Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Extract Pages with Figures on them

[kbphd]

Hi,

I'm printing a large document (PhD thesis) and trying to save money by printing in B/W and printing the color pages separately.

I was thinking one approach was to output the page numbers to a text file and extract those pages using pdftk (or something like that).

I tried doing:

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\newcommand{\resetfigpage}{\immediate\write18{rm -f figpages.txt}}
\newcommand{\savefigpage}{\immediate\write18{echo Figure \thefigure\space on page \thepage\space >> figpages.txt}}
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{figure}
           {\@float{figure}}
           {\savefigpage\end@float}
\makeatother

But: the page numbers in figpages.txt were:

1. The with respect to the beginning of the main matter (i.e. didn't include about 12 roman-numeralled preamble pages).

2. Off by 1 on many occasions.

I'm thinking maybe the problem with the off by 1 is related to using the \renewenvironment{figure} rather than \renewcommand{\includegraphics}, but I couldn't work out how to do the latter.

Do you use \let?
How do you override the optional arguments for \includegraphics?
Would that at least help with my off by 1?

Cheers,

K

[kaiserkarl13]

The fancyhdr package defines an \iffloatpage command that may help you. I recommend writing something to an aux-like file and then parsing that to get the pages you want. You may be able to use the pagesel package, but only if you have a list of numbers.

Looking at the code in the pagesel package might give you some ideas on how to do this automatically (if you're brave and have time to tinker).