I'm working on a research paper with many figures in it. To save paper, I would like to exclude the figures when I print drafts of the paper. Is there an easy way to do this (via command-line option, graphicx option, or something else)?
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1Related Question: What measure can we use by LaTeX to control the print budget – Peter Grill Apr 5 '12 at 18:17
I would simply use the endfloat
package, which places all floats (figure
s and table
s) at the very end of the document. Then you can print only the leading pages with the text using the page range selection of your PDF viewer.
Alternatively, you can make LaTeX ignore all figure
environments using the comment
package:
\usepackage{comment}
\excludecomment{figure}
\let\endfigure\relax
See How to exclude text portions by simply setting a variable or option? for more details. A drawback here is that the label references won't work properly.
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6This gave me an issue
Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup
which can be fixed by adding an extra line:\let\endfigure\relax
as stated here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29060/… – Gabriel Aug 19 '14 at 15:30 -
Even though it's mentioned explicitly in the user guide of the
comment
package, it's worth repeating here: the\excludecomment{figure}
method requires all\end{figure}
directives to be on lines by themselves; nothing before\end{figure}
on those lines, and nothing after\end{figure}
either. – Mico Jun 22 '18 at 11:49
Just add the draft
option when you load your document class, e.g.:
\documentclass[draft]{article}
You can also add the option to the graphicx
package:
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
If you want to save space, you can do as follows:
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}{\relax}
Or if you want to use the ifdraft
package, you can do thus:
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{ifdraft}
\ifdraft{\renewcommand{\includegraphics}{\relax}}{\relax}
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This option makes
graphicx
not include the images but prints frames with the same size so it doesn’t save space/paper but ink … – Tobi Apr 5 '12 at 18:21 -
6Note that your redefinition let things like
[scale=1]{file}
stay in the text. Better use\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{}
to gobble the arguments. The\relax
is not necessary in this case, I guess. – Tobi Apr 5 '12 at 18:27
While the draft
option replaces all graphics by frames with the same size, you may like to redefine \includegraphics
so that it prints only the file name in an \fbox
to save space/paper:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
\fbox{#2}% print file name in a small box
}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=2cm,height=3cm]{imagefile}
\caption{Caption text}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
Notes
To suppress the file name box, too, replace the redefinition with
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{}
.The option
demo
letsgraphicx
print black boxes instead of searching the file to include it. It has nothing to do with your question but is useful for the demonstration ;-)The package
lipsum
provides blind text and doesn’t belong to the solution.