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SuzuBell
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Page location of figure overridden in "starred" version

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I am trying to place a figure at the bottom center of the page, taking up about 80% of the text (across the entire two columns of a two-columned article).

I read (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floa ... d_Captions) that the asterisk sign in {figure*} allows the picture to span across the two columns.

However, when I tried the code below, I got an image that was centered and spanned about 80% of the text, but it was not located at the bottom of the page, despite using and [b!] (I tried both). Any ideas?:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{sidecap}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{dblfloatfix}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[bookmarks,backref=true,linkcolor=black]{hyperref}
\usepackage{wrapfig,float}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\begin{figure*}[b] % also tried with [b!]
\centering
\includegraphics[keepaspectratio=TRUE,width=0.8\linewidth]{myImage.png}
\caption{This is my caption}\label{fig:fig3}
\end{figure*}
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Last edited by Stefan Kottwitz on Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:21 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Page location of figure overridden in "starred" version

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

It works for me when I take your code and make it compilable. The figure is at the bottom.

Perhaps you make something different what is not shown here. Just always try posting a small but compilable example, which shows the problem. As your code is not complete, we speak about different things it seems.

My complete example in this topic works too.

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SuzuBell
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Re: Page location of figure overridden in "starred" version

Post by SuzuBell »

Thank you! I realize it is because I did not have any other font on the page!
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