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)?
[Tex/LaTex] How to remove the figures from a draft of the document
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Related Solutions
I've borrowed some work from Draft mode for pgfplots in the solution below.
If you use
\documentclass[draft]{article}
then all the tables will not appear. If you use
\documentclass{article}
then they'll appear as usual.
I've used the verbatim package just for the comment environment.
Measuring the dimensions of the table would be tricky- perhaps this will help someone go in that direction.
%\documentclass{article}
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\makeatletter
\@tempswafalse
\def\@tempa{draft}
\@for\next:=\@classoptionslist\do
{\ifx\next\@tempa\@tempswatrue\fi}
\if@tempswa % draft option is active
\renewenvironment{table}{\comment}{\endcomment}
\fi
\makeatother
\begin{document}
hello world
\begin{table}[!htb]
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\caption{}
\label{tab:first}
\begin{tabular}{rcl}
right & center & left \\
right & center & left
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\caption{}
\label{tab:second}
\begin{tabular}{rcl}
right & center & left \\
right & center & left
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Alternative
Or else you might prefer to load tikz or pgf and then use the following in the \ifdraft check
\renewenvironment{tabular}{%
\pgfpicture\pgfpathrectanglecorners{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{3cm}{3cm}}%
\pgfusepath{stroke}\endpgfpicture%
\comment}{\endcomment}
which gives
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}
Best Answer
I would simply use the
endfloatpackage, which places all floats (figures andtables) 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
figureenvironments using thecommentpackage: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.