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For the question How to place a "banner image" at the top of a paper the solution was to use a center environment to create a non-floating figure:

\documentclass{acmtog}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[caption=false,format=hang]{subfig} 
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\captiontype[1]{\def\@captype{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\def\BannerFigSize{.25}
\begin{center}
\captiontype{figure}
\subfloat[a.]
  {
  \fbox{\rule{0pt}{1in} Some text \rule{1in}{0pt} }
  \label{fig:banner:scene}
  }
\subfloat[b.]
  {
  \fbox{\rule{0pt}{1in} Some text \rule{1in}{0pt} }
  \label{fig:banner:strokes}
  }
\caption{Our algorithms.}
\label{fig:banner}
\end{center}
\end{document}

However, unlike figure*, center* is not a valid operator to span columns. Is there a way to make this center environment span two columns?

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David Doria
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In general you can't place something over two columns in the middle of a page, just at the top or bottom. Here you can use one of the solutions given for How can I place a one-column-abstract in a two-column document?, i.e. use the optional argument of \twocolumn to add double-column material at the beginning of the two-column page:

You need to place the \maketitle in the \twocolumn[..] as well, but it uses \twocolumn itself, which will cause an error. You can avoid this by locally redefining \twocolumn so that the inner one is ignore.

\documentclass{acmtog}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[caption=false,format=hang]{subfig} 
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\captiontype[1]{\def\@captype{#1}}
\makeatother
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{My paper}
\author{Me {\upshape and} My Friend
\affil{Affiliation}}
\acmVolume{VV}
\acmNumber{N}
\acmYear{2012}
\acmMonth{April}
\acmArticleNum{XXX}
\acmdoi{10.1145/XXXXXXX.YYYYYYY}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[{%
\renewcommand\twocolumn[1][]{#1}%
\maketitle
\def\BannerFigSize{.25}
\begin{center}
\captiontype{figure}
\subfloat[a.]
  {
  \fbox{\rule{0pt}{1in} Some text \rule{1in}{0pt} }
  \label{fig:banner:scene}
  }
\subfloat[b.]
  {
  \fbox{\rule{0pt}{1in} Some text \rule{1in}{0pt} }
  \label{fig:banner:strokes}
  }
\caption{Our algorithms.}
\label{fig:banner}
\end{center}%
}]
\begin{bottomstuff}
Authors' addresses: 
\end{bottomstuff}
\lipsum% dummy text
\end{document}
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Martin Scharrer
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  • your example works. However, when I add the rest of the preamble stuff to the document (to try to add the image after the title), the image gets pushed to the second page: http://pastebin.com/LSi24uKZ

    Any idea what has changed?

     – David Doria May 01 '12 at 18:08
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    @DavidDoria: This is because \twocolumn will force a new page. Try to add all other titling code into the \twocolumn[..]. – Martin Scharrer May 01 '12 at 18:43
  • If I move \maketitle into the \twocolumn, I get the error "Float(s) lost. }]". I'm also not sure how the \begin{bottomstuff} environment works - it seems to matter where this is placed as well. – David Doria May 01 '12 at 18:50
  • @DavidDoria: See my update. The issue was that \maketitle include \twocolumn itself. The bottomstuff should be directly after the \twocolumn[..] before the actual text. – Martin Scharrer May 01 '12 at 19:04