[Tex/LaTex] How to put large figure caption on separate page from the figure

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I have a large figure (> 50% of a page) and a large caption to describe it (also >50% of page). How do I put the caption on a separate page?

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As Thorsten already mentioned, the fltpage package might be useful here:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[CaptionAfterwards]{fltpage}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\begin{FPfigure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]{figure.pdf}
  \caption{Caption goes here.}
  \label{figurelabel}
\end{FPfigure}
\lipsum
\end{document}

(Please note that currently the fltpage package does not work well with hyperref, at least if you don't use the caption package additionally.)

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Since you're already loading the caption package, you could proceed as follows:

\begin{figure}[p] % this "float" will reside on a floats-only page
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Figure.pdf}
% note: no \caption and \label for now
\end{figure}
\clearpage % insert a page break
\captionof{figure}{caption} 
\label{label}

To create some unambiguous visual separation between the caption and the remaining material on that page, you could insert instructions such as \hrule\bigskip following \label.

That said, are you sure it's necessary to display the image file so large that the caption won't fit on the same page? E.g., you could try writing

\includegraphics[height=0.9\textheight]{Figure.pdf}

This should provide enough remaining space on the page to permit the caption being typeset on that page as well.

[Tex/LaTex] Full-page figure with preceding caption

I'd just put the caption in a [b] figure and the image in a [p] the caption figure will float until there is room for the caption at the bottom if the page, and at the following page break the pending p float will necessarily be output. (I'd never use afterpage: I know who wrote it:-)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,graphicx}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-11]


\begin{figure}[b]
  \caption[Some rather long caption]{\lipsum*[2]}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[p]
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=.999\textheight]{example-image}% La
\end{figure}
\lipsum[12-20]
\end{document}

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