General ⇒ Figures keep shoving down to next page

[Dooley]

Hi all I'm having a problem display images in latex, it's been a problem for me for quite a while so I hope someone can help. Say I write something like this in latex.

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Some text.
\begin{figure}[!h]
  \centering
    %\underline{Edit-Survey Screen}\\
    \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{images/myimage.png}
    \caption{A caption}
  \label{editing}
\end{figure}\\
Some more text
\pagebreak

If the image is too big to fit on the current page it pushes itself to the next page, below all of my text so it turns out like so.

Page 1:
Some text
Some more text.
Page 2:
displays myimage.png

Can someone tell me how to fix this? thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dooley,

welcome to the board!

What do you intend exactly? If you want to prevent the floating of the image completely, you can remove the figure environment. You still may give a caption to the picture by using \captionof of the caption (or capt-of) package.

You can force the output of the current floating objects by inserting \clearpage or \cleardoublepage.

Another approach is using \FloatBarrier of the placeins package before the following text.

Stefan

[localghost]

[...] If the image is too big to fit on the current page it pushes itself to the next page, below all of my text so it turns out like so. [...]

This is a quite normal behaviour. Where else should the float be placed when there is not enough space left on the current page? Use at least [!ht] as parameters for placing the float. If that doesn't help, insert a \clearpage (or \cleardoublepage) command right after the float environment. Using the \FloatBarrier command will only mess up the layout.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Dooley]

Thank you both for your replies, I used ht! and it seems to work perfectly. I could have sworn I had tried that before.

Cheers again.

[tripwire45]

Actually, I've been having the same issue with tables (I haven't added the figures yet to my project...that's next). I need them to be placed under subsection heads and figures. To solve an issue of placing a logo in a "non-float" position on the title page, I used this:

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\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{./logo}\\[1cm]

Worked quite well. After I try placing the graphics in my project, I'll probably revisit this thread to either tap into the solution, or ask more questions.