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Printed Documentation

About Printed Manuals

Generally, printed manuals are not provided for most products and tools. The printed manuals typically contain less information, and is also sometimes less current than the online documentation. If you want to purchase printed documentation, see the online store at the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com.

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Printing a Page from the Help Browser

To print the page currently shown in the Help browser, select File > Print, or click the Print button in the display pane toolbar. The Print dialog box appears.

Select All in the Print dialog box to print the entire page shown in the display pane. Specifying a range of pages, for example, 1 to 3, prints the first three pages of the page currently shown in the display pane.

Complete the dialog box and click OK to print.

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Printing the PDF Version of Documentation

If you need to print more than a few pages of documentation, or if you want the pages to appear as if they came from a printed book, print the PDF version of the documentation. PDF documentation is shown and printed using your PDF reader, usually an Adobe^® Acrobat^® product. The PDF documentation reproduces the look and feel of a printed book. In the PDF document, use links from the table of contents, index, or within the document to go directly to the page of interest within that document. Note that some documentation available from the Help browser is not available in PDF format.

Note   The Help browser accesses PDF documentation from the MathWorks Web site. Therefore, you need Internet access to view or print PDF documentation.

1. In the Help browser, click the Contents tab and select a product, for example, the MATLAB^® product.

   The roadmap page opens for that product, providing links to key documentation for that product.

2. Near the end of the roadmap page, listed under Printing the Documentation Set, are links for printing the documentation. Select the link for the item you want to print.

   The selected document is accessed from the MathWorks Web site. Your PDF reader opens, displaying the documentation.

   If you are using The Open Group UNIX^® platform and cannot open the PDF documentation, check the Help preferences. See PDF Reader — Specifying Its Location for more information.

3. To print the documentation, select Print from the File menu in your PDF reader.

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