save2pdf

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

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).

[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?

[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.

[Tim Woolmer]

Great stuff - just what I needed. Thanks!

[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.

[Richard Stephens]

Excellent. Just what I was looking for.

[Neil Dalchau]

Great function, provided perfect solution first time around!
Many thanks

[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?

[Arnaud]

Easy to use and 100% useful for Latex users.
Thanks!

[Mark]

Great Job. Works a charm -- has probably saved me several hours of frustration.

[Ariel Balter]

Thanks!

[Kermit]

Very good !

[Felix]

GREAT WORK!
Thank you very much, searched in so many forums to solve exactly this problem!