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I plan to use this document template for constructing my thesis: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis

However, when running in draft mode, multiple rulers appear in the header and im unable to find whats causing them. Could someone explain why they are there and how to remove them?

regards, Phil

Rulers appear when using draft mode

homocomputeris
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Philip Aldhous
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  • I won't download a zip-file from an external site to debug it. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/391022/2388. – Ulrike Fischer May 08 '19 at 09:18
  • Welcome to TeX.SE! I have downloaded the zip file and ran it; it has no problems and these rulers were never shown. Can you please elaborate on how you achieved this result (in terms of you TeX distribution or did you use Overleaf). – M. Al Jumaily May 08 '19 at 09:19
  • @M.AlJumaily the rulers only appear when draft mode is selected as an option in line 30 of the main.tex file and the rulers appear on page 3 onwards.

    I am compiling with texworks

     – Philip Aldhous May 08 '19 at 09:30
  • @esdd has the answer which works! – M. Al Jumaily May 08 '19 at 09:35
  • Or you could just not use a KOMA document class. – John Kormylo May 08 '19 at 12:43
  • @JohnKormylo The OP does not use a KOMA-Script class: book is a standard class. There are many other packages providing a draft option which can result in unwanted effects too. But with a KOMA-Script class the class option draft could be replaced by the class option overfullrule to avoid such effects. – esdd May 10 '19 at 11:37

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Your class loads package scrlayer-scrpage which adds the rulers if option draft is set. To disable the draft mode for package scrlayer-scrpage add \KOMAoptions{draft=false} to your preamble.

Example:

\documentclass[draft]{book}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}

\KOMAoptions{draft=false}% <- disables the draft mode for scrlayer-scrpage

\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
esdd
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The document class file contains this on line 278

\RequirePackage[markcase=used]{scrlayer-scrpage}

By changing to

\RequirePackage[markcase=used, draft=false]{scrlayer-scrpage}

It removes the rulers in draft mode.

Philip Aldhous
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