[Tex/LaTex] Float moved to next page even though theres enough space

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Two floats are giving me trouble. Together, they would fit comfortably on a page with enough space for some text and yet, if theres so few as one line of text on the page, the second Float will be moved to the next page:

Here's the same page with no text:

As you can see, there a huge amount of white space between the floats, more that enough to acommodate the text and yet, it won't fit.

Here's an example from the next page, where the text fits snugly around the float. It seems to me that two floats can't be right next to each other? I'm not quite sure what of the Latex source is needed if any for someone to figure this out, I will provide it as needed. The figures are using [htb].

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As per @DavidCarlisle, using [!htb] fixed the issue for me.

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[Tex/LaTex] Fit float to page

If you use both width and height then you also almost always want to use keepaspectratio otherwise the image will be distorted to match the specified dimensions. For the rest you can do something like:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}  
\usepackage{graphicx}  
\begin{document}  
\begin{figure}  
\centering  

\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\dimexpr\textheight-4\baselineskip-\abovecaptionskip-\belowcaptionskip\relax,
keepaspectratio]{ug}  
\caption{Some random caption. This should be long enough to create at least one linebreak, as the overall size of the float naturally depends on the size of the caption}  
\end{figure}  
\end{document}

Or you could measure the caption. I would get a warning that the float is too large by 0.04385pt which looks suspiciously like the depth, but rather than worry about that I just subtracted an extra 2pt for luck. keepaspectratio is commented out so that my test image stretches in this direction.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}  
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\newsavebox\cpsave 
\begin{document}  
\begin{figure}  
\centering  
\savebox\cpsave{\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}\vspace*{\abovecaptionskip}%
\caption{Some random caption. This sholud be long enough to create at least one linebreak, as the overall size of the float naturally depends on the size of the caption}\end{minipage}}

\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\dimexpr\textheight-\ht\cpsave-\dp\cpsave-\lineskip-2pt\relax,
%keepaspectratio
]{ug}  

\noindent\usebox\cpsave
\end{figure}  
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Page break in float pages

You could use \clearpage after your first group of tables (it should not make a blank page) or just make the last of the first group bigger so the second group has to start on a new page for example

\begin{table}[p]
\begin{tabular}...
\caption{...}
\vspace{.4\textheight}
\end{table}

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