Print Toolbar using Saveas Figure

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Michael - 28 Jul 2008 19:22 GMT

I am trying to save a figure after each iteration of a for
loop, but the formatting is not preserved. When I save the
file as a .jpg, the font size is increase from the default
font size to around size 18 and the windows taskbar is not
printed. When I save the figure as a .bmp, the original
font size is preserved, but windows taskbar is also printed.
I do not want the windows taskbar printed because it shows
what other programs are running during the matlab execution.

I have tried to use set(figure(1),'defaultaxesfontsize',12),
but I still get an increase in font size when saving it as a
.jpg. How can I save a figure with all the text in the
figure set as size 12 and not have the windows taskbar
displayed?

~Michael

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Walter Roberson - 28 Jul 2008 19:28 GMT

>I am trying to save a figure after each iteration of a for
>loop, but the formatting is not preserved. When I save the
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> I do not want the windows taskbar printed because it shows
>what other programs are running during the matlab execution.

Does the windows taskbar overlap a portion of the screen
where the window should be? If so then perhaps when the
pixels are read out of the screen buffer, the taskbar pixels
are being read out. Solution: make the figure smaller so it
doesn't overlap the task bar, or move the task bar so it doesn't
overlap the portion of the screen that is being copied.

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Michael - 28 Jul 2008 22:07 GMT

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <g6l34a$4kn$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...

> >I am trying to save a figure after each iteration of a for
> >loop, but the formatting is not preserved. When I save the
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> doesn't overlap the task bar, or move the task bar so it doesn't
> overlap the portion of the screen that is being copied.

Walter,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm pretty sure that is what is
the problem. Because multiple users will eventually use
this program, each (presumably) with a different screen
resolution, I used

set(gcf,'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);

to maximize the figure window. Is there an easy way to set
the maximum size of the figure window to account for the
taskbar and exclude these pixels in the saveas/print command?

~Michael

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Michael - 01 Aug 2008 00:38 GMT

Okay, so I guess I should have played with the file formats
a little bit more. Instead of saving as a .bmp (which is a
bitmap anyways, and therefore pixelated), I saved it as a
.emf (which is a vector format). This resolved the toolbar
showing up issue and allows for non-pixelated scalable plots.

I used the following to maximize the window:
set(gcf,'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);

I used the following to save:
saveas(figure(1),'filename','emf')

Works quite well.

~Michael

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Print Toolbar using Saveas Figure