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Matfig2PGF

11 Nov 2006 (Updated 22 May 2009)

Code covered by the BSD License

Convert figures to PGF files that can be included in LaTeX documents.

File Information
Description	Matfig2PGF is script that allows users to convert MATLAB figures to PGF <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/>. PGF figures can be included in a LaTeX document using the PGF macro package. The PGF package works with most important LaTeX backends (such as pdfTeX and Dvips). Using Matfig2PGF all text in the figure is typeset by LaTeX, so it blends in nicely with the rest of the document. Features: - 2D plots - subplots - histograms - linear and logarithmic axes - grids - legends - line styles and plot marks - resulting pgf file can be used in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX The current version is 0.3.9
Acknowledgements	This submission has inspired the following: fig2texPS - Export Matlab Figure to LaTeX , matlab2tikz
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)
Zip File Content
Other Files	license.txt, matfig2pgf.m, matfig2pgf_gui_options.m, matfig2pgf_menu.m, matfig2pgf_options.m, README, useroptions.cfg.example

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Comments and Ratings (12)
10 Feb 2007	Shengshan Cui	I just want to see this work is awesome! It frees me from touching up Matlab figures or using Gnuplot to get high quality figures. In addition, with more and more LaTeX users using PGF, this work will be appreciated by more people. Thanks for the excellent work!
10 Jun 2007	Dietrich Brunn	Excellent Tool - like it
28 Jun 2007	Martin Heller	Very nice tool! It would be great if draw_patch could take CData into account if FaceColor=flat.
10 Sep 2007	mathan mathan	hai
04 Dec 2007	Mukhtar Ullah	Very useful. It would be very nice to have two more features: 1) latex allowed in the tick-labels. 2) multiple axes in the same figure.
26 Mar 2008	Peadar Grant	Very nice indeed - this must have taken a lot of work. I only wish I discovered this earlier.
26 Jun 2008	a s	Very nice contribution. A few remarks, though: * In the subfunction draw_patch, scaled indexed colouring is taken care of for edges, but not for faces. I had to add conversion to direct index to avoid errors. * In some patch plots the axis grid should be visible above the patch object. As it is now, grid lines disappear. * Does not recognize image objects and surface objects. * My Matlab has started closing down without warning when I use this function. Might be a coincidence, though. Will keep using this, it works brilliantly for ordinary line plots.
24 Dec 2008	Matt Fig	I like the name!
25 Dec 2008	Petter	I wish that it was possible to set the figure width from within the LaTeX document.
16 Feb 2009	Ian Washington	One of the best tools I've seen for figure conversion. I also would like to see an update to allow for figure width control from within latex, if it's not to difficult to implement. Capability for 3D plots would also improve this tool.
09 Jun 2009	Jason Wigg	A very, very nice contribution! Really wish I had found it earlier. My only suggestion would be to implement something to check axes titles and legends to escape out LaTeX key characters. For example I have a plot with the title 'Voltage & Current against Time', which errors out when converted to pgf, as it needs to be 'Voltage \& Current against Time'.
08 Oct 2009	Juan Pablo	I'm running Matlab 7.5.0.338 (R2007b) on Debian (Lenny) and it just worked out of the box.

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Updates
13 Dec 2006	mod
02 Jan 2007	New version: Matfig2PGF 0.3
02 Jul 2007	Updated to version 0.3.1
13 Aug 2007	New version with bug fix
07 Dec 2007	New version with a few bugfixes
21 Jan 2008	New version (0.3.4)
31 Mar 2008	New version (0.3.5)
07 Jul 2008	There's an error in the file I uploaded about an hour ago. Please ignore that file and use this one.
11 Aug 2008	New version (0.3.7)
24 Dec 2008	New version with a couple of bug fixes.
22 May 2009	New version with a bug fix.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
graphics import	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
graphics export	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
latex	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
tex	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
export	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
convert	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
figures	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45
pgf	Paul Wagenaars	22 Oct 2008 08:48:45

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