Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

September 10th, 2007

If you are tired of printing black and white files from the Editor, try setting some pretty printing options. To print the Editor or the Command Window with full color and headers, select the File menu, Page Setup menuitem. The following dialog comes up and provides a lot of options. This first pane provides options for printing in color, printing a header, printing line numbers, and whether to wrap lines in the printout.

The second pane is the Header setup pane. On this pane you can choose how you want the header to look including the format of the line numbers.

In the final pane, you can even select to print in a font that is not currently displayed in the Command Window or Editor.

Now, go print stuff!

By Kristin Thomas

Kristin is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. She works primarily on the Command Window when she is not throwing herself down a mountain on her snowboard.

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4 Responses to “Pretty printing”

1. Gaurav replied on September 10th, 2007 at 09:50 UTC :
   

   It will be nice if you can post screenshots from Windows machines too (sometimes if not always). It will make following the steps you list far more easier.

   Thanks.

2. kena replied on September 10th, 2007 at 14:51 UTC :
   

   Thanks for the feedback, we’ll definitely include more Windows screenshots. The prevalence of Mac screenshots is not by explicit intent, but is due to the reality that our most passionate desktop bloggers are Mac devotees. Whether this speaks to the general mindset of the Macintosh community, or is pure coincidence, is a thought exercise left to the reader. :)

   KEN

3. Gaurav replied on September 10th, 2007 at 23:54 UTC :
   

   Thank you.

   I just hope the Mac ‘devotees’ at Mathworks don’t turn fanatics and suddenly stop making good software for Windows users.

   Or are Mathworks developers planning to only cater to the “Mac experience”?

4. jayhawkbabe replied on November 10th, 2007 at 16:32 UTC :
   

   @Gaurav,
   Your comments seem a bit unwarranted given that supporting Matlab on Windows requires a great deal of OS-specific development (every *other* operating system supports X11) and that a number of toolboxes are even exclusive to Windows (Excel link, Builder for Excel, and Builder for .NET).

   In response to your original post, the differences between the Mac and Windows GUIs really aren’t that significant–I use the Mac version daily and am forced to use the Windows version at least once a week. Certainly someone who is capable of using the Editor should be able to extrapolate from the screenshots provided to the appropriate version of Matlab.

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