File Exchange Pick of the Week

June 8th, 2007

In my new role at the MathWorks I am the third tier of technical support for MATLAB related questions. From here I get to see a lot of questions that people ask on a day to day basis. One that came in the other day was how to get scalable vector graphics from MATLAB. I could not find the capability in MATLAB. My next step, of course, was the File Exchange. As expected, I found a high quality implementation of this in minutes. It was written by Juerg. It worked well for the few cases that I ran as test. If you are inclined to need this file format from MATLAB, I highly recommend this SVG exporting file.

Unfortunately, not all browsers support SVG, so this screen shot is *NOT* an example of the SVG output…

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4 Responses to “Scalable Vector Graphics”

1. Colin replied on June 8th, 2007 at 09:36 UTC :
   

   very nice!

2. wald replied on October 23rd, 2007 at 03:15 UTC :
   

   I can’t see why Matlab still does not do SVG export by itself. EPS and PDF export is supported and very handy, but do not allow the flexible editing afterwards like SVG does, or at least not without expensive tools like Acrobat.
   The Matlab + SVG + Inkscape combination is hard to beat, IMHO. If one person can provide basic SVG exporting, then surely The Mathworks should be able to provide full SVG support?

3. andreas replied on November 3rd, 2010 at 10:16 UTC :
   

   bump – agree SVG export should be standard!

4. Jan Simon replied on October 11th, 2011 at 16:48 UTC :
   

   Bump – SVG export is still not included in release 2011b.

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