Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

April 21st, 2010

By Doug Hull

Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

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12 Responses to “Copying a figure to the clipboard”

1. Alan Marcel replied on April 21st, 2010 at 15:22 UTC :
   

   Hello Doug! I’ve followed you at twitter and I’ve found many interesting MatLab tips. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! Keep posting!

2. Roy replied on April 21st, 2010 at 16:03 UTC :
   

   Is there a way to do something similar on non-Windows platforms?

3. dhull replied on April 21st, 2010 at 16:14 UTC :
   

   @Alan,

   Thanks!

   @Roy,

   Nope, sorry!

4. lzuxz replied on April 22nd, 2010 at 02:57 UTC :
   

   Great jobs.
   But if we have multi figure in one script file,How can we handle the clipboard?

5. oh replied on April 22nd, 2010 at 13:03 UTC :
   

   >> print -dmeta
   ??? Error using ==> inputcheck>LocalCheckDevice at 250
   Error using ==> inputcheck>LocalCheckDevice at 250
   Illegal device option, '-dmeta', specified.
   
   Error in ==> inputcheck at 45
                   [ pj, devIndex ] = LocalCheckDevice( pj, cur_arg, devices );
   
   Error in ==> print at 172
       [pj, devices, options ] = inputcheck( pj, varargin{:} );
   

   My Mac version 10.4.8 and Matlab 7.5.0(R2007b)
   What’s the problem the above?

6. matt fig replied on April 22nd, 2010 at 15:53 UTC :
   

   @oh,

   As Doug stated above (comment #2), this works on Windows only. Also, you could read the help for PRINT, which specifies the -dmeta flag under the heading:

   Microsoft Windows system device driver options

7. dhull replied on April 23rd, 2010 at 18:32 UTC :
   

   @lzuxz,

   The clipboard only supports one item on the stack at a time.

   Doug

8. frank replied on May 20th, 2010 at 01:21 UTC :
   

   Good trick!
   It’s a pity that the displaying quality of zoom-out figure is poorer than the one obtained by the operation “copy figure” in the menu of figuret.

9. Lutfy replied on June 5th, 2010 at 10:04 UTC :
   

   Is there anyway to read the figure back from the clipboard into matlab?

10. dhull replied on June 8th, 2010 at 13:44 UTC :
    

    @Lutfy,

    What would it mean to ‘read the figure back from the clipboard into MATLAB’?

    Doug

11. Daniel replied on July 20th, 2011 at 07:24 UTC :
    

    Is there a way to get

     print -dmeta 

    to preserve the figure color?

    For example, the following creates a figure with a black background:

    colordef black
    figure
    membrane
    print -dmeta
    

    but the copied figure has a white background.

    Thanks,
    Dan

12. dhull replied on July 20th, 2011 at 18:56 UTC :
    

    @Daniel,

    Check on ‘inverthardcopy’.

    Doug

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