I have two images that I want to display on a page as figures. Each eats up little less than half of the space available so there's not much room for any other stuff on that page, but I know there is enough space for both of the figures. I tried to place the figures with [ht] and [hb], both [h] and both [ht] but still I can't get those two images on the same page but instead at least few paragraphs between them.
How do I force those two figures to stay on the same page?
Try adding a !, e.g. [h!].
try [h!] first but else you can do it the ugly way.
LateX is a bit hard in placing images with such constraints as it manages placing itself. What I usually do if I want a figure right in that spot is do something like|:
text in front of image here
\newpage
\figure1
\figure2
text after images here
I know it may not be the correct way to do it but it works like a charm :).
//edit
You can do the same if you want a little text at top of the page but then just use /clearpage. Of course you can also scale them a bit smaller so it does not happen anymore. Maybe the non-seen whitespace is a bit larger than you suspect, I always try to scale down my image until they do appear on the same page, just to know for sure there is not like 1% overlap only making all of this not needed.
I had this problem while trying to mix figures and text. What worked for me was the 'H' option without the '!' option.
\begin{figure}[H]
'H' tries to forces the figure to be exactly where you put it in the code.
This requires you include
\usepackage{float}
The options are explained here
If you want to have images about same topic, you ca use subfigure package and construction:
\begin{figure}
\subfigure[first image]{\includegraphics{image}\label{first}}
\subfigure[second image]{\includegraphics{image}\label{second}}
\caption{main caption}\label{main_label}
\end{figure}
If you want to have, for example two, different images next to each other you can use:
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
\includegraphics{image}
\caption{first}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
\includegraphics{image}
\caption{second}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
For images in columns you will have [1] [2] [3] [4] in the source, but it will look like
[1] [3]
[2] [4].
If you want them both on the same page and they'll both take up basically the whole page, then the best idea is to tell LaTeX to put them both on a page of their own!
\begin{figure}[p]
It would probably be against sound typographic principles (e.g., ugly) to have two figures on a page with only a few lines of text above or below them.
By the way, the reason that [!h] works is because it's telling LaTeX to override its usual restrictions on how much space should be devoted to floats on a page with text. As implied above, there's a reason the restrictions are there. Which isn't to say they can be loosened somewhat; see the FAQ on doing that.
Try using the float package and then the [H] option for your figure.
\usepackage{float}
...
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics{fig1}
\caption{Write some caption here}\label{fig1}
\end{figure}
as already suggested by this insightful answer!
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8625/force-figure-placement-in-text
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