[Tex/LaTex] Quick draft mode

draft

Writing a document with quite a few figures (50+) so when it complies, it can take 3-5 minutes. When I want to run it in draft mode, it reduces the compile time to about 5 seconds which is loads better so I'm doing it a lot. I'm using:

\usepackage{graphicx}

and

\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}

for normal and draft mode respectively on texmaker. My question is: is there some kind of macro or command I can write so I can change between modes without having to navigate to line 163 in my document master and write or delete '[draft]' each time I switch? I'd love to be able to build either using 'f1' for build and 'ctrl+f1' for draft build for example.

I know it sounds lazy, but if it can be done, I'd like to.

Cheers.

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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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[Tex/LaTex] Draft mode for pgfplots

Following a suggestion of @percusse, here's a (perhaps too) simple way:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\ifdim\overfullrule>0pt % draft option is active
  \usepackage{environ}
  \let\tikzpicture\relax
  \let\endtikzpicture\relax
  \NewEnviron{tikzpicture}{%
    \begin{pgfpicture}
    \pgfpathrectanglecorners{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{3cm}{3cm}}%
     \pgfusepath{stroke}\end{pgfpicture}%
  }
\fi

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{axis}
    \addplot[thick] {x^2};
  \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

The draft option sets \overfullrule to 5pt. A safer way would be to check whether draft appears in the global options, saved in \@classoptionslist:

\makeatletter
\@tempswafalse
\def\@tempa{draft}
\@for\next:=\@classoptionslist\do
  {\ifx\next\@tempa\@tempswatrue\fi}
\if@tempswa % draft option is active
  \usepackage{environ}
  \let\tikzpicture\relax
  \let\endtikzpicture\relax
  \NewEnviron{tikzpicture}{%
    \begin{pgfpicture}
    \pgfpathrectanglecorners{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{3cm}{3cm}}%
    \pgfusepath{stroke}
    \end{pgfpicture}%
  }
\fi

Of course a really satisfying solution would draw a box as wide as the picture it represents, provided the information is available, instead of a fixed rectangle.

There's a problem with the former solution: all \tikz...; inline pictures will be transformed into boxes and some text would be lost. Here's a more complicated way to cope with this problem

\makeatletter
\@tempswafalse
\def\@tempa{draft}
\@for\next:=\@classoptionslist\do
  {\ifx\next\@tempa\@tempswatrue\fi}
\if@tempswa % draft option is active

  \usepackage{environ,etoolbox}

  \let\tikz@@tikzpicture\tikzpicture
  \let\tikz@@endtikzpicture\endtikzpicture
  \patchcmd\tikz@opt{\tikzpicture}{\tikz@@tikzpicture}{}{}
  \patchcmd\tikz@collectnormalsemicolon{\endtikzpicture}{\tikz@@endtikzpicture}{}{}
  \chardef\@tempa=\catcode`\;
  \catcode`\;=\active
  \patchcmd\tikz@collectactivesemicolon{\endtikzpicture}{\tikz@@endtikzpicture}{}{}
  \catcode`\;=\@tempa

  \let\tikzpicture\relax
  \let\endtikzpicture\relax
      \NewEnviron{tikzpicture}{%
        \begin{pgfpicture}
        \pgfpathrectanglecorners{\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{3cm}{3cm}}%
        \pgfusepath{stroke}
        \end{pgfpicture}%
      }
    \fi

We save the original meanings of \tikzpicture and \endtikzpicture, patching the relevant macros to use the aliases.

[Tex/LaTex] Draft-mode in XeLaTeX

XeTeX does not have a draft mode. However, it compiles the PDF in two steps, first an extended DVI (XDV) is created and then converted by xdvipdfmx to PDF. The second step can be avoided by specifying option --no-pdf:

xelatex --no-pdf test

The command line option can neither be set or asked at TeX macro level.

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