How to place figure at the top or bottom of a page in twocolumn environment?

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I'm using two column environment with dblfloatfix package. But my figures are moving to the next page. How to exactly fix it at the top or bottom of the page. Beside I'm using {figure*} environment. I have read that twocolumn environment can not fix this problem. Is it so?What should I do. I need to wrire down paper in two column environment.

`\documentclass[twocolumn, 11pt]{article}`
\usepackage{dblfloatfix}
\usepackage{caption, subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\rhead{\thepage}
%\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{figure*}[!tbp]
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{1000.PNG}
%\hspace{0.0005\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{10.PNG}
%\\[.5\baselineskip]
\smallskip
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{500.PNG}
%\hspace{0.0005\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{0.PNG}
\caption{Figures}
\end{figure*}`

That is the normal behaviour if you insert the figure* environment at a position in the code where the page has already started: by default it goes to the top of the following page. You may try loading the stfloats package: it allows for the optional [t] or [b] ìn two column mode. Or you insert your environment previously in the code. — Bernard, Jun 12 '19 at 09:30
I'm getting this warning.Package dblfloatfix Error: Don't use the stfloats package!You're in big trouble now... \begin{document}. — jerry, Jun 12 '19 at 09:35
I have already inseted dblfloatfix, float and stfloat package — jerry, Jun 12 '19 at 09:36
You can't include both dblfloatfix and stfloat. With the latter, it works fine. — Bernard, Jun 12 '19 at 10:25
The suggestions in this answer are probably overkill, but some exceptions are explained: How to put a full-width table at the top or bottom of the same two-column page as the reference text? — barbara beeton, Jun 13 '19 at 03:20

Ñako · Answer 1 · 2019-06-12T15:15:28.153

What about using the multicols package instead of the twocolumn option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-1]
\end{multicols}
\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \subfloat[Caption of a]{\label{fig:a}\includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{example-image-a}}\qquad
    \subfloat[Caption of b]{\label{fig:b}\includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{example-image-b}}\\
    \subfloat[Caption of c]{\label{fig:c}\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-c}}\qquad%
    \subfloat[Caption of a]{\label{fig:d}\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a}}%
    \caption{Caption of figure}
    \label{fig:myfig}
\end{figure}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[3-4]
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

Or using the same example with the ltxgrid package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin]{babel}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ltxgrid}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\columnsep1.5em
\begin{document}
    \onecolumngrid
        \begin{figure*}[tb]
        \centering
        \subfloat[Caption of a]{\label{fig:a}\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}\qquad
        \subfloat[Caption of b]{\label{fig:b}\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}\\
        \subfloat[Caption of c]{\label{fig:c}\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-c}}\qquad%
        \subfloat[Caption of a]{\label{fig:d}\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-a}}%
        \caption[Caption]{Caption of figure}
        \label{fig:myfig}
    \end{figure*}
    \twocolumngrid
    \lipsum[1-2]
    \lipsum*[3]
\end{document}

But In muticolomns environment I have to specifically mention the beginning and end of multi column. I only want to specify whether figure should be at the top or the bottom of the page. — jerry, Jun 12 '19 at 12:11

How to place figure at the top or bottom of a page in twocolumn environment?

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