LaPrint

Potentially very useful, as this is an area in which the Mathworks' own solutions are woeful with no signs of improvement. However, with no updates since 2004 I'm not holding my breath for vital fixes to this utility.

For me, the main problems are:
- using texShop on a Mac, and the tags simply aren't being updated so are typeset in the finished document as x01, x02 etc (to be fair this might be a latex issue).
- axes scales (x10^p etc) are placed incorrectly
- legend sizes aren't handled

... and that's before trying anything challenging like having patch objects or 3D plots etc.

Some users may consider googling for psfragx and psfragx.m, which allow overlays of pictures and inclusion of graphics in a more flexible way within latex. Still reliant on Laprint though, so the bugs above won't go away.

try this out, very easy and works well !
title('$\hat{a}$','Interpreter','latex')

Great work! This script allowed me to perfectly markup all my figures, so they could be included nicely in my report. @Tor Aksel, I wrote a legend to latex converter to overcome the small box problem.

I was trying to specify a destination directory with the filename, for example,
laprint(1, './figure/a', 'options', 'factory', 'width', 7.5)

Two files will be generated in directory 'figure', namely, 'a.eps' and 'a.tex'

On the Windows machine, the '\includegraphics{}' (second line from bottom in 'a.tex') will points to the correct path of 'a.eps.'
However, on the Linux and Mac machine, the correct path won't be appended to the argument in '\includegraphics{}.'

Any suggestion?

Very valuable script. I can't understand why matworks did't include such script in their package.

GREAT WORK

Great Work!

I get the following error when I execute laprint and I have no idea what it could be! Can anyone please help?

??? Error: Missing MATLAB operator.

Error in ==> laprint at 1795
eval(cmd);

Error in ==> laprint at 415
eval(lapcmd)

In general this is a very useful tool. But the proramm do not place the powers on the y-axis (ypower) correctly. And that is quite laborious to change the files by hand.

perfect !!
This is exactly what I need. Thank you so much.

Love LateX...

I love this function, very happy to discover it at the start of writing my PhD thesis!!

An impressive and useful piece of work, indeed. After some head scratching, I found that the size of legends gets screwed up in MATLAB 7.4 if the figure is copied before doing the text replacements. To avoid this, use the 'figcopy', 'off' option from the command line or uncheck the "Copy figure and modify that copy" option in the gui. With that option set, the text in your original figure gets changed into the psfrag tags, but the legend size comes out correct.

Excellent program. I would like to be able to specify a default font size for all labels, etc. For example, add \footnotesize to all tick labels.

Thank you for writing this excellent function. I have found it to be extremely useful.

SUPERB TOOL! Only thing I am missing is the turning of axis lables in 3d plots. I also like to modify the distance of tick lables to the axis, because by default laprint sets them a little too far away from the axis (in my opinion). Nevertheless, greatly helpful! Thanks!

What about axis labels? I can't find an 'as on screen' option. This is important for converting EPS files to PDF for use with pdftex.

To add to my previous review. I discovered belatedly that the renderers -zbuffer and -opengl store binary data, only -painters stores vector data and therefore only the latter can be used with LaPrint. This is not a bug, and I apologize for not having noted this in my first review. If one requires -opengl rendering then one will need to overlay plots in LaTeX using I suppose the pstricks and graphicx packages.

Extremely useful

I am student and like to learn Matlab

Specifically, problems seem to arise when using different renderers.
I have problems when using zbuffer or opengl.

Anyone got any advise?

Beautiful piece of work, I wish that it was available for octave.

good

I tried to use it for importing my matlab 7.1.xx figures into latex. I referred to the manual and tried out different preferences, but still result not usable without considerable alterations that would cost too much time. Problem: labels and axes are not appropriately titled.

Fantastic file for dissertaions and reports.

It does not appear to work well with legends in Matlab 7.1.

GOOD & REAL work/job/etc.... u r the one... Thankx...

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Hi, very nice tool indeed!

as I use pdflatex, I've had to change a few lines and use a small trick which might be useful:

first, I change these lines in laprint.m, to uncomment the \documentclass and \begin{document} lines, I add a \thispagestyle{empty} command and I get rid of the \include{file}:

[...]
fprintf(fid, ' \\documentclass{article}\\usepackage{');
fprintf(fid,package);
if color
fprintf(fid,',color');
end
fprintf(fid, ',psfrag}\n');
fprintf(fid,[ ' \\begin{document}\n\\thispagestyle{empty}\n' ]);
[...]
In the end, I had the \end{document} command.
[...]
fprintf(fid,'\\end{psfrags}%%\n');
fprintf(fid,'%%\n');
fprintf(fid,[ '\\end{document}\n' ]);
[...]

This laprint.m modified file generates both .eps and .tex files, but the latter may now be interpreted by a simple 'latex' command. It generates a .dvi file with all psfrag replacements made, which can be converted in .pdf by eps2pdf command line tool. The following script does all the process for one file:

%--------script EpsPdf.sh-----------
latex unnamed.tex
dvips -E unnamed
epstool --copy --bbox unnamed.ps unnamed.eps
epstopdf unnamed.eps
%-----------------------------------

Verry Good tool. I love it.

But ...
it uses psfrag wich is not aviable for pdflatex
so i must use latex. I hope to find a good way of including matlab figures with pdflatex.

Impressive. I am using psfrag with my figures for a long time already, but was making adjustments by hand. For Matlab figures, this gives the automation I always dreamed of.

I really like this program. I've used it for every paper I've submitted, and now I'm using it for my dissertation. It makes figures very professional looking by providing font consistency throughout a document.

Very Very exellent!

Brilliant piece of work. Produces crisp graphics for inclusion in publications. Sometimes not very clever with resizing legends.

This is definately a useful utility for Matlab. I am going to use this all the time for my work!

Wonderful program. By far much more flexible than the LaTeX interpreter in Matlab 7+.

A really well put together program. I have struggled to make my matlab figures look decent with matlab, and Laprint makes them look great.

Well, I strongly recomend to update from version 2.03 (19.1.2000) to 3.15