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Is it possible save the Compose plot result into pdf file?  (Compose Ver. 2017.3)

 - Save the plots into a PDF

 

manoj kandukuri

we don’t support creating of PDF and PPTX from COMPOSE OML in 2017.3, these features are coming up in next releases. We can leverage COMPOSE – Python (2way bridge) to accomplish this task.

below are the steps with example: 

 

1. Install “fpdf” external library package of python. (see attached install_fpdf.png)
2. Save the figures in OML (attached OML file)

                         for i =1:10

                         f=figure(i);

                        plot(rand(1,100));

                        saveas(f, ['demo',num2str(i),'.png']);

                         end

                         outfile = 'mypdf.pdf';

 

 

3. Export the pdf output file name to Python and evaluate the pythonfile (attached 'python_pdf.py')

                  exporttopython('outfile','outfile');

                  evalpythonfile('python_pdf.py'); % comments are added in the file for better understanding.

 

Hope this helps.

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