Print frames rather than boxes with demo/draft version of graphics/graphicx

Question

I recently switched to demo such that I could compile my .tex file without needing the actual image files. Now, instead of the image there is a black box. Is there anyway to get a black border such that when I am printing copies of this I don't waste precious black ink.

Your precious black ink, haha – Daniel Jun 06 '13 at 18:18 — Daniel, Jun 06 '13 at 18:18
@Daniel in these hard financial times, every penny counts – puk Jun 07 '13 at 21:01 — puk, Jun 07 '13 at 21:01

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '11 at 22:51

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\usepackage{graphicx}

\makeatletter
  \AtBeginDocument{%
    \def\Ginclude@graphics#1{%
      \begingroup\fboxsep=-\fboxrule
      \fbox{\rule{\@ifundefined{Gin@@ewidth}{150pt}{\Gin@@ewidth}}{0pt}%
        \rule{0pt}{\@ifundefined{Gin@@eheight}{100pt}{\Gin@@eheight}}}\endgroup}}
\makeatother

answered Oct 05 '11 at 22:51

egreg

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I wonder why graphics doesn't do that automatically when the draft option is set. – Caramdir Oct 05 '11 at 23:01
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@Caramdir File a request at www.latex-project.org – egreg Oct 06 '11 at 07:39
@egreg Any way to wrap this in a macro so that I can call it when I want it? I changed #1 to ##1 when it is wrapped, but I run into trouble because my includegraphics path is a macro itself. So paths look like \maclibrary Images/pic.jpg (##1). It works, but not if I want to write the file path to the page e.g. \parbox{\@ifundefined{Gin@@ewidth}{150pt}{\Gin@@ewidth}}{##1} – Jonathan Komar May 03 '16 at 13:19
@macmadness86 Isn't this the draft option? – egreg May 03 '16 at 13:29
@egreg Nevermind. I think the problem is my macro expands to underscores! I am foolish for not recognizing that some images have underscores in the filenames! Lesson here that I should have learned a long time ago: file system naming conventions do not overlap with LaTeX character category code conventions! – Jonathan Komar May 03 '16 at 13:58

Werner · Answer 2 · 2011-10-05T23:02:21.937

Since the demo option to graphicx makes all \includegraphics commands print a 150pt x 100pt rectangle and there's no way around that easily, you could just redefine the \includegraphics command:

\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
  \setlength{\fboxsep}{-\fboxrule}% Remove frame separator/gap
  \framebox{\rule{0pt}{100pt}\rule{150pt}{0pt}}% Framed box of 150pt x 100pt
}

Now you can remove the demo option from graphicx and use the document as is with the same \framebox-filled result. Since the command has the same format \includegraphics[..]{...}, no further modifications are needed; all arguments (both optional and mandatory) are discarded.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '11 at 23:16

Here is another way (albeit slightly overkill with \tkiz for drawing the box, but you can adapt the other solutions for the box drawing if that is not desired -- I tend to think \tikz first for some reason :-). The only real enhancement here from the other solutions is to use \def\DemoOption{demo} when in demo mode and \def\DemoOption{} when not in demo mode. This could be improved by using a command line option to set \DemoOption.

Since the graphicx pacakge defines \def\Ginclude@graphics when in demo mode, we just need to redfine that after \begin{document}:

\def\DemoOption{demo}% Use this in demo mode
%\def\DemoOption{}% Use this when done want figures included
\RequirePackage[\DemoOption]{graphicx}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xstring}

\begin{document}
\makeatletter%
\IfStrEq{\DemoOption}{demo}{%
    \renewcommand{\Ginclude@graphics}[1]{%
      \tikz \draw (0,0) rectangle (150pt,100pt);%
}}{}%
\makeatother

\includegraphics{whatever}
\end{document}

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 08 '17 at 05:44

You can use the package draftfigure to get the same result and modify the display of the switched off figure:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[allfiguresdraft]{draftfigure}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=50pt]{example-image-a}

\includegraphics[draft=false,width=50pt]{example-image-b}

\setdf{content={This figure is switched off.}}
\includegraphics[width=50pt]{example-image-c}

\end{document}

Print frames rather than boxes with demo/draft version of graphics/graphicx

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