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From: "Daniel " <dan@borellos.com>
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Subject: Re: Saving figures to emf from linux
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:02 +0000 (UTC)
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"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.