avoid that figure gets its own page

Question

I have a couple of floats in my document, which contain large Images (it consumes the half of the page). In this case, the figure get's its own page and no text goes on this page.

How can I configure this? I'd like to have text before and after the floats until the float doesn't use more then 75% of the page height.

Answer 1

I didn't have had success with the \topfraction, but there is another important setting which gave me less float-only pages. With \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.8}% I was able to specify that only pages with more than 80% of floats, will become pure float-only pages. The default is 0.6 so if a figure consumes 60% of the page it will get its own float-page.

HTH math.

Answer 2

Default for LaTeX is to allow up to 70% of the top of a page to be float (set by \topfraction as .7); up to 30% of the bottom of the page (set by \bottomfraction as .3) and at least 20% text (set by \textfraction as .2). Perhaps increase \topfraction using \renewcommand{\topfraction}{.75} as a start.

For more on TeX's float algorithm, read How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?.

Answer 3

I had the exact same problem and I fixed it by setting the [ht] options for the figure environment.

Answer 4

I had exactly the same problem, but in a two-column environment. Concretely, I wanted to have two figures in the rightmost column of the last page of an article, but the second figure went on a new page even if there was clearly enough space left in the column.

None of the proposed solutions (htbp options, float fraction, \vspace, etc.) worked for me, but the solution that did work was using the H option of the float package:

\usepackage{float}
...
\begin{figure}[H]
   ...
\end{figure}

This had the last figure move back to the previous page.

Answer 5

I had a similar issue, but the solutions with renewing the commands for the spacing around floats did not work for me. Perhaps because I used it in a double column environment, but redefining the \dbltopfraction and \floatpagefraction also did not work.

Instead I found the following make-shift solution that worked for me:

\vspace{-50mm}
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1.0]{figure.eps}
\vspace{-50mm}
\caption{}
\label{fig:label}
\end{figure*}
\vspace{50mm}

In this solution solution I reduced the vertical space with \vspace{} right before the figure environment, inside it the environment (after the include), and right after the environment I added the same vertical space again.

Hope this helps