[Tex/LaTex] More than two figures on one page with text in between (problem with float)

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I need to put more than two pictures/figures with text in between on one page. Now I'm having the problem, that more or less always one picture is floating on the next page, even though there would be "optically" place on the same page. I tried it with htb and H, both resulting in either the text or at least one of the images floating to the next page.

Instead of \fbox I use \includegraphics.

        \documentclass[a4paper, openany, oneside, titlepage, toc=bib, toc=listof]{scrbook} 
        \usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.2cm, footskip=.8cm]{geometry}
        \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
        \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
        \usepackage[final]{graphicx}


        \begin{document}

        \begin{figure}[htb]%
        \centering
        \caption{Test}
        \fbox{\parbox[c][150pt]{0.4\linewidth}{Test}}
        \label{fig:Test1}
        \end{figure}

        Short text. Blahblah. Short text. Blahblah. Short text. Blahblah. 

        \begin{figure}[htb]%
        \centering
        \caption{Test}
        \fbox{\parbox[c][100pt]{0.4\linewidth}{Test}}
        \label{fig:Test2}
        \end{figure}

Third short text. Blahblah. Short text. Blahblah. Short text. Blahblah.

        \begin{figure}[htb]%
        \centering
        \caption{Test}
        \fbox{\parbox[c][200pt]{0.4\linewidth}{Test}}
        \label{fig:Test3}
        \end{figure}

    \end{document}

Many thanks.

Best Answer

The class you are using has a constraint that a text page must have at least 20% text not floats with the idea being that if you have that many floats it is better to have a float page with just floats.

That idea is broken as you have used [htb] which excludes p so prevents LaTeX making a float page. (It is almost always a bad idea not to include p).

However in this case I think you just want to allow as little as 10% text so add

\renewcommand\textfraction{.1}

To your preamble and all three will appear on the same page.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Two pictures and text on one page

Try it as:

{
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{geschw.png}
\captionof{figure}{Geschwindigkeitsverläufe von Globoidkurve und Greifer bei 0,7s Wechselzeit}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{beschl.png}
\captionof{figure}{Beschläunigungsverläufe von Globoidkurve und Greifer bei 0,7s Wechselzeit}
\label{fig:geschw}
}

The first thing you need to ask yourself when dealing with pictures is, if you want them to float or not. In your case you do not. This will give you more control but requires a greater amount of intervention in your part to set the correct spacing around them. Overflowing into the bottom margins might also force you to include manual page breaks.

Please also note the use of \captionof from the caption package to include a caption, textdoc caption for more details and a plethora of useful settings. Also note that the images might look better with a combined caption rather than two, please experiment to see what works best in your case.

enter image description here

Best to always include a full MWE with a question as shown below for the solution:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\section{First}
\lipsum[1-2]
{
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{geschw.png}
\captionof{figure}{Geschwindigkeitsverläufe von Globoidkurve und Greifer bei 0,7s Wechselzeit}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{beschl.png}
\captionof{figure}{Beschläunigungsverläufe von Globoidkurve und Greifer bei 0,7s Wechselzeit}
\label{fig:geschw}
}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Two figures side by side with text wrapping

You have to carefully adjust the dimensions of your image and the number of lines the wrap figure will extend ( for example [10] in \begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}).

An example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig,lipsum}
%------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like.
%------------------------------------------
\begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}
\rule{5.5cm}{7.1cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure}\label{wrap-fig:1}
\end{wrapfigure}
%------------------------------------------
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. 
%
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{minipage}{6cm}
\centering
\rule{\textwidth}{3cm}
\caption{my figure}\label{fig:2}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure}%

\lipsum[2-3]

Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}