The problem is that the picture is placed exactly in the middle, although I used position specifier (t!). How can I instruct the latex to put the picture at the top of the page. BTW: this picture is the only element in the page.
asked Aug 7, 2012 at 20:18 545 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:22Do you have anything else on the other pages, or is your document just a single image that you want at the top of the page?
Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:23@Werner: yes. Its a 100-page document, and this figure is the last element in one of the chapters. Latex puts it on a separate page, but in the middle of the page!
Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:29 What total portion of the page is the size of the float? 50%? 70%? 90%? Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:32I assume you issue a \clearpage (or something similar) just before using \begin
The vertical spacing above the top floatpage float is defined by \@fptop . The default value of this parameter is 0pt plus 1.0fil . Hence when you have a single figure on a separate page you get white space on top. (Similarly \@fpbot is for bottom space with the value 0pt plus 1.0fil . Hence you get white space on bottom also. And \@fpsep defines the vertical spacing between floatpage floats. The default is 8pt plus 2.0fil ).
To have the figure on top, you have to define @\fptop as
\makeatletter \setlength \makeatother \documentclass \usepackage[demo] % \makeatletter \setlength \makeatother % \begin \begin[t!] \centering \includegraphics[keepaspectratio, width=0.6\textwidth] \caption \label \end \end