Save all the plots

Each time I run my code it produces 100 figures. So, I have to waste my time and save each one of them. Is there a command that can do that work for me by saving all the figures at once?

[Hira]

m=1;

title("S31 Plot Measurement Number ("+m+")")

xlabel('Delay')

ylabel('Mag(S31)')

saveas(gcf,"S31_plot_"+name+"_Measurement_No_"+m+".fig")

close(gcf)

m=m+1;

Answer 1

[Jan]

No, there is no such command. But it is easy to write one:

FolderName = tempdir;   % Your destination folder
FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');
for iFig = 1:length(FigList)
  FigHandle = FigList(iFig);
  FigName   = get(FigHandle, 'Name');
  savefig(FigHandle, fullfile(FolderName, FigName, '.fig'));
end

Adjust the FigName to your needs.

[Konstantinos]

I used this code and I get this: "Undefined function 'savefig' for input arguments of type 'double'." I have matlab 2013b edition, if it matters. can you help me ?

[John Sunwoo]

I think the code needs 'brackets'.. for fullfile(). See below

FolderName = tempdir;   % Your destination folder
FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');
for iFig = 1:length(FigList)
  FigHandle = FigList(iFig);
  FigName   = get(FigHandle, 'Name');
  savefig(FigHandle, fullfile(FolderName, [FigName, '.fig']));    %<---- 'Brackets'
end

[Mango Wang]

Just to complement, there is no need to use for loop to save them one by one.

savefig(FigList,filename) could save all the handles together in one file.

[Lars Abrahamsson]

I noticed one "problem" when saving all figures into one file.

When loading them back with "openfig" the numbers/order of the figures becomes revered.

Why is that? Can anything be done to counteract that?

[Brandon Laflen]

If they load backwards, I'm guessing findobj is LIFO. Maybe try

savefig(FigList(end:-1:1),filename)

instead?

Answer 2

[Luke Shaw]

Missed a make current step: set(0, 'CurrentFigure', figureHandle)

FolderName = tempdir;   % Your destination folder
FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');
for iFig = 1:length(FigList)
  FigHandle = FigList(iFig);
  FigName   = num2str(get(FigHandle, 'Number'));
  set(0, 'CurrentFigure', FigHandle);
  savefig(fullfile(FolderName, [FigName '.fig']));
end

[Tanziha Mahjabin]

Hi,

i have already saved figures in a folder. how can i make a gif in matlab combining all of them?

[Ali Awada]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the code works perfectly.

I have a question:

how can i save the figure by the title i have given?

Your code saves them as "1.fig" where 1 corresponds to figure(1) in the code.

[manvir kaur]

i have same issue, this code works perfectly but i want to save figures in png format. So how to do that. Thanks

[Nabil Mederbel]

Hi guys,

I tried to save figures with '.eps' format ...didnt work.

any idea ? thx

[José Ángel Sevillano Caraballo]

This worked for '.png' format, it should work for whatever format you want.

FolderName = tempdir;   % Your destination folder
FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');
for iFig = 1:length(FigList)
  FigHandle = FigList(iFig);
  FigName   = num2str(get(FigHandle, 'Number'));
  set(0, 'CurrentFigure', FigHandle);
  saveas(FigHandle,fullfile(FolderName, [FigName '.png'])); %Specify format for the figure
end

Answer 3

[Tanveer]

FolderName = 'xx'; % Your destination folder

FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');

for iFig = 1:length(FigList)

FigHandle = FigList(iFig);

FigName = ['Fig' num2str(iFig)];

savefig(FigHandle, fullfile(FolderName, [FigName '.fig']));

saveas(FigHandle, fullfile(FolderName, [FigName '.png']));

% saveas(FigHandle,filename,formattype)

end

Answer 4

[Mehri Mehrnia]

Based on the answers, it means there is no 1 line of code which can save all open plots?

[Hira]

m=1;

title("S31 Plot Measurement Number ("+m+")")

xlabel('Delay')

ylabel('Mag(S31)')

saveas(gcf,"S31_plot_"+name+"_Measurement_No_"+m+".fig")

close(gcf)

m=m+1;