http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/236796 Feed for thread: figure viewer en-us &copy;1994-2012 by MathWorks, Inc. webmaster@mathworks.com MATLAB Central Newsreader http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.mathworks.com/images/membrane_icon.gif Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:18:02 -0400 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/236796#602970 Dave Brackett I have many Matlab figures in a folder and want to be able to view a preview/thumbnail of them to identify the one I want. Currently I have to open each one separately in Matlab which is laborious. any ideas of how to do this in Matlab or if there is an external image viewer that can read .fig files? thanks. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:57:01 -0400 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/236796#602987 nor ki "Dave Brackett" &lt;davebrackett@hotmail.com&gt; wrote in message &lt;gbsqsa$21n$1@fred.mathworks.com&gt;...<br> &gt; I have many Matlab figures in a folder and want to be able to view a preview/thumbnail of them to identify the one I want. Currently I have to open each one separately in Matlab which is laborious. any ideas of how to do this in Matlab or if there is an external image viewer that can read .fig files? thanks.<br> <br> use the dir command to get the names of all fig files<br> <br> then loop over them, load the files with the open command<br> <br> hth <br> kinor