Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Conditional Compilation of Figures

[sgsawant]

I have figures in the paper that I am writing. Compiling the .tex file to a .pdf with figures takes time and I wanted to reduce that by conditionally compiling the figures. That is, I wanted to compile the figures after I was done with writing the text, but I still want the code to include the figures to be in its place. Is there a simple way? I tried google but couldn't understand most of the links.

-sgsawant

[localghost]

First of all you should clarify whether you are including external image files or drawing your figures with graphics packages like pgf/tikZ or PSTricks (or others).


Thorsten

[sgsawant]

Yeah, sorry about that. I am including external image files from the adjacent folder. Say for example fig1.png.

[localghost]

Then simply set the »draft« option either globally for the document class or only for the graphicx package. This will replace the images with boxes of the same size which contain the path and name of the included file.

[sgsawant]

Thanks!

I am editing this reply because I have one more question - how to compile just a single figure, while the graphicx package has been set to the "draft" option? Is there a way?

-sgsawant

[localghost]

You can give the »draft« option also locally to the \includegraphics command to exclude certain images.

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\includegraphics[draft,scale=0.5]{filename}

It goes without saying that you now have to drop the option for the document class or the package, respectively.

[sgsawant]

Thanks a lot mate!

... though I wish there was an option for a local inclusion of the keyword final.

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\includegraphics[final,width=8cm]{fig1.png}