Copy figure - bad quality
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Hi all,
I have some problem with the quality of copied figure. If I plot something and then I chose edit-copy figure, no problems, I can paste them in word and the quality is good. BUT if I do some modifications on the figure, for example I add some text or shapes, then if I do copy figure, the quality of the pasted image in word is lower.. For example it's impossible to read well the axis label.. You have any idea of the solution for this problem?
Thank you
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Vinh Ho
on 13 May 2019
Edited: Vinh Ho
on 13 May 2019
Go to copy options and choose "Metafile" for clipboard format. The resolution is pefect, alghouth it said "may loose information" but i did not have that problem yet.
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Vincent Masabiar masabair
on 10 Feb 2024
Thanks..........choosing "Metafile" for clipboard format worked for me!
Malcolm Lidierth
on 22 Mar 2012
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Image Analyst
on 22 Mar 2012
Someone else just asked about saving and I referred him to the FAQ: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_save_my_figure.2C_axes.2C_or_image.3F_I.27m_having_trouble_with_the_built_in_MATLAB_functions. (Make sure the final dot is included in the URL). The FAQ also which mentions export_fig(), which is the consistently the most downloaded File Exchange submission. I guess that's why questions on saving figures are the MOST commonly asked question - we get 1 to 3 a day or so.
Richard
on 22 Mar 2012
try saving the figure from matlab as a .jpg file by typing
ff =(C:\My Documents);
fnout = [ff, '\FigureName', num2str(1,'%.2d'), '.jpg'];
print('-djpeg','-r150',fnout);
This will then save the figure in my documents. Then in word go to inser--> picture.
If you want really high quality figures, you should save your figures as .eps files, but I dont think that word accepts these.
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Malcolm Lidierth
on 22 Mar 2012
This will not improve the image like export_fig but it does reproduce what's on screen -so if if you do not see grotty graphics on screen this may help.
It calls
this=MUtil.getFigureHWLWContainer(fh);
which is defined in Project Waterloo http://sourceforge.net/projects/waterloo/, and returns a reference to the MATLAB heavyweight/lightweight container but you could get that in other ways e.g. with Yair Altman's findjobj.
Dependent jars are part of the standard MATLAB distribution and are on the static javaclasspath.
MATLAB seem to build graphics in an offscreen buffer then paste a bitmap into the Java AWT Canvas. Here, that is replaced with an Apache Batik SVGCanvas. The MALAB graphics will be embedded as a bitmap in the file.
function SaveAsSVG(fh, str)
% SaveAsSVG saves a MATLAB figure to an SVG file
% Example:
% SaveAsSVG(figurehandle, filename)
% where filename is the fully qualified name of the file to write.
%----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Part of Project Waterloo and the sigTOOL Project at King's College
% London.
% Author: Malcolm Lidierth 03/11
% Copyright © The Author & King's College London 2011-
% Email: sigtool (at) kcl.ac.uk
% ---------------------------------------------------------------------
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.apache.batik.dom.GenericDOMImplementation;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGeneratorContext;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGraphics2D;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGraphics2DIOException;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
this=MUtil.getFigureHWLWContainer(fh);
if nargin<2 || isempty(str)
str='untitled.svg';
end
[folder filename ext]=fileparts(str);
if isempty(ext);ext='.svg';end
if isempty(folder);folder=pwd();end
str=[fullfile(folder, filename), ext];
thisFile = File(str);
OutputStream = [];
try
OutputStream =FileOutputStream(thisFile);
catch ex
end
domImpl = GenericDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
svgNS = 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg';
document = domImpl.createDocument(svgNS, 'svg', []);
svgGenerator = SVGGraphics2D(document);
svgGenerator.scale(1,1);
this.paint(svgGenerator);
try
out = OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream, 'UTF-8');
catch ex
end
try
svgGenerator.stream(out, true);
catch ex
end
end
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John Petersen
on 27 Jul 2012
Save it as a .emf or .png file. These retain image quality for graphs and plots with lines.
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