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Is there a nice way to arbitrarily force a figure into a location in the page, in an ad-hoc way. That is, after everything is written, just tell latex where to place it without changing any text.

I ma working with a CV template and don't want to change much, so I am looking for this way of achieving this. Any suggestions are welcome, thank you.

Edit I am not referring to in-text floats. Rather, I would like to "stick it on" in an arbitrary location.

splinter
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  • Perhaps the flowfram package might help you. – GuM Feb 24 '17 at 23:56
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    @CarLaTeX: I don’t think this is an exact duplicate: here the question doesn’t seem to concern only in-text “floats” (that don’t actually float), but more generally the problem of disposing figures and tables in preassigned positions on the page. – GuM Feb 25 '17 at 00:02
  • Thanks, but it's not a duplicate, the question is different – splinter Feb 25 '17 at 00:27
  • @splinter: I think you should edit your question so to make it clear that you are not speaking exclusively of in-text “floats”. – GuM Feb 25 '17 at 00:37
  • Do you want to change figure placement from, for example, bottom to top, or from "current page(top)" to "next page(top)"? – Patrick Happel Feb 25 '17 at 00:44
  • @PatrickHappel: No, I really want to have complete control of where to put the figure, without it having any effect on the rest of the document. – splinter Feb 25 '17 at 01:08
  • the xor package has a facility like this but it's incompatible with everything so not really ready for production use yet. – David Carlisle Feb 25 '17 at 01:55
  • @GustavoMezzetti Vote retracted (but there are two more...) – CarLaTeX Feb 25 '17 at 06:30
  • @Werner: I apologize for insisting on this point, but I still think that this question is not a duplicate of Force figure placement in text; indeed, both answers to that question exclusively deal with placing the float in-text, whereas the OP has made it very clear that this question is about how to control the placement of floats in arbitrary positions. For example: how to force a certain float to be moved to the top of a certain physical page, and nowhere else? That was precisely what made me think of the flowfram package. – GuM Mar 01 '17 at 23:02
  • @Gustavo Mezzetti How do you know about the flowfram package? Never heard of it before. Looks very interesting. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 02 '17 at 08:01
  • Sounds like you're after http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/169808, or http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89588 or http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49822 or http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32661 – Torbjørn T. Mar 02 '17 at 08:10
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    @Dr.ManuelKuehner: Actually, I don’t remember; I think I learnt about its existence from an answer on this site, but cannot recall which one. – GuM Mar 02 '17 at 10:34

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