Why is my colorbar empty when I Edit->Copy Figure to a metafile, and paste into a Corel Draw file with MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)?

I have a figure with a colorbar. I go to the Figure window and navigate to Edit->Copy Options and select either the 'Metafile' or 'Preserve Information' radio buttons. Then I go to Edit->Copy Figure and paste into a Corel Draw file. The plot looks fine but the colorbar is an empty box.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

To import the figure to Corel Draw, first save it as an EMF file. Use the following steps:

1. Open the figure.

2. Save the figure as an emf-file:

saveas(gcf,'test','emf');

3. Import test.emf into the Corel Draw File.