Disabling included pictures in Beamer

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I am preparing a huge document with tons of pictures and Tikz drawings (based on Beamer package). Is there a command for NOT including all the pictures inserted by \includegraphics? This might speed up the typesetting.

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '10 at 08:16

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Usually the solution \usepackage[draft]{graphicx} won't work, because beamer loads the graphicx package by itself. You'll get the message

Option clash for package graphicx

You have to pass the draft option to the package before it will be loaded. Therefore write

\PassOptionsToPackage{draft}{graphicx}

before \documentclass{...}. This should solve your problem.

answered Oct 21 '10 at 08:16

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Or you could just call \documentclass[draft]{...} - it will do a few things more than just not load the graphics; but in preparation mode most of those are useful as well. – Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson Oct 21 '10 at 15:36

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '10 at 12:49

Not related to \includegraphics but something that will speed up your typesetting in development mode: \includeonlyframes. If you label the frames you're "working" on, you can typeset just those without disturbing the auxiliary files, very similar to \includeonly.

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\includeonlyframes{foo}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[label=foo]
    First frame
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[label=bar]
    Second frame, which will not be seen.
\end{frame}
\end{document}

The beamer manual documents this feature as well.

Disabling included pictures in Beamer

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