[Tex/LaTex] Align text and image on the same line

graphicspositioning

According to the two-column example document below, how can you put text and image on the same line? I'm interested in how to insert text at Some text here and more text here with the image right aligned.

Example:

|     #TEXT######################### |     #TEXT######################### |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| #################                  | ################################## |
|                                    |                                    |
|                      ************* | ################################## |
|   Some text here     ************* | ################################## |
|                      ************* | ################################## |
|                      **IMAGE.JPG** | ################################## |
|   more text here     ************* |                                    |
|                      ************* | ################################## |
|                      ************* | ################################## |
|                      ************* | ################################## |
|                                    |                                    |
|     #TEXT######################### | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| ################################## | ################################## |
| #################                  | ################################## |

Best Answer

Since you mention the need to precisely position the text, may I suggest using TikZ? Here's an example that uses one node for the image, and two nodes placed using the positioning library to have a horizontal gap of 5 mm to the image, with their vertical centers positioned 5 mm and 23 mm below the top of the image:

enter image description here

The image is taken from Wikipedia

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{tikz,lipsum}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

{
\raggedleft
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (bottle) {\includegraphics{normflasche}};
\node [left=0.5cm of bottle.north west, yshift=-5mm] {Cap};
\node [left=0.5cm of bottle.north west, yshift=-23mm] {Pearls};
\end{tikzpicture}

}

\lipsum[2-6]
\end{document}

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Use two minipages next to each other:

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\usepackage[pass,showframe]{geometry}% just to show the page margins

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% remove demo option in actual document

\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth}% adapt widths of minipages to your needs
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\hfill%
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Now it looks as though they're here to stay\\
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\end{document}

Here's another screenshot with \fboxes around the minipages and with \dotfill instead of \hfill to make it more obvious how this is constructed. (You wouldn't ever use this in an actual document, obviously.)

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Simply your image is too large to fit on the first page. Note that LaTeX consider not only if there is enough space among the margins, also make penalties for a bad design (for example, if the fraction of text with respect the floats is less than 20%) and considering this, LaTeX tries to do the best (print a format with less penalties) than could be different to what you expected. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for more information a this respect. Follow also the Thorsten's advice and see also How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

Without knowing the size of the original figure is not possible to say exactly how to solve your minimal working example (MWE), but you can simply narrow the figure to some less than 1\textwidth. Or may help for a big figure add the option [h!] as this relax the LaTeX rules for this float. Or you can change the rules, writing in the preamble:

\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.05}

For example:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{mwe} % for the example image
\begin{document}
Hi...My first test image
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.8\textwidth]{example-image-10x16}
\caption{My first image}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

MWE

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