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save2pdf

30 Aug 2007 (Updated 15 Jan 2008)

No BSD License

Saves a figure as a PDF as it appears on the screen.

File Information
Description	SAVE2PDF saves a figure as a PDF as it appears on the screen. SAVE2PDF is stand-alone and simple--it does not require a separate installation of ghostscript. It saves figures as they appear on the screen, with the correct page size. It has the option to change the resolution to be print-quality. SAVE2PDF is particularly useful for LaTex users who want to generate PDFs to include when compiling with pdftex. The vector art information is preserved. This function simply augments the built in print-to-pdf functionality of Matlab by resizing the output PDF and shifting the displayed plot.
Acknowledgements	This submission has inspired the following: saveas2.m v1.1 (Sep 2009)
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
Other requirements	Has been tested on Windows (XP) and Linux (Fedora Core 7).

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Comments and Ratings (7)
05 Sep 2007	Dan Kominsky	Nice and does what it says. But what I'm really interested in is how to save multiple figures to a multi-page pdf without ghostscript. Any thoughts?
14 Feb 2008	Nathan Miller	Works great and I don't have to manually crop the pdfs. The only problem I have is that the legend output is different whether you use the command line 'print' or select "save as" from the figure menu. Using 'print', the legend background color is lost and the black outline shows up even when set to white. However, this is a matlab bug, not this code's problem.
15 Feb 2008	Tim Woolmer	Great stuff - just what I needed. Thanks!
30 Aug 2008	A S	Works good and helps a lot with mass-pdf-graph-generation ... pdf2ps in linux doesn't generate vectorized .ps from these pdfs, but that's not Gabe's fault.
20 Oct 2008	Richard Stephens	Excellent. Just what I was looking for.
09 Oct 2009	Neil Dalchau	Great function, provided perfect solution first time around! Many thanks
02 Mar 2010	Koos Spee	I have got one question regarding dimensions of the saved file. When I set figure position / size with: set(gcf, 'Position', [400 400 600 100]) and then apply: save2pdf('foo.pdf'); The dimensions of the image will be 450x75 Same with other values of width & height... al get resized to 75% Does anybody know why this happens?

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Updates
24 Sep 2007	Added "Save As" dialog box, so that file name can be omitted in the function call, and ability to change the resolution of the output. Default resolution would be 150 dpi, but typical print-quality should be around 600 dpi.
15 Jan 2008	Improved functioning of GUI dialog box.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
graphics import	Gabe Hoffmann	22 Oct 2008 09:24:58
graphics export	Gabe Hoffmann	22 Oct 2008 09:24:58
figure save pdf file	Gabe Hoffmann	22 Oct 2008 09:24:58

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