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I'm working on a big document in which there are many images.
Usually, I compile it with latexmk and it works quite well. But: with all these images it's quite slow when compiling.
Is it somehow possible to compile it as a draft for the first few rounds and then as a non-draft, so the images are ignored the first few times and properly included in the last round, without editing the file inbetween?
That would save quite a lot of time.
Note that latexmk can't know which LaTeX run will be the last, so you will need to run it twice.
The first time call it like
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex %O '\PassOptionsToPackage{draft}{graphicx}\input{%S}'" <filename>
and the second time just with
latexmk -pdf -g <filename>
In the document you'll just have \usepackage{graphicx}. In my test, just one run is performed with the second command.
draftoption to\includegraphics?\includegraphics-draftwould help me here. Before compiling the last time, I'd need to remove that code parts again. My idea is to run everything in draft-mode except for the last run or so. And I have never heard of arara, how would that help me here? thanks.draftmay change several aspects of the typesetting, depending on which packages you load, so just the final run without it may not be sufficient. Thedraftoption should be only tographicx. It's an interesting question anyway.[draft]a problem?