File Exchange Pick of the Week

January 23rd, 2009

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Bob's pick this week is print_pdf by Oliver Woodford.

If you export MATLAB graphics to PDF files then fuss with settings to make it look "just so" then print_pdf may be for you.

This is hardly the only such submission on the File Exchange. There are dozens of files with the "pdf" tag for example. What made this submission stand out from the pack was the activity log. First, notice the Comments and Ratings. Then scroll down to the Updates section. Oliver harnessed the power of his fan club. He was extremely responsive to make improvements based on feedback from others. We like to see this kind of social computing in the File Exchange, and encourage more posters to use the forum to improve their code.

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7 Responses to “Print PDF”

  1. farasha replied on January 23rd, 2009 at 15:48 UTC :

    very good, exporting any thing in Matlab form to pdf is so much needed in programs developments.
    Thanks for the effort and carry on

  2. Oliver Woodford replied on January 28th, 2009 at 16:01 UTC :

    Thanks for the honour, Bob.

  3. Balaji Ganeshan replied on February 11th, 2009 at 13:07 UTC :

    On the whole this is an excellent post.

    But I am having a problem using this file for guide generated figures. I have a push button within my gui to generate a pdf – however I receive an error as follows:

    ??? Error using ==> print at 310
    What follows -f is not a Figure handle.

    Error in ==> print_pdf at 48
    print(‘-depsc2′, ‘-noui’, ‘-painters’, ['-f' num2str(fig)], ‘-r864′, tmp_nam);

    Any help will be much appreciated.

  4. Jon replied on July 28th, 2010 at 20:47 UTC :

    This is great.
    Is there a way to append images into multi-layered pdf file?

    Thanks

  5. Bob replied on July 30th, 2010 at 10:51 UTC :

    Jon, I don’t know enough about PDF to address your question. You could add your question as a comment to Oliver’s submission. You could also check the newsgroup.
    http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/

  6. GHOST_01 replied on April 21st, 2011 at 22:25 UTC :

    Good Article

  7. CukDiye Film izle replied on April 21st, 2011 at 22:26 UTC :

    Oww Good Article

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