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peter.aikins@acslink.aone.net.au (Peter J. Aikins) writes:

>	I've got to hand in a Thesis by this Friday and I'm having
>problems getting the images in my thesis to centre. I'm using the
>psfig package and I've quoted both the preamble and the relevent part.
>Anyone who could help me please do.

>Thanks

>Peter


>-----------------------------
>\documentstyle[amssymb,a4wide,psfig,12pt,oneside]{amsbook}

>% Command section.....
>%\include[dvips]{graphics}
>\numberwithin{equation}{section}
>\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
>%\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{ps,eps}
>%\graphicspath{{./}}

>\raggedbottom
>\begin{document}
>\tableofcontents
>\chapter{Introduction} 

><snip>

>\begin{figure}[hbt] 
>   \psfig{file=radar1.eps,height=5cm}
>   \caption{Frontal view of the radar module} \label{fig:radar1}
>   \centering
>\end{figure}
>--------------------------


Hi Peter,

Sometimes centering of PostScript figures can be a problem if the
"%%BoundingBox: llx lly urx ury" (I think that's right) sizes are wrong;
so you might check those first ... one way is to add the PostScript
code to draw a line around the bounding box, for example:

llx lly moveto  % where "llx" and "lly" are the X, and Y coordinates of the
llx ury lineto  % lower left corner, as specified in the %%BoundingBox, and
urx ury lineto  % where "urx" and "ury" are the X, and Y coordinates of the
urx lly lineto  % upper right corner, as specified in the %%BoundingBox.
llx lly lineto
show

Another package you might try instead of "psfig", is "epsf".
To include an Encapsulated PostScript File, I use the following:


\documentstyle[12pt,epsf]{article} %%% Have not tried this with "amsbook"
%
\begin{document}

% etc., etc., etc.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \leavevmode        %%  leave "v" mode
  \epsfbox{fig1.ps}
  \caption{Whatever ...\label{figone}}
\end{figure}

% etc., etc., etc.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \leavevmode        %%  leave "v" mode
  \epsfbox{fig2.ps}
  \caption{And so on ...\label{figtwo}}
\end{figure}

% etc., etc., etc.

\end{document}


I hope that is of some help.

Best regards,

Lawson Hanson