How to: Copy/Print (sub)plots to clipboard and pdf

Hi

I would like to copy a (sub)plot to the clipboard and a pdf file

with and w/o the gui interface.

How can I do that?

thank you

[Jan]

What exactly is "the GUI interface"? Does it inlcude the window borders?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/2010/04/21/copying-a-figure-to-the-clipboard/

Answer 2

[Hello kity]

I allready found that one. But that is not really what I want. I have 3 subbplots and some edit/statit fields around it. Now it copys all of them at once then it is pretty much minimized when you copy paste it.

I d rather have the option to select the specific subpplot and edit/static fields on the figure.

Answer 3

[Ram]

Try this. While you are generating the subplot, create a uicontextmenu for each axes that allows a right mouse click and choose to copy. Then, write the callback to copy using "print -dmeta" command.

% Commands to create uicontextmenus

for i = 1:length(justAxes)

      hcmenu = uicontextmenu;
      item = uimenu(hcmenu,'Label','Copy','Callback', @copy_call});
      set(justAxes(i),'uicontextmenu',hcmenu);
  end

% Now the copy_call function has to create a figure with that plot copied on it. Then upe "print -dmeta" command.

function copy_call(varargin)

     currAxes = get(get(get(varargin{1},'parent'),'parent'),'currentAxes');
     newFig = figure('visible','off');
     newHandle = copyobj(currAxes,newFig);
     print(newFig,'-dmeta');
     delete(newFig);

% Right mouse click on individual plots and choose the "copy" option. The "print -dmeta" command puts the plot in the clipboard. Use the paste command on to MS Word or other files.

[AJ]

I had mixed luck with this solution. I had to do a few mods to get it to work well.

This is intended to copy an axis from a GUI figure, so this is a callback function for a pushbutton to copy the axis data to the clipboard.

% --- Executes on button press in PB_Copy_to_clipboard.
function PB_Copy_to_clipboard_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to PB_Copy_to_clipboard (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

hObject.String = 'Copying...'; % Let user know copy is proceding
hObject.BackgroundColor = 'y';
drawnow
newFig = figure('visible','off'); % Create new figure
%newFig.Position(3:4) = [1100 720]; % Make figure bigger
ax1 = subplot(1,1,1); % Create new axis (temporary, for sizing)
ax_new = copyobj(handles.axes1,newFig);
set(ax_new,'units','normalized','position',get(ax1,'position'));
delete(ax1);
print(newFig,'-dmeta'); % Copy to clipboard 
delete(newFig);
hObject.String = 'Copy to Clipboard'; % Restore original pushbutton text
hObject.BackgroundColor = 0.94*[1 1 1];