After adding about 30 scanned images into an appendix, I started getting “too many unprocessed floats” errors. Doing a little digging, I found that many of the images were starting to back up on each other. LaTeX was getting plugged up and was barfing.
The solution:
Add this to your top-level file:
\usepackage[section] {placeins}
By using the placeins package with the section option selected, LaTeX is forced to dump all of the unprocessed floats at the end of each section. There are a few other ways to do it with that package but this way made the most sense to me. Doing that, I get no more errors! Well, at least from that problem.
Tags: LaTeX, Masters Thesis, placeins, usepackage
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You just saved my day! Love you! Had the same problem and didn’t find a solution until I read your entry! Thanks very much!
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Glad it helped. It was driving me nuts until I found the solution, too. Thus I figured I should post it in case other people have the same trouble.
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Glad it helped!
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Thanks for the tip! This was one of the top search results in Google (and only one which had a short and easy answer
. I was separating all my float images into separate chapters before I though of searching for this error.-
It baffled me for quite a long time before I finally struck upon the solution buried in some obscure manual. Hope this keeps helping people!
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Thanks man,
You just saved me! 4 hours to the deadline and was stuck in arranging the report.
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Hey glad it helped! It took me a couple days to figure out the solution.
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Unfortunately, this is not working for me. I have about 100 figures at the end of each Chapter. I added
\usepackage[section] {placeins} to my preamble…didn’t work. Then I changed it to \usepackage[chapter] {placeins}…didn’t work. Any other solutions?? As a work around I do \clearpage but this creates blank pages.. Help!!??-
At that point you might be better off putting all of the figures into appendices… Otherwise I don’t know how you’d force that many figures to fall where you place them in the text.
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if you have so many figures “\userpackage[section]{placeins}” won’t be enough , you have to manually insert a point beyond which floats may not pass. To do this insert a \FloatBarrier every 20 figures or so. That should be enough to fix your problem
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Cool thanks for the tip!
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Ok. That is unfortunate. Ummm so for each chapter I guess I can have a designated appendix. Is that how you do this?? And then just place the figures into each appendix sectio with the \usepackage[section] {placeins} within the preamble and everything should be set??? I just want to understand how exactly you did this. Thanks so much for this blog!!
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Yeah that should work. Actually if you are placing the figures in an appendix, you might not even need the placeins package.
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First of all, thank you so much for sharing so nice knowledge, but my problem is going on. Please help
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What is it doing exactly?
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Well, you just saved another one!
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which is to say: thank you very much
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You’re welcome
Glad I could help!
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oooooooooooh you save my life!! thank you very much
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You’re welcome. Glad I could help!
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Un grand merci pour ce tuyaux, ça m’aide vraiment beaucoup. Bon travail
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Glad it helped, Andrea!
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