Ehud Kaplan wrote:
In working with colleagues on a paper, there are times when I do not have the figures needed for producing the entire document, but it would be nice to see it even without the figures.
You can insert figure floats, and simply not insert any graphics files into them.
That way, you can have cross-references to all figures. The missing ones will simply be blank - just captions.
When you get figures, insert them into the existing figure floats and print again. Helge Hafting