CODEWITHSUNDEEP
matlab
Zanam
Zanam

Reputation: 4807

Matlab - plot directly to .ps file

Currently I am trying to do something like:

h       =   figure( 1 );
subplot( 1, 2, 1);
plot( X, Y );
grid on;
xlabel( 'abc' );
ylabel( 'xyz' );
title( 'Nice' );        
legend( 'Awesome' )

handles     =   findall( 0, 'type', 'figure' );
createPDF( 'outputFileName', numel( handles ) );

So, the above would generate a .fig output on screen. The module createPDF has calls to convert the open figure to .ps file and change them to PDF. When I run this locally on my PC I see all the figures popping up and they are then converted to .PS and ultimately to PDF

However, I am working on running this on the server as a batch process where there is no screen and hence I assume there will be no .fig output either. How do I send these plots straight to the .PS file. The above code runs in for loop and generates 45 different figures.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1810

Answers (1)

Benoit_11
Benoit_11

Reputation: 13945

The print function is what you're looking for!

print('-dpsc2','-append','YourPSFile'); %// The '-append' is used to create a single file in the loop instead of multiple files.

Whole code:

clear
clc

for k = 1:5

X = 1:10;
Y = rand(1,10);

h = figure('Visible','off');

plot( X, Y );
grid on;
xlabel( 'abc' );
ylabel( 'xyz' );
title( 'Nice' );        
legend( 'Awesome' )

print('-dpsc2','-append','YourPSFile'); %//Simply replace 'YourPSFile'with the name you want. Easy to implement in a for-loop with sprintf for instance.

end

Here is a screen shot of the pdf:

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Upvotes: 3

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