Latex: Error: ! LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats.

When using too much floating figures or tables, latex fails to locate those elements, you may counter the error:

! LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats.

. One of solutions is to use the package 'float' and add [H] in your figure environment. Example:

\usepackage{float} %before text body

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{fig_tauid/plot_compare_tauprop_allvar_TTauAndTauIDTree_20080814_Tau_dalpha.eps}
\caption{Comparison between different samples used in tau ID study.}
\end{figure}

latex: how to post text and graph on absolute position on one page

I copied the introduction from its home page http://nxg.me.uk/dist/textpos/ :

Textpos

Lay out text and graphics at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page.

The textpos home page is at http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos

Version 1.7d, 2007 March 30.

This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, but the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a large-format conference poster. Other applications include placing material within, say, figures.

This package provides a single environment, which contains the text (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is to be placed on the page, and which specifies where it is to be placed. The environment is accompanied by various configuration commands. See the manual (pdf).