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Saving figures to emf from linux

Daniel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:55:06 -0400

I have numerous scripts that generate plots and then save
them as EMF files. They run beautifully on windows.

I recently decided that I wanted to offload some of the
processing to a linux server. It however, is unable to save
a file as EMF.

??? Error using ==> saveas at 156
Unsupported format or extension: emf

Is there a workaround or something I can install? I am
using R2007a. I would like to avoid changing everything to jpg.

Thanks.

Re: Saving figures to emf from linux

Richard Quist — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:37:01 -0400

"Daniel " <dan@borellos.com> wrote in message
<fsh53q$529$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have numerous scripts that generate plots and then save
> them as EMF files. They run beautifully on windows.
>
> I recently decided that I wanted to offload some of the
> processing to a linux server. It however, is unable to save
> a file as EMF.
>
> ??? Error using ==> saveas at 156
> Unsupported format or extension: emf
>
> Is there a workaround or something I can install? I am
> using R2007a. I would like to avoid changing everything
to jpg.
>
> Thanks.
EMF output is only available on Windows. There may be
utilities for linux that convert postscript to EMF, although
I'm not aware of any offhand. The benefit of such a utility,
if it exists, is the possibility of keeping the output as a
vector file, rather than raster/bitmap.

Richard Quist
Software Developer
The MathWorks

Re: Saving figures to emf from linux

Daniel — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:02 -0400

"Richard Quist" <rquist_nospam@mathworks.com> wrote in
message <fshb2t$aqk$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Daniel " <dan@borellos.com> wrote in message
> <fsh53q$529$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I have numerous scripts that generate plots and then save
> > them as EMF files. They run beautifully on windows.
> >
> > I recently decided that I wanted to offload some of the
> > processing to a linux server. It however, is unable to save
> > a file as EMF.
> >
> > ??? Error using ==> saveas at 156
> > Unsupported format or extension: emf
> >
> > Is there a workaround or something I can install? I am
> > using R2007a. I would like to avoid changing everything
> to jpg.
> >
> > Thanks.
> EMF output is only available on Windows. There may be
> utilities for linux that convert postscript to EMF, although
> I'm not aware of any offhand. The benefit of such a utility,
> if it exists, is the possibility of keeping the output as a
> vector file, rather than raster/bitmap.
>
> Richard Quist
> Software Developer
> The MathWorks

Thanks for the response. I will get by using another format.