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"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