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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• changes (final disables markup of changes, and list of changes)

• cryptocode (disables syntax highlighting to reduce compilation time)

• flowfram (show frame, typeblock and margin bounding boxes)

• 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 (final suppresses printing of macro names and unused symbols)

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

• 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)

• pstricks (no native support, but a workaround)

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

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

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

• todonotes (with obeyDraft package only enabled in draft mode)

• varioref (turn warnings in error messages)

Related questions:

• The tag: draft (click to see questions tagged)

• Doing something only when the draft option is on?

• Disabling the draft option in a package

• Changing implementation of 'draft' option

• Not directly related but maybe interesting in this context too: How to speed up LaTeX compilation with several TikZ pictures?

Answer 2

Package: microtype

• The draft option no longer exists, but can be emulated by loading the package with disable=ifdraft:

  If the disable option is passed to the package, all micro-typographic extensions will be disabled, which may lead to different line, and hence even page, breaks. This option replaces the draft option from earlier versions, which could be inherited from the class options; to restore the previous behaviour, you may pass the value ifdraft: in this case, the disable option will be set to true if and only if the document class has been loaded with the draft option.

Has final option: no

Answer 3

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 4

Package: graphicx
Changes

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

  

Has final option too: yes

Answer 5

Package: showkeys

• draft is the default setting

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

Answer 6

Package: varioref
Changes:

• Turn error messages into warnings.

Has final option: yes

Answer 7

Package: hyperref

Changes:

• Turns all hypertext options off

final option: yes

Answer 8

Package: listings
Changes

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

  

  

Has final option too: yes

Answer 9

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 10

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 11

Package: pdfpages
Changes

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

Has final option too: yes

Answer 12

Package pgf (but not TikZ)

Changes:

• All images will be replaced by empty rectangles.

final option: yes

Answer 13

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 14

Package: changes

• Option draft is the default.

Changes with final option:

The final-option disables markup of changes, only the correct text will be shown. The list of changes is disabled, too.

Answer 15

Package: mfpic
Changes:

• Treats any pdflatex run as the first run, pretending figure files have not been created.

Has final option too: yes

Answer 16

Package: flowfram

Changes:

• Shows the bounding boxes with identifying tags for each frame, the typeblock and the margins.

Example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[draft]{flowfram}

\twocolumntop{static}{1in}

\setstaticcontents{1}{Top Area}

\begin{document}

\marginpar{Marginal Note}\lipsum*[1]

\lipsum*[2-3]\marginpar{Margin Note 2}

\end{document}

Has final option:

Answer 17

Package: pstricks

While the package pstricks does not support the class option draft, it is possible to add this behaviour:

• All pspicture environments will be replaced by white space. PSTricks commands will be ignored.

To do so use LaTeX's internal test for document class options \@ifclasswith (c.f. stackexchange question here):

\usepackage{pstricks}
\makeatletter
\@ifclasswith{article}{draft}{\PSTricksOff}{}
\makeatother

Change the article in line 3 to whatever class you have in use.

Answer 18

Package: todonotes

Note: there are no changes while using draft or final unless changes are made to the todonotes package options.

• option obeyDraft: will display the to do notes (only output the todos/todolist if in "draft mode")

Changes using final:

• option obeyFinal: will not display the to do notes (suppress output of the todos/todolist if in "final mode")