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I'm writing my paper using texlive2013.As for me,it is rather annoying to swich between writing and plotting figures.So I'd like to create a dummy figure when I was writing to avoid disturbance and add figures back later.I found a nice solution here:

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However,not only were the missing figures,other normal figures were replaced as well.Is there a way to get it around?

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    Inside your \begin{figure} ... \end{figure} you can put something like \rule{4cm}{8cm}. This could also be 'automated' using conditionals... – jon May 09 '14 at 04:25
  • http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99070/check-for-a-valid-file-before-using-includegraphics/ – Ulrike Fischer May 09 '14 at 07:02

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A small workaround, but not perfect for sure (depending on the graphics extension, it might fail) -- I use the \IfFileExists in a slightly redefined \includegraphics command. It test for four extensions (all in lower case) (.eps,.pdf, .jpg and .png)

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}


\let\StandardIncludeGraphics\includegraphics%
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
\IfFileExists{#2.eps}{%
  \StandardIncludeGraphics[#1]{#2}%
}{%
 \IfFileExists{#2.pdf}{%
  \StandardIncludeGraphics[#1]{#2}%
  }{ % No, no .pdf, try *.jpg 
   \IfFileExists{#2.jpg}{%
    \StandardIncludeGraphics[#1]{#2}%
    }{
      \IfFileExists{#2.png}{%
      \StandardIncludeGraphics[#1]{#2}%
      }{%
      \begin{tcolorbox}[width=6cm,height=4cm,arc=0mm,auto outer arc]
      \end{tcolorbox}
     }
   }
 }
}% 
%
}% End of command



\begin{document}



\chapter{First one}
\blindtext

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}

\includegraphics[width=10cm,height=8cm]{some_file}
\caption{My demo figure}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\blindtext[2]


\end{document}

The mentioned file some_file does not exist at all in my paths.

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