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I know this has been asked before. There are many questions where the solution is to use the dblfloatfix package. However, the MWE below creates a document where the figure is on the bottom of page 2. All the solutions I find are resolved by including the package and using [!b], perhaps something has been updated since those solutions were made.

See for example this solution: Placing a figure in the bottom of a page spanning the two columns of an IEEE document Using the same method no longer works, the figure appears at the bottom of the second page.

Here is my MWE. I am on Arch Linux with the latest version of everything (I updated before creating the question just in case).

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\usepackage{dblfloatfix} \usepackage[demo]{graphicx} \usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!b] \includegraphics[width = \textwidth]{MyFigure} \caption{Hoping for this to appear at the bottom of the first page} \end{figure}

\lipsum \lipsum

\end{document}

Will
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    Right after I finish whining about it, I solve my problem. Using the package nidanfloat accomplishes the task. I wouldn't mind hearing some insight into how the nidanfloat and dblfloatfix packages operate differently though. – Will Feb 16 '22 at 02:48

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