[texhax] How print array of images/photos with captions?

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Niall Mansfield wrote:

> I want to print about 100 images with captions in
> a 2x3 (for example) grid on a page, so the pages look like:
>
> III    III
> III    III
> c      c
>
> III    III
> III    III
> c      c
>
> III    III
> III    III
> c      c
>
> where the III things are the images and the "c" are the captions.
> (In effect a photo album.)
>
> Is there any LaTeX package to do this?

I do not know of a LaTeX package to do this, but ConTeXt[1] has 
something that does this exactly.

\starttext
\startcombination[2*3]
   {\externalfigure[fig1][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 1}
   {\externalfigure[fig2][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 2}
   {\externalfigure[fig3][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 3}
   {\externalfigure[fig4][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 4}
   {\externalfigure[fig5][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 5}
   {\externalfigure[fig6][width=5cm]}
   {Caption 6}
\stopcombination
\stoptext

You can configure the distance between cells, and the alignment of 
captions.

So what you can do is use context to generate these 100 pages of 
figures, and if you need to include them in a latex document, use the 
pdfpages package.

[1] See http://contextgarden.net/

Aditya