Avoid two column balancing

Question

I've the following problem: I have some text and some figures in a two column environment. If the the text gets long and my figure floats to the next page my second column gets stretch as you can see in the image below. If I comment out the figure everything is fine. enter image description here

Here's my MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{pstricks}

\begin{document}
    \section{Section}
    \blindtext[1]
    \blindlist{enumerate}
    \section{Section}
    \blindtext[1]
    \blindlist{enumerate}
    \section{Section}
    \blindtext[1]
    \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(5cm,5cm)
        \psframe(0,0)(5cm,5cm)
    \end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Is there any way to have the second column not stretched? I played around with \nobalance command already but without success.

Thanks in advance

if you declared your picture as a "float" (\begin{figure}[t]) it would automatically move to the top of the next page/column when there isn't any room for it on the current page/columm. that is, if the document class you're using permits it. take a look at this question for some information on floats: How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? — barbara beeton, Mar 26 '15 at 17:57
You can use \raggedbottom. Or \filbreak before the picture. — Ulrike Fischer, Mar 26 '15 at 18:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '15 at 07:28

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You can use \raggedbottom or \filbreak before the picture.

answered Oct 16 '15 at 07:28

Ulrike Fischer

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