Re: suppressing external graphics

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:49 AM 11/6/2002 -0600, Bill McClain wrote:
>I have a book-length document with many hi-res graphics. I would like to
>omit those graphics in order to make a smaller file to submit to some
>proof-readers.
>
>I have tried both: "\setupexternalfigures[option=empty]" and "texexex
>--fast". Both give the same result: the graphics are replaced by black
>rectangles, but the size of the pdf file is the same as the original
>version which included the graphics. (Very large).
>
>Oddly enough, the pdfimages utility will not extract any images from the
>"black rectangles" version, leading me to think the graphics are not
>really in the pdf file, but I don't know what would be taking up the
>same amount of space.

so, you want to ignore the graphics, even the space they take?

Hans
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