Images are essential elements in most of the scientific documents. L a T e X provides several options to handle images and make them look exactly what you need. In this article is explained how to include images in the most common formats, how to shrink, enlarge and rotate them, and how to reference them within your document. Latex can not manage images by itself, so we need to use the graphicx package. Here universe is the name of the file containing the image without the extension, then universe.
You can import external graphics using package graphicx. LaTeX itself treats the image like normal text, i. The package documentation list the options width and height , as well as others. Using pdflatex several graphics formats are supported: pdf , png and jpg. Modern installations of LaTeX can use eps files as well, but indirectly. You can align the images in a matrix. You just have to think of a proper width for the images.
Include a graphics file. If your filename includes spaces then put it in double quotes. Or, if you use the graphicx package then you can use the options type and ext ; see below. This and other filename issues are also handled with the package grffile. This example puts a graphic in a figure environment so LaTeX can move it to the next page if fitting it on the current page is awkward see figure.