figure

Question

I am using the wrapfig package to have my text around the figure but there is too much space around it as you can see below.

Here is the code that I am using, I looked at the wikibook on LaTeX for this issue and it suggested that I use \vspace{-xpt} to decrease the amount but it's not working very well. Here is the code for wrapfig.

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
\vspace{-20pt}
\centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Program_Layout.png}
\vspace{-10pt}
\caption{Basic layout}
\end{wrapfigure}

How can I fix the code such so the text can get as close as possible?

Answer 1

Instead of using the scale option for \includegraphics, you could use width and select the same width that was declared for the wrapfigure environment:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{Program_Layout.png}
\vspace{-10pt}
\caption{Basic layout}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Using the first optional argument, then you can even suggest the appropriate number of lines:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{wrapfigure}[11]{r}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{Program_Layout.png}
\vspace{-10pt}
\caption{Basic layout}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.