Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Generate PDF without floats

[ultimatesadness]

Hello,

I want to generate a PDF without figures and tables. Is there an easy way to "turn them off" ... This is for preview purpose only, so minimal changes in the tex-file are preferred.

Thanks,
US

[php1ic]

If you add "draft" to the options of \documentclass, only the bounding box of the figure will be printed

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eg change
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
to
\documentclass[a4paper,draft]{report}

Don't know how to do it with tables.

[ultimatesadness]

Thanks, but I even don't want to see bounding boxes or captions ...

[php1ic]

Are you running on linux? This is not latex, but from the command line you could filter out all of the figure and table environments then compile the rest

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sed '/begin{figure}/,/end{figure}/ d' file.tex | sed '/begin{table}/,/end{table}/ d' > new_file.tex

you should now be able to run latex on new_file.tex to get a document with no figures or tables.

[ultimatesadness]

Thank you, I'll try this workaround.
But I would prefer a package to control it from within the tex-file.

[josephwright]

You could look at the comment package, which makes environments into comments. That should enable you to temporarily "hide" whatever you want.