Printing MATLAB Graphics (Using MATLAB Graphics)

Using MATLAB Graphics

Adobe Illustrator 88 (-dill)

MATLAB provides the capability to generate illustrations that can be viewed and modified by Adobe Illustrator 88 or any other application that supports a compatible file format. Regardless of where an illustration was initially created, the MATLAB output file can be further processed with Illustrator running on any platform.

By default these illustrations are always in color and appear in portrait orientation. The Illustrator group command is used to give the illustrations a hierarchy similar to that of the Handle Graphics or Simulink graphic represented.

Creating Adobe Illustrator 88 files

The syntax of the command is:

print -dill filename

If you do not provide a filename, MATLAB gives the file a default name based on the figure window used to create the file.

To view the output, open the saved file within Illustrator. It will have no template.

Limitations

The Illustrator driver has these limitations:

Interpolated patches and surfaces cannot be created. The color of each polygon will be determined by the average of the CData values for all of the polygon's vertices.
Images cannot be rendered.
No fonts are downloaded to the Illustrator file. Any fonts used must be available to Illustrator when the file is viewed.
The file must be opened in Illustrator before it can be printed.

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