Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ separate figures from text

[tguozden]

Hi everyone:

I am printing my thesis which includes figures in colour. Te question is this:

Can I make 2 separate outputs
-one which contains the text only, leaving a blank space for the figures,
-and the other with the figures leaving a blank space for the text?

This way I could print the text in a laser printer, and then print the figures in an inkjet colour printer.

[tguozden]

It should not be too hard to do, and the advantages justify it. Every office has a fast big laser printer and important people have personal color inkjets that one can borrow. Any ideas????

[localghost]

[...] It should not be too hard to do, and the advantages justify it. [...]

If so, you should be able to figure this out on your own. I personally have no idea at the moment (and no time to think about).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[tguozden]

I went searching almost the whole web for an answer but nothing came along. I meant that there has to be a way to do this, it seems that somebody should have done this sort of "collage" of text and figures.

Thanks and regards

Tomás.-

[frabjous]

You could switch to "phantom" for the images to produce an empty box of the appropriate size.

Phantom won't work across paragraphs, but I guess you could switch to white text. (Hopefully the color printer won't waste white ink for this. If it does, you might be in trouble.)

So the code below is currently set up to print graphics but not text. To switch to text but not graphics, you'd comment out the \renewcommand line, and the \color line.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\toggleimage}[1]{\phantom{\includegraphics{#1}}}
\renewcommand{\toggleimage}[1]{\includegraphics{#1}}
\begin{document}
\color{white}
\lipsum[1]

\toggleimage{myimage}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

However, this all strikes me as a colossally bad idea.

I don't have access to any kind of color printer most of the time. Does that make me not important? But even if I did, I don't trust such devices to line up perfectly straight or aligned anyway, so I doubt I'd get nice looking results. I also find that a lot of printers jammed on paper already having ink on it.

[tguozden]

Thanks very much! I was worried because I could still see the text in the .dvi file, but when I printed the postscript only the figures came out!

I have to print 180 pages with almost the same amount of figures. Hope that the ink printer doesn't mess it all up.

[tguozden]

One last thing, how should I redefine the command \includegraphics, since I also put aditional setting like the width or height of the figure..

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\includegraphics[width=4cm]{Figuras/Figus_Intro/davinci.eps}

[tguozden]

this is it..

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\newcommand{\toggleimage[2]  }{\phantom{\includegraphics[#1]{#2}}}

[tguozden]

just one more thing.. ther seems to be a problem with the phantom command when there are two consecutive figures like, for example

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\toggleimage[width=4cm]{Figuras/Figus_Intro/galileo_1.eps}
\hspace{5cm}
\toggleimage[width=1cm]{Figuras/Figus_Intro/galileo_2.eps}\hspace{1cm}

Casually I found a way to fix this, by putting an invisible caracter just before the phantom this way

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\newcommand{\toggleimage[2] }{\textcolor{white}{.}\phantom{\includegraphics[#1]{#2}}}

This is not an elegant solution but I have just printed 8 pages of my thesis first in the laser printer and after in the ink printer. It worked perfectly. To me this is a wonderful achievement, because I won't have to buy extra black ink cartridges plus I get the text with laser quality.


Thanks very very much.