How to save a MATLAB graphic in a right size .pdf?
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I save a graphic as .pdf format, but matlab will produce an A4 size to put this small picture in the middle of this A4 size pdf. The problem comes when I import them into my LaTeX file, i only need the picture size, not the whole A4 pdf size. Could anyone tell how to solve this problem?
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Friedrich
on 3 Aug 2011
Hi,
you can do it in MATLAB through:
h = figure;
plot(1:10);
set(h,'Units','Inches');
pos = get(h,'Position');
set(h,'PaperPositionMode','Auto','PaperUnits','Inches','PaperSize',[pos(3), pos(4)])
print(h,'filename','-dpdf','-r0')
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MAzharul Islam
on 14 Apr 2022
how to get it done while exporting simulink model using print. I write the following line in my command window which gives me a full page pdf instead of croped one. But in case of other formats it produces just the figure without any white space around the figure.
print('-shomedata','-dpdf','home.pdf')
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Fereidani Samani
on 19 Sep 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 20 Sep 2018
h4=figure;
set(h4,'PaperSize',[20 10]); %set the paper size to what you want
print(h4,'filename','-dpdf') % then print it
Oliver Woodford
on 3 Aug 2011
Export_fig saves the figure at the dimensions it appears at on screen, and crops the whitespace around the figure, for a tight border.
Note that for exporting to pdf it requires that you have ghostscript installed.
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SteveC
on 29 Apr 2018
Using print or export_fig as above crop the figure, but change the fonts used in the figure. Printing to Adobe pdf can preserve the fonts by embedding them and crops the picture to the minimum size if Friedrich's setting are mode. (System: Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017, Matlab 2012b, Win 7 x64). This is much better for my application. Is there a way to have ghostscript embed the fonts in the pdf?
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