Re: "Force" location of pictures.

Am 25.07.2024 um 23:19 schrieb William Unruh:

  I have a paper with 6 figures in it. Each picture takes up about 1/2 a
  page. Latex spaces out the pictures so that the second last picture
  it stuck in the middle of the Acknowledgements, and last is in the
  middle of the Bibliography. I would like them spaced closer to where
  they actually occur in the text. Is there some way of forcing the
  pictures closer to where I want them in the text?

Besides the already mentioned solutions there is the package "float". It provides an option [H] for floating environments which means to place it exactly at the position it occurs in the input. You have to decide if this is a good solution for each individual picture.
Another possibility is \clearpage before the Acknowledgements. That would ensure that all pending floats are printed, afterwards it will start a new page. But I don't know if a pagebreak is ok in your case.
Holger