[Tex/LaTex] Too wide subfigures

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I try to place to figures side by side, as can be seen below the resulting figures are to wide, they expand over the right document border. Do I have to take the gap into account when sizing the images, and if so how do I do it, so that I don"t have to adjust if I globally change the gap size?

overset image

MWE: (Fancyhdr is used to show tha actual width of the main text area)

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{caption}                            %we base the subfigures on this
\usepackage[list=on]{subcaption}                %we base the subfigures on this
\usepackage{floatrow}                           %subfigures
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{adjustbox}                          %limit graphics sizes

%floatrow setup
\floatsetup{style=ruled,footposition=caption,capposition=bottom, heightadjust=object}   %make graphics look like booktables
\floatsetup[table]{style=plain,footposition=bottom}
\floatsetup[subfigure]{style= plain, heightadjust=object, valign=t}
\DeclareCaptionSubType[alph]{figure}
\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=brace,justification=centerlast}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1.0pt}

\makeatletter
%\renewcommand\fps@figure{!htb}
\setlength\@fptop{0pt} 
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \ffigbox[\FBwidth]{
    \begin{subfloatrow}
        \ffigbox[.5\Xhsize]{\caption{cap1}}{\includegraphics[width=.5\Xhsize]{}}
        \ffigbox[\Xhsize]{\caption{cap2}}{\includegraphics[width=\Xhsize, height=5cm]{}}
    \end{subfloatrow}}
    {\caption{Tile network}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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You have fixed the with of \includegraphics exactly as big as \ffigbox. Probably the problem is only that the content can not be as big as the container.

Narrowing a pinch the images, for example to .45\Xhsize and .95\Xhsize, seem to solve the problem and it is even more elegant (IMHO, of course). With .499\Xhsize and .999 \Xhsize the horizontal difference between rules and image margins is almost imperceptible even zooming at 400%.

Some explanations

I decided not to use overpic at all. The grid and placement of labels can be done entirely through TikZ; in the following example I used Caramdir's and Jake's answers to Drawing on an image with TikZ and defined a \mygrid command to place a labelled grid on each image; the mandatory argument of \mygrid is the name of the node used to hold the image:

\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning}
\usepackage{floatrow}

\newcommand\mygrid[1]{%
  \begin{scope}[x={(#1.south east)},y={(#1.north west)}]
  \draw[help lines,xstep=.1,ystep=.1] (0,0) grid (1,1);
  \foreach \x in {0,1,...,10} { \node [anchor=north,font=\tiny] at (\x/10,0) {\x}; }
  \foreach \y in {0,1,...,10} { \node [anchor=east,font=\tiny] at (0,\y/10) {\y}; }
  \end{scope}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{mdframed}[
  align=center,
  linecolor=black,
  fontcolor=black,
  backgroundcolor=white,
  %userdefinedwidth=0.9\textwidth,
  roundcorner=5pt,
  skipabove=10pt,
  skipbelow=10pt,
  leftmargin=0pt,
  innertopmargin=100pt,
  innerbottommargin=0pt, 
  innerlinewidth=0pt,
  middlelinewidth=0pt,
  outerlinewidth=1pt
]
\floatsetup[subfigure]{captionskip=10pt}
\ffigbox{%
\begin{subfloatrow}[3]
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image1) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image1}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap1}\label{sfig:a}}%
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
    \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image2)  
      {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image2}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap2}\label{sfig:b}}
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image3) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm,height=2cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image3}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap3}\label{sfig:c}}
\end{subfloatrow}  
}{\caption{A Minimal Working Example with three subfigures:~\ref{sfig:a}, \ref{sfig:b} and~\ref{sfig:c}}}
\end{mdframed}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

This produces:

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Now, with the help of the grids, we can draw some arrows and place the labels:

\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning}
\usepackage{floatrow}

\newcommand\mygrid[1]{%
  \begin{scope}[x={(#1.south east)},y={(#1.north west)}]
  \draw[help lines,xstep=.1,ystep=.1] (0,0) grid (1,1);
  \foreach \x in {0,1,...,10} { \node [anchor=north,font=\tiny] at (\x/10,0) {\x}; }
  \foreach \y in {0,1,...,10} { \node [anchor=east,font=\tiny] at (0,\y/10) {\y}; }
  \end{scope}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{mdframed}[
  align=center,
  linecolor=black,
  fontcolor=black,
  backgroundcolor=white,
  %userdefinedwidth=0.9\textwidth,
  roundcorner=5pt,
  skipabove=10pt,
  skipbelow=10pt,
  leftmargin=0pt,
  innertopmargin=100pt,
  innerbottommargin=0pt, 
  innerlinewidth=0pt,
  middlelinewidth=0pt,
  outerlinewidth=1pt
]
\floatsetup[subfigure]{captionskip=10pt}
\ffigbox{%
\begin{subfloatrow}[3]
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image1) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image1}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap1}\label{sfig:a}}%
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
    \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image2)  
      {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image2}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap2}\label{sfig:b}}
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image3) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm,height=2cm]{ctanlion}};
  \mygrid{image3}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap3}\label{sfig:c}}
\end{subfloatrow}  
}{\caption{A Minimal Working Example with three subfigures:~\ref{sfig:a}, \ref{sfig:b} and~\ref{sfig:c}}}
\end{mdframed}
\end{figure}

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
% Some arrows
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,cyan!80!black,dashed] 
  ([yshift=-40pt,xshift=20pt]image2.north) |- +(0,80pt) -|
  ([yshift=-40pt,xshift=20pt]image3.north);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,orange!80!black] 
  ([yshift=-10pt,xshift=20pt]image2.west) |- 
  ([yshift=-10pt,xshift=20pt]image3.west);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,red!80!black] 
  ([xshift=20pt]image1.west) |- +(0,70pt) -| 
  ([yshift=20pt,xshift=30pt]image3.west);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,green!80!black,dashed] 
  ([yshift=20pt,xshift=-43pt]image1.east) |- +(0,-73pt) -|
  ([yshift=-15pt,xshift=-15pt]image3.east);
% Some labels
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane1: geneA};
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily,yshift=-15pt] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane2: geneB};
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily,yshift=-30pt] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane3: geneC};\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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After commenting out the three \mygrid{...} lines, one gets:

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If the general caption must appear outside the frame, one can leave empty the corresponding argument (in this case, the second argument of the outer \ffigbox), and then use \RawCaption outside the mdframed environment. To keep synchronicity, however, the figure counter will have to be manually stepped at the beginning (this is not necessary if the caption goes before the object):

\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning}
\usepackage{floatrow}

\newcommand\mygrid[1]{%
  \begin{scope}[x={(#1.south east)},y={(#1.north west)}]
  \draw[help lines,xstep=.1,ystep=.1] (0,0) grid (1,1);
  \foreach \x in {0,1,...,10} { \node [inner ysep=0pt,anchor=north,font=\tiny] at (\x/10,0) {\x}; }
  \foreach \y in {0,1,...,10} { \node [inner ysep=0pt,anchor=east,font=\tiny] at (0,\y/10) {\y}; }
  \end{scope}%
}

\begin{document}
\floatsetup[figure]{style=plain,capposition=bottom}
\begin{figure}
\begin{mdframed}[
  align=center,
  linecolor=black,
  fontcolor=black,
  backgroundcolor=white,
  %userdefinedwidth=0.9\textwidth,
  roundcorner=5pt,
  skipabove=10pt,
  skipbelow=10pt,
  leftmargin=0pt,
  innertopmargin=100pt,
  innerbottommargin=0pt, 
  innerlinewidth=0pt,
  middlelinewidth=0pt,
  outerlinewidth=1pt
]
\floatsetup[subfigure]{captionskip=10pt}
\ffigbox{%
\stepcounter{figure}
\begin{subfloatrow}[3]
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image1) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  %\mygrid{image1}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap1}\label{sfig:a}}%
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
    \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image2)  
      {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm]{ctanlion}};
  %\mygrid{image2}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap2}\label{sfig:b}}
  \ffigbox{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image3) 
    {\includegraphics[width=3.8cm,height=2cm]{ctanlion}};
  %\mygrid{image3}
  \end{tikzpicture}
  }%
  {\subcaption{subcap3}\label{sfig:c}}
\end{subfloatrow}  
}{}% empty second argument; the caption goes outside the frame
\end{mdframed}
\RawCaption{\caption{A Minimal Working Example with three subfigures:~\ref{sfig:a}, \ref{sfig:b} and~\ref{sfig:c}}\label{test}}
\end{figure}

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
% Some arrows
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,cyan!80!black,dashed] 
  ([yshift=-40pt,xshift=20pt]image2.north) |- +(0,80pt) -|
  ([yshift=-40pt,xshift=20pt]image3.north);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,orange!80!black] 
  ([yshift=-10pt,xshift=20pt]image2.west) |- 
  ([yshift=-10pt,xshift=20pt]image3.west);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,red!80!black] 
  ([xshift=20pt]image1.west) |- +(0,70pt) -| 
  ([yshift=20pt,xshift=30pt]image3.west);
\draw[->,line width=1.5pt,green!80!black,dashed] 
  ([yshift=20pt,xshift=-43pt]image1.east) |- +(0,-73pt) -|
  ([yshift=-15pt,xshift=-15pt]image3.east);
% Some labels
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane1: geneA};
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily,yshift=-15pt] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane2: geneB};
\node[anchor=north west,rotate=90,font=\ttfamily,yshift=-30pt] 
  at (image1.north west) {Lane3: geneC};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

enter image description here

CTAN lion drawing by Duane Bibby.

[Tex/LaTex] Labeling and referencing subfigures

I don't know floatrow package at all. For subfigures I use subfig package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \subfloat[Foo]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{foo}\label{fig:foo}}\hfil
  \subfloat[Bar]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{bar}\label{fig:bar}}
  \caption{Figures of Foo and Bar}\label{fig}
\end{figure}
Here in fig. \ref{fig} we can see Foo in fig. \ref{fig:foo} and Bar in fig. \ref{fig:bar}.
\end{document}

Here in fig. 1 we can see Foo in fig. 1a and Bar in fig. 1b.

If you want to have "Foo in fig. 1 and Bar in fig. 2" you can use minipage cheat:

\begin{figure}
 \begin{minipage}{.49\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{foo}
  \caption{Foo}\label{fig:foo}
 \end{minipage}\hfil
 \begin{minipage}{.49\textwidth}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{bar}
  \caption{Bar}\label{fig:bar}
 \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Edit: Using floatrow you can achieve same result with this code:

 \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
 \usepackage{floatrow}
 \usepackage{subfig}
 \usepackage{graphicx}

 \begin{document}

 \begin{figure}[H]
 \ffigbox[\FBwidth]
 {\begin{subfloatrow}
   \sidesubfloat[Foo]{\includegraphics{foo}\label{fig:foo}}%
   \sidesubfloat[Bar]{\includegraphics{bar}\label{fig:bar}}%
   \end{subfloatrow}}
 {\caption{CCC}\label{fig}}
 \end{figure}

 See \ref{fig:foo}.

 \end{document}

For more options see chapter 7.1 in floatrow manual.

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