Subfigures within minipage

Question

I have 5 figures, which I want to display in one page, after dividing it in three minipages. Idellay I have 2 subfigures in the first minipage, 2 in the second one, and only one in the third minipage center-aligned.

I tried the following:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[paper=letterpaper,left=1.0in,right=1.0in,top=0.25in,bottom=1.0in,]{geometry}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{03.\textheight}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[a]{\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth] {./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
   \label{fig:subfig1}
 }%
\end{subfigure}
 \begin{subfigure}[b]{\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_dft_0.png}
   \label{fig:subfig2}
 }%
\end{subfigure}
\label{fig:myfigure}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}{03.\textheight}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[c]{\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth] {./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
   \label{fig:subfig1}
 }%
\end{subfigure}
 \begin{subfigure}[d]{\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_dft_0.png}
   \label{fig:subfig2}
 }%
\end{subfigure}
\label{fig:myfigure}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}{03.\textheight}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[f]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth] {./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
   \label{fig:subfig1}
 }%
\end{subfigure}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}

\end{figure}

Unfortunately, the result is totally hopeless. Any suggestion on how to fix it? Thanks in advance

Watch out, not \begin{minipage}{03.\textheight}, it is \begin{minipage}{0.3\textheight} — , Apr 15 '19 at 13:25
@ferahfeza. You are right. thanks. However, Figures come one after the other. I cannot obtain two figures in the first minipage, two in the second and one in the third. Any suggestion on this issue? — Dario, Apr 15 '19 at 13:41
Do you want to obtain the two figures side by side in minipage? — , Apr 15 '19 at 13:59
delete empty lines between minipages. however, do you really need minipages? you can obtain desired result also without using them. — Zarko, Apr 15 '19 at 14:00
@Dario, look at this nice answer : https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/261301/31034 — , Apr 15 '19 at 14:01
@Zarko I deleted the space in the between and it worked. However, the last figure is not center-aligned, but it goes below the column on the left. How can I obtain this? — Dario, Apr 15 '19 at 14:08
@ferahfeza Thanks for the suggestion. I am almost there. The last point is that the last figure is not centered, but it goes below the first column. — Dario, Apr 15 '19 at 14:09
Solved! In the last minipage I substitute \begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth} with \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} — Dario, Apr 15 '19 at 14:11
@Dario, see my answer. test it since temporary is not possible to upload images. — Zarko, Apr 15 '19 at 14:20

Zarko · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-15T17:21:53.683

the package subfigure is obsolete. it is replaced with subfig. however, even better is to use the subcaption package.

i would not use minipage for grouping your sub figures, this can be done without them:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[paper=letterpaper,
            left=1.0in,right=1.0in,
            top=0.25in,bottom=1.0in,]{geometry}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}
\centering
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
\caption{}
\label{fig:subfig1}
    \end{subfigure}\hfil
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_dft_0.png}
\caption{}
\label{fig:subfig2}
    \end{subfigure}

\smallskip
     \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
\caption{}
\label{fig:subfig3}
    \end{subfigure}\hfil
     \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_dft_0.png}
\caption{}
\label{fig:subfig4}
    \end{subfigure}

\smallskip
     \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./pngs/profile_L_3lambda_max_1wl_0.png}
\caption{}
\label{fig:subfig5}
    \end{subfigure}

\caption{My caption}
\label{fig:my-figures}
    \end{figure}
See Fig.~\ref{fig:my-figures}, particularly sub figure \ref{fig:subfig5} \dots
\end{document}

Subfigures within minipage

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