Turning off figures in latex completely (without placeholders)

Question

Is there an easy method to compile a LaTeX document ignoring contents of \begin{figure} ... \end{figure} blocks altogether?

I am looking for an equivalent for draft and demo options (as in \documentclass[demo]{article} or \usepackage[draft]{graphics}) that will ignore figure environment completely. Specifically, don't want to see any placeholders nor figure captions, just continuous text.

Is there a way to do the same thing for table environments?

@Sigur No, not really. It is for purpose of text editing - I have quite some figures in my paper and it would be a great option to save both on ink and paper. — Klara, Jan 26 '15 at 12:26
@BenjaminMcKay It would have worked if figures had no captions, but it just throws a bunch of errors: Package caption Error: \caption outside float. \caption — Klara, Jan 26 '15 at 12:28
I believe that Memoir has an MSS (or similarly named) option which duplicates a typewritten manuscript --- it may also turn off all graphics (or maybe it moves them all to the end). — WillAdams, Jan 26 '15 at 12:44
@WillAdams Could you give some link/more specific reference? I found the Memoir class, but after short search I can't find the feature you mention in the documentation. — Klara, Jan 26 '15 at 12:55

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '15 at 12:55

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You can use endfloat, telling it that it shouldn't process the delayed floats:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

%%% Remove the next two lines if you want the figures at their place    
\usepackage[figuresonly,nolists,nomarkers]{endfloat}
\renewcommand{\processdelayedfloats}{}

\usepackage{lipsum}% mock text

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{Whatever}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[2]

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{Whatever}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[3]

\begin{table}[htp]
A table
\caption{Something}
\end{table}

\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

If you want to also omit tables, remove the figuresonly option.

answered Jan 26 '15 at 12:55

egreg

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Thanks for this answer, that is exactly the kind of solution I was looking for. I was not not familiar with endfloat package at all. – Klara Jan 26 '15 at 13:56
This doesn't seem to remove longtabu environment – robertspierre Nov 24 '17 at 17:50
@raffamaiden This excludes figure and table environments, yours is a different problem. – egreg Nov 24 '17 at 17:53
@egreg how can I remove longtabu and longtable environments? \renewenvironment{longtabu}{}{} does not work. The table is still there but badly formatted – robertspierre Nov 24 '17 at 17:58
@raffamaiden Look at the comment package. – egreg Nov 24 '17 at 18:02
@egreg \includecomment{tabu} does not work either. The table is still there – robertspierre Nov 24 '17 at 18:08
Thanks anyway @egreg, here is my question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/402956/make-table-invisibles – robertspierre Nov 24 '17 at 18:26
It seems to me figure labels then go undefined ? – Joce Dec 14 '20 at 14:45
@Joce Quite likely, but what would be the reason for referencing non-existent objects? On the other hand, it's not difficult to process endfloats and then suppress the pages in the final PDF. – egreg Dec 14 '20 at 14:54
@egreg Yes that's what I've done (pdfjam). The reason is if you need to submit separately text and figures to a journal, e.g. They do exist, all be it in a separate file. – Joce Dec 14 '20 at 15:16
Can we apply this for tabular as well? – alper Dec 25 '22 at 10:00
@alper Of course not. – egreg Dec 25 '22 at 10:12

Turning off figures in latex completely (without placeholders)

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