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35.2 Print Size: WYSIWYG
By default, the size of the printed figure does not depend on the size
of the figure on the screen. If you stretched the window so that the
figure looked like this on the screen, , the printed page

would still look like this: . This is because the figure is scaled

when printing to occupy a rectangular area whose size and position are
defined by the figure’s paperposition property. The factory default
value for this property is:
>> get(gcf,’paperunits’)
ans =
inches
>> get(gcf,’paperposition’)
ans =
0.25 2.5 8.0 6.0
The paperposition vector, like an axes position vector within a figure,
has the form [left bottom width height]. The left and bottom val-
ues are taken relative to the lower left-hand corner of the page. The figure
window’s border is not considered part of the figure for the purposes of
printing. To make matlab automatically calculate the printed figure’s
position so that it is the same size as the figure window on the screen
(excluding the window border), set the figure’s PaperPositionMode
property to auto:
set(gcf,’paperpositionmode’,’auto’)

Now the figure that looks like this on the screen will look

like this when printed . With the paperpositionmode set to

auto, you must make sure that the figure’s size on the screen is not too
big to fit on the printed page.

35.3 Including Figures in Other Applications

General Comments
The best quality printed figures are produced using PostScript print-
ers. To include a postscript file in another document, you should print
from matlab using one of the Encapsulated PostScript formats (colour,
level 1, or level 2). Use the -deps option when issuing a print command.

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