Is there a way to compile faster? e.g.: No loading figures

Question

I am editing a book and it has quite a lot of figures....I believe this is the reason why it takes long to compile.

I have to do some editing in the text, so I do not need it to load the figures for now...is there a way to do a lean compiling?

Another way: use a switch that defines \includegraphics to do nothing at all — , May 31 '16 at 16:02
Possible duplicate: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8791/15036 — Thruston, May 31 '16 at 16:07
Consider using \includeonly in general for large documents. — Thomas, May 31 '16 at 16:08
are the figures all pulled in with \includegraphics, or are some of them built within the job (e.g. with tikz code)? if the latter, things become a little more complicated, and we need a compilable example to figure out what might work best. — barbara beeton, May 31 '16 at 16:09

Andreas · Answer 1 · 2016-05-31T18:24:49.763

The memoir class can be loaded with the option draft. It also provides the macro \ifdraftdoc, which executes different code depending on whether you are in draft mode or not. You could write a macro making use of this to insert your figures, something along the lines of

\newcommand{\insertfigure}[1]{%
    \ifdraftdoc
         \fbox{Placeholder for figure #1}%
    \else
         \includegraphicx{#1}%
    \fi%
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-31T16:42:29.967

1

Concerning \includegraphics: Either use the draft class or graphicx package option or drop the action of \includegraphics into litter bin such that it does nothing.

The \foreach loop is just use to 'blow' up the document's size and compilation time.

\documentclass{memoir}% or \documentclass[draft]{memoir}


\usepackage{graphicx}% 
\usepackage{pgffor}


\newif\ifdropfigures  % At the time of definition it is false!
\dropfigurestrue % yes, we drop figures
%\dropfiguresfalse
\ifdropfigures
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
}% Ok, `\includegraphics does nothing any longer
\fi

\begin{document}
This is the output:

\foreach \x in {1,...,1000} {%  1000 times doing nothing. 
\includegraphics[scale=0.2]{ente}
}


\end{document}

edited May 31 '16 at 16:42

answered May 31 '16 at 16:11

What about the demo option if you don't care about the size of the image? – daleif May 31 '16 at 19:44
@daleif: Another option, of course. I had it in mind, but the black boxes aren't really nice – May 31 '16 at 19:58
Might not be, but (1) users don't have to add code, (2) it is faster than draft, as draft still have to read the image to get the dimensions (AFAIR) – daleif May 31 '16 at 20:15

Is there a way to compile faster? e.g.: No loading figures

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