Adding the figures to a `draft` pdf

Question

Suppose you have a draft pdf, and the only difference with a desired final version of it is the lack of figures. And suppose too you have the original figures, but not the source code of the document.

What would be your best trick to achieve the document with its figures on place?

What do you mean draft document? and why do you have draft enabled? — daleif, Jan 21 '14 at 13:09
Probably the answer from this question might help. In short: add the option final to the graphicx package. — crixstox, Jan 21 '14 at 14:01
@daleif, I mean one generated with ´draft´ option on in documentclass or graphix package, so it only has frames and image paths in the place of images. Also it is not very clear in the question, so I edit it, that you have not the original source code. — Andrestand, Jan 21 '14 at 21:31
@crixstox, thanks and sorry, because the question was not complete. You don't have the .tex. — Andrestand, Jan 21 '14 at 21:34
Then you would ave to edit the PDF in some program. Without the .tex you cannot run this through LaTeX — daleif, Jan 21 '14 at 23:03
I am not saying this is the best way, but you could do this if you wanted to. If you included pages from the PDF as background images, you could then include the figures in the appropriate positions in the document. However, I cannot really think of any reason to do this. A better solution would be to use pdfpages to include the PDF and then lay the graphics over the top. But I am not sure that's possible. — cfr, Jan 22 '14 at 02:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '14 at 16:59

Example with two images tiger.pdf and flowers.eps from TDS:doc/generic/pstricks/images/:

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=10mm,vmargin={10mm,20mm}]{geometry}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[11]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{tiger}%
\end{center}
\lipsum[2]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{flowers}%
\end{center}
\end{document}

Then I have measured the positions of the image boxes (using gv, ...):

\newcommand*{\imglist}{%
  \img{1}{118bp}{306bp}{301bp}{498bp}{tiger}%
  \img{1}{118bp}{65bp}{301bp}{204bp}{flowers}%
}

The first argument of \img is the page number, then the coordinates of the lower left corner and of the upper right corner follows. The following example will use the coordinate system of PDF (gv) with horizontal values from the left and vertical values from the bottom. The last argument contains the image file name.

Then first a white box is put in the image area to clear the frame and image file name of option draft. Then the image is placed. It is assumed that the image is not distorted.

Package atbegshi is used to put the images on the foreground of the output pages. Package picture extends the picture environment. Also lengths values can be used instead of factors for \unitlength. Package pdfpages includes the original PDF file without images. And package color is needed for the white box.

Example file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\usepackage{picture}
\usepackage{color}

\newcommand*{\imglist}{%
  \img{1}{118bp}{306bp}{301bp}{498bp}{tiger}%
  \img{1}{118bp}{65bp}{301bp}{204bp}{flowers}%
}

\newcommand*{\img}[6]{%
  \ifnum#1=\value{page}%
    \AtBeginShipoutUpperLeftForeground{%
      \put({\dimexpr(#2)\relax},{-\dimexpr\paperheight-(#3)\relax}){%
        \rlap{%
          \textcolor{white}{%
            \rule{\dimexpr(#4)-(#2)\relax}{\dimexpr(#5)-(#3)\relax}%
          }%
        }%  
        \includegraphics[%
          width=\dimexpr(#4)-(#2)\relax,
          height=\dimexpr(#5)-(#3)\relax,
        ]{#6}%
      }%
    }%  
  \fi
  \ignorespaces
}
\AtBeginShipout{%
  \imglist
}

\begin{document}
  \includepdf[pages=-,fitpaper]{t.pdf}% PDF file without images
\end{document}

Adding the figures to a `draft` pdf

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