Graphics

Quick Start

This section provides step by step instructions for common printing and exporting tasks. Each printing example tells you how to perform the task from the print menus and from the command line. Some tasks can only be performed from the command line.

List of Examples

Printing to a Printer

Print a figure directly to a printer:

• Using the defaults
• At screen size
• Locking the ticks and limits of the axes
• Setting the paper size
• Setting the size of and centering a figure
• To a nondefault printer
• Using Ghostscript

Printing to a File

• Printing a figure to a file. You can later print this file to a printer.
• Appending a figure to an existing PostScript file

Exporting

Export a figure in a graphics-format file that you can later import into an application:

• Using a specific graphics format
• In EPS color format with a TIFF preview
• To the clipboard (Windows only)

Dialog Box Overview

If you want to print or export a figure using the figure menus, this diagram illustrates the relationships between the dialog boxes you use most often.

Basic Printing and Exporting

Printing to a Printer Using the Defaults