Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Problem due too a large number of figures in thesis

[fossa]

I am writing my thesis in Latex

I am writing chapters as separate files and use \include command (i.e. \include{chapter1}) in the main thesis file.

I have a large number of figures in most of my chapters and the problem is that quite often there will be a lot of empty space left between the figures and text.

For example, I have in the result PDF file:

--------------Page 15--------------------------
- Text
- Figure
- Text
--------------Page 16------------------------
- Some empty space
- Figure
- Figure
- 1/3 page empty
--------------Page 17--------------------------
- Figure
- Figure
- 1/3 page empty
--------------Page 18 *--------------------------
- Text on all page with no obvious empty spaces
-----------------------------------------------

I am not sure how to make the text and figures mix in the right way. Although it seems that apart of leaving empty space a number of figures are all "damped" in the end of each chapter.

If it is of any help I insert figures by a standard command:

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\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale =0.40] {image plot 1.png}}\\
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale =0.40] {image plot 2.png}}
\caption[]{}
\label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

thank you

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi fossa,

welcome to the board!

You chose the check mark as topic icon - does it mean that you solved your problem?

If not, perhaps you could post an example where the figures are badly positioned? You could use the demo option for the graphicx package and the blindtext package with the command \blindtext for producing text with figures, creating the behavour of the original.

Stefan