Putting two-column wide figure in Revtex4-1

Question

I have a problem with APS's revtex4-1. I want to place an twocolumn-wide figure at the bottom of the page. I know

\begin{figure*}[position]
picture
\end{figure*}

in {article} document class [position] can be htb! , and I have no problem in {article} in placing pictures on here, top, and bottom.

But!!

in {revtex4-1} document class [position] is not working! only for t. If I use b, the picture appears on the next page, and it takes up all paper. I want it to be bottom.

I tried \usepackage{dblfloatfix} but it does not work in revtex4-1 and makes error with equation, and so on..(I see revtex4-1 is incompatible with dblfloatfix.)

The following URL is for article class, I have no problem to follow its instruction.

Displaying a wide figure in a two-column document

Please, Help!

This is my sample code, I manage to put long table at the position where I wanted, but long figure is not!

Thanks,

\documentclass[
showkeys,reprint,
%superscriptaddress,
%groupedaddress,
%unsortedaddress,
%runinaddress,
%frontmatterverbose,
%preprint,
%showpacs,preprintnumbers,
%nofootinbib,
%nobibnotes,
%bibnotes,
 amsmath,amssymb,
 aps,
%pra,
%prb,
%rmp,
%prstab,
%prstper,
floatfix,
]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% Include figure files
\usepackage{dcolumn}% Align table columns on decimal point
\usepackage{bm}% bold math


%]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{multirow}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}      
\fancyhead{\nouppercase\leftmark}
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[C]{}





\begin{document}

\preprint{APS/123-QED}

\title{
%\begin{minipage}{14cm}
Microscopic Images and Micro Vickers Hardness Test of
Fullly Pearlitic High-Carbon Steel Specimens
%\end{minipage}
}
\author{ABCD}
\email{ABCD}
\collaboration{ABCD}
\date{\today}

\begin{abstract}
\begin{center}
{\bfseries Abstract}
\end{center}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\keywords{\lipsum[1]}

\maketitle
%\tableofcontents
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-4]

\begin{table*}[t]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
long&long&long&long&long&long&long&long&long&long&long
\end{tabular}
\end{table*}

\begin{figure*}[b]
                \includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{tiger}
                %\linewidth or \textwidth
                \caption{A gull}
                \label{fig:gull}
\end{figure*}

\section{Experiment}
\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}
%
% ****** End of file apssamp.tex ******

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem editing a document under REVTeX.

Thanks for pointing out that only position [t] is recognized under the {figure*} environment.

A working solution is offered by using the \onecolumngrid and \twocolumngrid commands

\documentclass[twocolumn,...]{revtex4-1}
\begin{document}
...
\onecolumngrid

\begin{figure}[h] 
\includegraphics{example.eps}
\end{figure}    
\twocolumngrid
...

I observed that the double newline after \onecolumngrid is essential to avoid the figure merging with the text. However, in my case this statement doesn't seem to hold for \twocolumngrid.

Pieter

Answer 2

I think one hack that works is putting the figure as float inside a minipage widetext environment. For example,

\begin{widetext}
    \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
        \begin{figure}[H]
            \centering
            \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{sample.png}
            \label{fig:sample}
        \end{figure}    
    \end{minipage}
\end{widetext}

Answer 3

This was a dirty trick that worked for me. I found it on the LaTeX forum. I only had to cut my text at a suitable spot (between the [CUT HERE] to reduce empty lines so that it did not look to obvious that I cut the text in half myself).

This is a sentence. This is a sentence. This is [CUT HERE]\
\onecolumngrid\
\begin{center}\
\begin{figure}[h]\
\includegraphics[scale=1.0]{myfig.pdf}\
\caption{mycaption}\
\end{figure}\
\end{center}\
\twocolumngrid\
[CUT HERE] a sentence, This is a sentence....\

I hope this can be useful for some people.