Survey: Changes in Support for Printer Drivers and Graphics Formats in MATLAB

We are planning to remove a number of printer driver and graphics file export options in a future version of MATLAB. This page explains our plans and lets you provide feedback on the following:

How you use the print and saveas commands

How the proposed changes might impact your workflow and your use of our products

Rationale for Changing Supported Drivers and Formats

The MathWorks is planning to use existing operating system (OS) support for printer drivers, output devices, and graphics file formats. Because of this change, you will not be able to choose certain print devices and graphics formats when using the print –d and saveas commands in a future release of MATLAB.

You will still be able to use the affected printers with MATLAB if your OS provides the appropriate hardware drivers. However, you will not be able to use the print –d command to print directly to such devices from MATLAB.

For a complete list of printer drivers being removed, see the MATLAB print documentation.

Disabling the Warning Message

Continuing to use drivers and formats slated for removal will generate warning messages. To disable the warning messages, use the commands below.

For deprecated printer drivers:

warning('off', 'MATLAB:Print:Deprecate:PrinterFormat');

For deprecated graphics file formats:

warning('off', 'MATLAB:Print:Deprecate:GraphicFormat');

Note that once this functionality is removed, the warning will become an error.

Tell The MathWorks About Your Usage of These Output Formats

Understanding which printing devices and graphics file formats you depend on, and how you use them, will help us plan how we might enhance our product and continue to provide high quality support.

Please complete the survey below and tell us how you use these features. The survey consists of nine questions. It should take approximately five minutes to complete. We greatly appreciate your input.

How are you currently generating graphics files from MATLAB?

The graphics file formats we plan to remove in a future release are currently undocumented.

4. Which graphics file format(s) do you typically generate from MATLAB. (Select all that apply.)

	PKM
	PKMRAW
	TIFFLZW

5. What are your reasons for choosing an undocumented graphics format rather than a supported format? Specifically, what can you do using this format that you cannot do with one of the supported formats?

6. On which operating system, or systems, do you use MATLAB and the specific graphics file format(s) being removed?

Additional Information

7. Do you typically start MATLAB with either the -nodisplay or -noFigureWindows option?

Yes

Don't Know

8. Did you write the code that uses the print or saveas command and that throws this warning?

Yes

If no, please tell us how you obtained it.

9. Use the space below to provide additional comments or elaborate on any of your responses.

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Survey: Changes in Support for Printer Drivers and Graphics Formats in MATLAB

Rationale for Changing Supported Drivers and Formats

Disabling the Warning Message

Tell The MathWorks About Your Usage of These Output Formats

How are you currently printing from MATLAB?

1. Select the printer device(s) that you typically print to from MATLAB using the print –d command. (Select all that apply.)

Canon Printers

Epson and Compatible Printers

Fujitsu Printers

IBM Printers

HP Printers

2. On what operating system, or systems, do you use MATLAB and the specific print device(s)?

3. For non-Windows users only - Do you currently use Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) to print?