What does the draft mode change?

Question

I wonder which changes are made by the draft option?

That means what will be changed by calling it as global class option (\documentclass[draft]{<class>}) or locally for a single package if it is available (\usepackage[draft]){<package>}.

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Note
I know that this depends on the loaded packages and if they react on the draft option or not. But I thought it could be helpful to have a overview which packages do what.

I suggest the answers to be CW and using this layout

Package/Class: `name`  
Changes

- one
- two

Has `final` option too: yes/no

If you like we can discuss the layout in meta …

Answer 1

Overview

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Classes

Print a box at the end of overfull lines.
See this answer below for a list of classes and details.

Packages

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• graphics (draw frames instead of including images)

• graphicx (draw frames instead of including images)

• hyperref (disable all linking features)

• listings (don’t include external files)

• listofsymbols

• mfpic (assume every latex run to be the first one)

• microtype (disable all features)

• pdfcomment (final suppresses the comments)

• pdfpages (don’t include external file but print a frame box)

• pgf (similar to graphics/x: all images will be replaced by empty rectangles)

• showkeys (draft shows the labels, the default option)

• thumbs (thumbs' width=2pt, thumbs' text=black, thumbs' color=grey)

• varioref (turn warnings in error messages)

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• Disabling the draft option in a package

• Changing implementation of 'draft' option

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Answer 2

package: thumbs

Changes:

Option draft (not the default) sets the thumb mark width to 2 pt, thumb mark text colour to black and thumb mark background colour to grey (gray). Either do not use this option with the thumbs package at all, or use draft=false, or final, or final=true to get the original appearance of the thumb marks.

final option: yes

Answer 3

Package pgf (but not TikZ)

Changes:

• All images will be replaced by empty rectangles.

final option: yes

Answer 4

Document classes

Standard: article, book, report
AMS: amsart, amsbook, amsproc
KOMA-Script: scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt, scrlttr2
Other: proc, memoir

Changes:

• Print a mark for overfull lines

  

Have final option too: yes

Related questions:

• Can I have the \overfullrule rule colored in pdfLaTeX?

• \underfullrule?

• Suppress black box at end of line

Answer 5

Package: listings
Changes

• Doesn’t include external file but prints their caption and makes their labels.

  

  

Has final option too: yes/no

Answer 6

Package: hyperref

Changes:

• Turns all hypertext options off

final option: yes

Answer 7

Package: graphicx
Changes

• Prints frames containing the file name instead of including the images

  

Has final option too: yes

Answer 8

Package pdfcomment

• Option draft is the default.

Changes with final option:
- “PDF annotations will not be typeset and will not influence line breaking.” (In other words: The lines will change, if inline annotations have been used.)

Answer 9

Package: listofsymbols
Changes:

• Option draft is default with this package.
• Option final removes the macronames from the lists. Symbols that are not used in the document are omitted from the List of Symbols and from the List of Subscripts.

Has final option too: yes (see above)

Answer 10

Package: mfpic
Changes:

• Treats any pdflatex run as the first run, no matter the meta file existence conditions.

Has final option too: yes

Answer 11

Package: microtype

• All microtyping is disabled which may lead to different line breaking

  If the draft option is passed to the package, all micro-typographic extensions will be disabled, which may lead to different line, and hence page, breaks. The draft and final options may also be inherited from the class options; of course, you can override them in the package options. E. g., if you are using the class option draft to show any overfull boxes, you should load microtype with the final option.

Has final option: yes

Answer 12

Package: varioref
Changes:

• Turn error messages into warnings.

Has final option: yes

Answer 13

Package: pdfpages
Changes

• Does not insert pages, but prints a box and the filename instead.

Has final option too: yes

Answer 14

Package: showkeys

• draft is the default setting

Has final option: yes, it disables all package functionality.