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Exporting a good quality of MATLAB figure into MS Word 2010

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Prabu Selvaraj

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Aug 10, 2011, 1:09:11 PM8/10/11
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Hi, I am trying to export the plotted MATLAB graph into MS word 2010. I tried by saving the figure into jpg,tif and meta and pasted into word document but the image is not looks realistic and the axis labels are looking like irregular. Is there any formal method to get good quality of image from MATLAB into the MS word document. Help me immediately if anyone knows about it.

Bruno Luong

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Aug 10, 2011, 1:19:25 PM8/10/11
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"Prabu Selvaraj" <vtprabu...@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message <j1udvn$o06$1...@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...

> Hi, I am trying to export the plotted MATLAB graph into MS word 2010. I tried by saving the figure into jpg,tif and meta and pasted into word document but the image is not looks realistic and the axis labels are looking like irregular. Is there any formal method to get good quality of image from MATLAB into the MS word document. Help me immediately if anyone knows about it.

The best in quality is the mots straight forward : In the figure window, Go to menu
Edit -> Copy Figure

Open your word document and Past the figure where you want.

Warning : Word can be become significantly slower when refresh the view of document having such vectorized graph.

Bruno

TideMan

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Aug 10, 2011, 4:20:31 PM8/10/11
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On Aug 11, 5:09 am, "Prabu Selvaraj" <vtprabu_sinc...@yahoo.co.in>
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> Hi, I am trying to export the plotted MATLAB graph into MS word 2010. I tried by saving the figure into jpg,tif and meta and pasted into word document but the image is not looks  realistic and the axis labels are looking like irregular. Is there any formal method to get good quality of image from MATLAB into the MS word document. Help me immediately if anyone knows about it.

You will find lots of references to this in this newsgroup.
There are many different ways to do it.

The method that works for me is:
plotfile='d:\MySub\MyPic';
print('-depsc','-tiff',plotfile)
This writes MyPic.eps with a preview that lets you see the plot in
ThumbsPlus or similar.

Then in Open Office Text or MS Word, use Insert/Picture to insert
MyPic.eps

pietro

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Aug 11, 2011, 7:44:11 AM8/11/11
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TideMan <mul...@gmail.com> wrote in message <c156780d-f1f2-4946...@28g2000pry.googlegroups.com>...

The best way is to save the picture in *.emf file, that is a vectorial format.

Pietro

TideMan

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Aug 11, 2011, 4:17:52 PM8/11/11
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On Aug 11, 11:44 pm, "pietro " <bracard...@email.it> wrote:
> TideMan <mul...@gmail.com> wrote in message <c156780d-f1f2-4946-8127-d38ae8dc9...@28g2000pry.googlegroups.com>...

And why is this the "best" way?

Li

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Aug 11, 2011, 6:47:10 PM8/11/11
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Viggo Wivestad

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:15:23 AM9/12/16
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TideMan <mul...@gmail.com> wrote in message <2971ee83-09e6-4421...@u28g2000prm.googlegroups.com>...
It is the "best" way because vector graphic is not made up by pixels, but "math" (yeah! :P ). The result is that when you export your document as a PDF, the reader can zoom in infinitely and the image will never be pixelated. If you zoom in on an image saved in pixel format, the result is dependent on the resolution on the image, and there will always be a limit to how much you can zoom in before it gets pixelated.
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