Hyperref not jumping to the appropriate location

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href to an image label - how to jump to the image instead of the caption below the image?

It appears that the links to the figures take the cursor to the figure label, where the label is at the top of the page. This makes the reader have to scroll up to see the figure. Also, the footnotes take me either to the previous page or sometimes it keeps me on the same page but takes the PDF to a full page view of the same page. What am I doing wrong?

MWE code:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} 
\usepackage{graphicx}            
\usepackage{amsmath}              
\usepackage{amsfonts}              
\usepackage{amsthm}                
\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[titletoc,toc,page]{appendix}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lem}[thm]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{prop}[thm]{Proposition}
\newtheorem{cor}[thm]{Corollary}
\newtheorem{conj}[thm]{Conjecture}



\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\title{Hpperref not working}

\author{N00b}

\maketitle
\newpage
\section{Main}

It appears that the links to the figures, like here for Figure ~\ref{fig:mweref}, take   the cursor to the figure label, where the Label is at the top of the page. This makes the reader have to scroll up to see the figure. Also, the footnotes, like this one \footnote{containing really useful stuff}, takes me either to the previous page or when I remove the newpage command after my title, it takes me  to the pdf with the full page view of the same page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. 
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.55]{mweref}
\caption{mweref}\label{fig:mweref}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

This PDF file is output that my TeXnicCenter is producing.

Answer 1

For the first issue, you can use the hypcap package:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}

From the package documentation:

This package tries a solution of the problem with hyperref, that links to floats points below the caption and not at the beginning of the float. Therefore this package divides the task into two part, the link setting with \capstart or automatically at the beginning of a float and the rest in the \caption command.

For the second issue, it's a well known fact that hyperref's support for fotnotes can be easily broken as the following quote from the hyperref manual indicates:

Makes the footnote marks into hyperlinks to the footnote text. Easily broken ...

However, your minimal example doesn't allow me to reproduce the problem you mentioned. Perhaps you could consider deactivating hyperlinks for footnotes?

\usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref}

You could also try some of the suggestions given in the answers to Error with hyperref + tabular + footnotes in tabular

Answer 2

This can be fixed with they hypcap package, loaded as

\usepackage[all]{hypcap}        % needed to help hyperlinks direct correctly;

Note that this is one of the few packages that needs to be loaded after the hyperref package. There are a few others, detailed in Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before?

Note that I've stripped your code down to a MWE- a lot of the packages were unnecessary in replicating the problem.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} 
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}            
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}        % needed to help hyperlinks direct correctly;

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\title{Hpperref not working}

\author{N00b}

\maketitle
\newpage
\section{Main}
 It appears that the links to the figures, like here for Figure ~\ref{fig:mweref}, take   the cursor to the figure label, where the Label is at the top of the page. This makes the reader have to scroll up to see the figure. Also, the footnotes, like this one \footnote{containing really useful stuff}, takes me either to the previous page or when I remove the newpage command after my title, it takes me  to the pdf with the full page view of the same page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. 
 \begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.55]{mweref}
\caption{mweref}\label{fig:mweref}
\end{figure}
\end{document}