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I am using the figure environment for placing figure at the bottom of the page as follows:

\begin{figure}[b]
........
\end{figure}

But, my figure is being placed at the top of the page and "[b]" is being printed along with figure. What can be the reason for this? I am using the figure-related packages -- "graphicx" and "subcaption"..

David Carlisle
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Karamveer
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The best way to put the figure to the bottom of a page is to tell latex to put directly to the bottom by \begin{figure}**[!b]**

You can look at the result by looking at this code. The code itself is here:

%% Just a MWE with a figure of a kitten and blindtext package

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry} %% For better viewing the result of figure placement
\usepackage{blindtext} %% add blind text around an image
\usepackage{droid} %% Doesn't matter, I just like that font
\usepackage{graphicx} %% turning on images support. I prefer EPS.
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\title{Figures placement}
\author{texnicker.bookman2016 }
\date{November 2015}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

%% The case with putting an image on the bottom. For that you need to "ask" LaTeX to put directly at the bottom of the page
\section{Example}

%% Let's insert a picture around blind text
\begin{figure}[!b]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.15]{cat}
\caption{A cat!}
\end{figure}
\blindtext[7]

\end{document}
Were Gerenic
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    BTW: **...** markup does not work inside \...`` tags – daleif Nov 30 '15 at 09:51
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    This is unlikely to be the answer, if the OP's \begin{figure}[b] is printing [b] then this will print [!b]. Also you shouldn't routinely use ! It doesn't make sense to set constraints and then routinely ignore them, better to set appropriator constraints. – David Carlisle Nov 30 '15 at 10:39
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    The are limits to how large a figure can be on the bottom (0.3\textheight IIRC). See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat?s=1|1.9364 – John Kormylo Nov 30 '15 at 18:59