Using Print command to save pdf of figure to a different directory
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Thomas Jacobs
on 21 Mar 2014
Commented: Mehdi Zomorodian
on 14 Sep 2017
Hi,
I have struggled to create a pdf of a figure and put it in a Latex directory for inclusion in an academic paper. I can create the pdf with no difficulty to the present matlab working directory which is C:\Thomas Jacobs\Dropbox\Matlab:
...
h=gcf;
set(h,'Position',[0 0 1200 800]);
set(h,'PaperOrientation','landscape');
set(h,'PaperPositionMode','auto');
print(gcf,'-dpdf','SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf');
however, when I try to change the target directory to a Latex subfolder:
...
h=gcf;
set(h,'Position',[0 0 1200 800]);
set(h,'PaperOrientation','landscape');
set(h,'PaperPositionMode','auto');
print(gcf,'-dpdf','C:\Thomas Jacobs\Dropbox\Latex\Research\FHLB Advances\SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf');
I get:
>> FHLB_SVGL2_Analysis Error using name (line 102) Cannot create output file 'C:\Thomas Jacobs\Dropbox\Latex\Research\FHLB Advances\SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf'
Error in print (line 210) pj = name( pj );
Error in FHLB_SVGL2_Analysis (line 70) print(gcf,'-dpdf','C:\Thomas Jacobs\Dropbox\Latex\Research\FHLB Advances\SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf');
This target directory is not in my matlab path and the delay between the creation of the figure on my screen and the program completion makes me wonder if this is some sort of write permission issue. While I have seen many combinations of using other commands like saveas, sprintf, etc., I have not found an exact analogy for my issue on the forum and would appreciate it if one of you could share some further troubleshooting steps for me. Thanks.
Tom
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Mehdi Zomorodian
on 14 Sep 2017
Dear Thomas,
As I understood, the print function cannot create a new directory, so if you try to save your file in a new one, you will face this problem. So, a quick solution is to create the directory manually or by coding before trying to use print function.
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Thomas Jacobs
on 22 Mar 2014
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Joseph Cheng
on 22 Mar 2014
Good to hear that you were able to figure it out. Cannot believe I missed the Users, however I still try to go to Documents and Settings once and a while to look for my documents.
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Joseph Cheng
on 21 Mar 2014
can you use
...
h=gcf;
set(h,'Position',[0 0 1200 800]);
set(h,'PaperOrientation','landscape');
set(h,'PaperPositionMode','auto');
print(gcf,'-dpdf','SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf');
movefile('SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf','C:\Thomas Jacobs\Dropbox\Latex\Research\FHLB Advances\SVGL_2Yr_Annual.pdf')
If that's the case it might not be a permissions issue.
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Joseph Cheng
on 21 Mar 2014
I don't like it either! I guess I could have suggested trying to fid = fopen a random temp file? But it was something that would test out writing to the directory and I cannot see anything wrong with his command.
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