Insert Latex PDF Figures: Easy Guide to Captions

[ChrisVer]

Hi, I have some figures in a pdf form, and I'd like to pass them into latex as figures ->meaning I want to be able to use a caption.
I used the:
\usepackage{pdfpages}

but this inserts the pdf page as it is, and I can't "edit" it (by adding a caption).

Is there any possible way to do it?

 

[kontejnjer]

You mean something like:

\usepackage{graphicx}
...
\ begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{file.pdf}
\caption{This is a caption}
\end{figure}

?

 

[ChrisVer]

would that work?

 

[kontejnjer]

As long as the pdf is in the same folder as your .tex file, then yes. If it isn't, you can use:

\graphicspath{ {path1}{path2}... }

in the preamble. This has some issues if the folder name has spaces though, so I prefer just putting the pdfs in the same folder as the .tex file and not bother with it. If you absolutely want that though, there's also the "grffile" package, but it can be slow (on my computer the compilation takes about 20x longer than without the package). Also, I forgot to mention, remove the space between the backslash and "figure", together it gave me some weird formatting on the site so I separated them.