Document classes

Standard: article, book, report
AMS: amsart, amsbook, amsproc
KOMA-Script: scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt, scrlttr2
Other: proc, memoir

Changes:

• Print a mark for overfull lines

  

Have final option too: yes

Related questions:

• Can I have the overfullrule rule colored in pdfLaTeX?

• underfullrule?

• Suppress black box at end of line

Package: graphicx
Changes

• Prints frames containing the file name instead of including the images

  

Has final option too: yes

Package: listings
Changes

• Doesn’t include external file but prints their caption and makes their labels.

  

  

Has final option too: yes

Package: microtype

• All microtyping is disabled which may lead to different line breaking

  If the draft option is passed to the package, all micro-typographic extensions will be disabled, which may lead to different line, and hence page, breaks. The draft and final options may also be inherited from the class options; of course, you can override them in the package options. E. g., if you are using the class option draft to show any overfull boxes, you should load microtype with the final option.

Has final option: yes

Package: showkeys

• draft is the default setting

Has final option: yes, it disables all package functionality.

Package: pdfpages
Changes

• Does not insert pages, but prints a box and the filename instead.

Has final option too: yes

Package: varioref
Changes:

• Turn error messages into warnings.

Has final option: yes

Package: mfpic
Changes:

• Treats any pdflatex run as the first run, pretending figure files have not been created.

Has final option too: yes

Package: listofsymbols
Changes:

• Option draft is default with this package.
• Option final removes the macronames from the lists. Symbols that are not used in the document are omitted from the List of Symbols and from the List of Subscripts.

Has final option too: yes (see above)

Package: hyperref

Changes:

• Turns all hypertext options off

final option: yes

Package: pdfcomment

• Option draft is the default.

Changes with final option:

“PDF annotations will not be typeset and will not influence line breaking.”

(In other words: The lines will change, if inline annotations have been used.)

Package pgf (but not TikZ)

Changes:

• All images will be replaced by empty rectangles.

final option: yes

package: thumbs

Changes:

Option draft (not the default) sets the thumb mark width to 2 pt, thumb mark text colour to black and thumb mark background colour to grey (gray). Either do not use this option with the thumbs package at all, or use draft=false, or final, or final=true to get the original appearance of the thumb marks.

final option: yes

Package: changes

• Option draft is the default.

Changes with final option:

The final-option disables markup of changes, only the correct text will be shown. The list of changes is disabled, too.

Package: flowfram

Changes:

• Shows the bounding boxes with identifying tags for each frame, the typeblock and the margins.

Example:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage[draft]{flowfram}

twocolumntop{static}{1in}

setstaticcontents{1}{Top Area}

begin{document}

marginpar{Marginal Note}lipsum*[1]

lipsum*[2-3]marginpar{Margin Note 2}

end{document}

Has final option:

Package: todonotes

Note: there are no changes while using draft or final unless changes are made to the todonotes package options.

• option obeyDraft: will display the to do notes (only output the todos/todolist if in "draft mode")

Changes using final:

• option obeyFinal: will not display the to do notes (suppress output of the todosétodolist if in "final mode")

Package: pstricks

While the package pstricks does not support the class option draft, it is possible to add this behaviour:

• All pspicture environments will be replaced by white space. PSTricks commands will be ignored.

To do so use LaTeX's internal test for document class options @ifclasswith (c.f. stackexchange question here):

usepackage{pstricks}
makeatletter
@ifclasswith{article}{draft}{PSTricksOff}{}
makeatother

Change the article in line 3 to whatever class you have in use.