Saving a table as PDF, - how can I rotate it 90 degrees

Hello, I want to save a big table() which has like 20 columns. Therefore it would be nice to rotate the PDF paper 90 degrees.

When I save I use this

saveas(gcf,'summary','pdf')

and Matlab give me a size warning. Is there any way to rotate it?

[Adam Danz]

Are you saving a table, a figure, or a figure that contains a table?

Does the table exist as a variable?

[Martin]

Hi, thanks for turning back even though I was a bit unclear...

Yes the table exist as a variable, but I plot it inside a figure. When the figure "pops up" I am saving it as PDF

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

If the table is saved as a variable, rather than saving a figure that shows the table, save the table itself to a text file. You can do that using writetable().

There are several benefits to saving the table to a text file rather than to a figure. The text file is readable if you ever need to read the table back into matlab. A figure will pixelate the text since the text is converted to an image.

If you'd rather save the figure to pdf, to rotate it, use orient().

[Martin]

I like the idea with the txt file. However, I need to present it and it has to be easy to look at. I am not sure how the orient() would rotate it 90 degrees?

[Adam Danz]

The figure contains a PaperOrientation property and a PaperSize property that sets the orientation and size of the figure when you save it.

For example,

fh = figure(); 
fh.PaperOrientation  % = [11, 8.5] (or whatever your standard is)
fh.PaperSize         % = 'portrait'

Now we'll flip the orientation

orient(fh,'landscape')
fh.PaperOrientation  % = [8.5, 11] 
fh.PaperSize         % = 'landscape'

% now save it
saveas(gcf,'summary','pdf')

[Martin]

Nice one there Adam! Thanks a lot buddy. Works like a charm!

[Adam Danz]

Glad I could help!