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I am trying to make a draft by forcing LaTeX to ignore all images. How do I tell LaTeX to suppress all the image filenames (in the \includegraphics command) and just insert an empty box? The problem with the [draft] options is that it still requires me to have all images in the folder where I have my .tex files.

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    I took the liberty to change 'figure' to 'image' to avoid confusion with the figure environment. You apparently want only suppress the \includegraphics. – Martin Scharrer Jun 29 '11 at 17:47
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\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

will give a black box for all images. All absolute width/height settings are recognized.

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    If graphicx is loaded by another package or document class (e.g. beamer) then you can add \PassOptionsToPackage{demo}{graphicx} before \documentclass to get around the option class error. – Seamus Jun 30 '11 at 11:25
  • but could it not read the width/height from the image, just replace the content with black? I did not use absolute settings and when preparing demo the sizes are messed up – Ciprian Tomoiagă Feb 06 '19 at 10:18
  • use option draft. demo is only for testing a document where you do not have the image –  Feb 06 '19 at 11:12
  • That just doesn't do anything. – yujaiyu Apr 13 '23 at 00:22
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The quickest way I can think of is to simply redefine the command:

\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{\fbox{}}

will get you an empty box;

\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{\fbox{#2}}

will get you a box with the intended filename inside it. If you need, say, a specific size box, you can mess around with similar boxmaking commands in place of \fbox until you have it doing what you need. But the important thing is: anytime you want a command to do something different than what it does, \renewcommand! :)

Rehj Cantrell
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