Placement option in org mode for tables and figures does not work

Question

#+attr_latex: placement=[!htpb]
#+CAPTION: Some caption
[[../some-image.pdf]]

exports as:

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{../some-image.pdf}
\caption{Some caption}
\end{figure}

So I end up having to do:

#+latex:\begin{table}[!htpb]
[[../some-image.pdf]]
#+latex:\caption{Some caption}
#+latex:\end{table}

Which is kind of silly

Answer 1

#+ATTR_LaTeX: syntax differs among Org-mode versions. You don't need = in org-mode ver 8. I hope following works.

#+CAPTION: Some caption
#+NAME: Some-label-here
#+ATTR_LaTeX: :height 5cm :placement [!htpb]
#+ATTR_HTML: :width 480
file:images/some-image.pdf