[Tex/LaTex] Display only a single figure when in draft mode

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How can I enable a single figure when in draft mode?

I am working on a large document (thesis) containing many figures. Some of these figures are large, resulting in long compile times. I can fix this by switching the document to draft mode.

However, when I am adding a figure, and associated discussion, I will generally want to see the figure in full, in place. Also, since I'm adding something new I'll often be re-compiling minor changes to see how it looks.

What I would like to do is to have the document set to draft mode (figures not being loaded) but have the "active" figure displayed until I'm finished with it. I don't know of any way to do this. is it possible?

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Just set draft=false for the picture you want to be shown anyway:

\documentclass[draft]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\includegraphics[width=50pt]{example-image-a}

\includegraphics[draft=false,width=50pt]{example-image-b}

\includegraphics[width=50pt]{example-image-c}

\end{document}

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To get a line break between (some of) the subfigures, just provide a blank line where the break should occur -- no need for \\.

By the way, I had to comment out the instruction \usepackage{stfloats} to get your code to compile. Do you really need this package?

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\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % added to make your file compilable
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
%\usepackage{stfloats}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}
\subfloat[Vector Field]{\includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{figs/Case1/quiver_vector_field}} \hfill
\subfloat[Curl-free Component]{\includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{figs/Case1/quiver_rotational_free}} \hfill
\subfloat[Divergence-free Component]{\includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{figs/Case1/quiver_divergence_free}} \hfill
\subfloat[Harmonic]{\includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{figs/Case1/quiver_harmonic}} 

\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{figs/Case1/quiver_colorbar}} 
\caption{Mean vector fields. The color bar represents the vectors magnitudes.}
\label{fig:case1_meanvecs}
\end{figure*}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Quick draft mode

You may want to specify the draft option at the \documentclass level rather than at the level of individual packages. That way, the option will be passed to all packages that recognize it, further speeding up the compilation process. The hyperref package, for one, recognizes the option draft as well; if the option is specified, all hypertext options are turned off and no hyperlinking is performed.

Oh, the opposite of "draft" is "final".

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