Forcing a figure to appear on the next page

Question

I have a figure which takes up an entire page of space. When I use \includegraphics to put it in my document, instead of appearing on the next page, it appears at the end of the section.

However, I want the full-page figure to appear on the following page. In other words, in the below MWE, I want:

(page 1) all of TEXT A, followed by the amount of TEXT B necessary to fill the rest of the page

(page 2) the full-page figure

(page 3) the remainder of TEXT B

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % for \includegraphics
\usepackage{lipsum}   % for filler text
\begin{document}
\section{First Section}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT A
\includegraphics{full_page_image}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT B
\section{Second Section}
\end{document}

See Full-page figure without extraneous whitespace in text? – Martin Scharrer Apr 19 '12 at 06:09 — Martin Scharrer, Apr 19 '12 at 06:09

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '12 at 06:16

You can use the \afterpage{<content>} macro from the afterpage package to place things directly after the current page. I'm not sure if you only want the image or a real figure with maybe a caption.

For an image only:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % for \includegraphics
\usepackage{lipsum}   % for filler text
\usepackage{afterpage}
\begin{document}
\section{First Section}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT A
\afterpage{\noindent\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]{image}}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT B
\section{Second Section}
\end{document}

Using a figure environment. The issue here is that earlier figures might be still unplaced and be then be placed before.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % for \includegraphics
\usepackage{lipsum}   % for filler text
\usepackage{afterpage}
\begin{document}
\section{First Section}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT A
\afterpage{%
    \begin{figure}[p]%
        \includegraphics[width=.99\textwidth,height=.99\textheight]{image}%
        %\caption{..}
    \end{figure}%
    \clearpage
}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT B
\section{Second Section}
\end{document}

This is similar to Werner's answer, but the \afterpage{..\clearpage} ensures that the figure is placed at the next page (Ok, this might be normally the case anyway). The figure could also be outside \afterpage and then an \afterpage{\clearpage} would be enough to flush it, but the code above is the safest IMHO.

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 04:44

For this you need to make the image float. So, you should use (substituting \rule{\textwidth}{\textheight} for your fullpage image):

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{graphicx} % for \includegraphics
\usepackage{lipsum}   % for filler text
\begin{document}
\section{First Section}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT A
\begin{figure}[p]
\rule{\textwidth}{\textheight}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1-4] % TEXT B
\section{Second Section}
\end{document}

Note that it is perfectly fine inserting a figure environment (that floats) without specifying a \caption.

Forcing a figure to appear on the next page

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