Publish with no output to screen

Hi all.

I'm using publish to create a number of figures by a loop. When i do this the figures pop up on screen and I don't want that. I haven't been able to find out how to turn this off. Can someone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I don't know if this will work, but you could try

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisibility','off')

Any figure created after that (in the session) should, in theory, need to be explicitly set to Visibility on in order to display on the screen.

[Mads]

Thx. It does not seem to work for me though. I get:

>> set(0,'DefaultFigureVisibility','off')

??? Error using ==> set

Invalid property found.

Object Name : figure

Property Name : 'Visibility'.

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, that should have been

set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off')

[Mads]

Thank you, works great.

Answer 2

[Mads]

Hi again. It turns out that this options setting also means that publish does not create the pictures. Do you have another suggestion?

Thanks.

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, I do not know how publish works internally.

The circumstances under which the "print" command can work without a display are described in the documentation for "print". I do not know, though, if it is "print" that is used by publish.