Converting from fig to jpg for mlreportgen.ppt.Picture

I have figures I need to put in a powerpoint. To add a picture to a ppt, I need it to be of class mlreportgen.ppt.Picture. The only way I've found to create an object of this class is to call mlreportgen.ppt.Picture('Path here'); The problem is that this requires it already be saved somewhere. It it too time consuming to take a figure then use saveas() to save as a .jpg, then use mlreportgen.ppt.Picture('Path here') to load it. Why should I save to disk, then load from disk, then delete the file? Surely there is some way to directly create a Picture object from a figure?

Answer 1

[Arka]

Hi,

As per the documentation for mlreportgen.ppt.Picture, the only input argument it accepts is a picturePath.

To not consume unnecessary disk space, you can try saving an image to the disk, creating the corresponding Picture object, and then programmatically deleting the image.

To learn more about mlreportgen.ppt.Picture and the delete function, please go through the MathWorks documentation links below:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.ppt.picture-class.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/delete.html