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Printing Documentation

You can print the current page displayed in the Help browser, or can print a page to an entire book from the PDF version of the documentation. If you wish to purchase printed documentation, see the online store at the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com.

Printing a Page from the Help Browser

To print the page currently shown in the Help browser, select the print button from the display pane toolbar, or select Print from the File menu. The Print dialog box appears. Complete the dialog box and press OK to print the page.

Printing the PDF Version of Documentation

If you need to print only a few pages and if the quality does not need to be equivalent to pages in a printed book, you can print directly from the MATLAB Help browser - see Printing Pages.

If you need to print more than a few pages of documentation, or if you need the pages to appear as if they came from a printed book, print the PDF version of the documentation. PDF documentation is shown and printed using your PDF reader, Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF documentation reproduces the look and feel of the printed book, complete with fonts, graphics, formatting, and images. In the PDF document, use links from the table of contents, index, or within the document to go directly to the page of interest.

To print a PDF version of documentation:

  1. For Windows systems only, insert the documentation CD provided with MATLAB into your CD-ROM drive. PDF files are on the CD and are not installed on your system. (For UNIX systems, the PDF files are installed).If you have problems, check the Help preferences - see Documentation Location - Specifying the help Directory.
  2. In the Help browser, go to the Contents tab and select the title (first entry) for a product.

    The Roadmap page opens for that product, providing links to key documentation for that product.

  1. On the bottom of the Roadmap page, listed under Printing the Documentation, is a link for printing. Click that link.

    If there is only one manual for the product, Acrobat Reader opens, displaying the table of contents and first page of the manual.

    If there is more than one item you can print for the product, a page listing the choices appears. Select the item you want to print. Acrobat Reader opens, displaying the documentation.

    If you have problems, check the Help preferences - see PDF Reader - Specifying Its Location.

  1. To print the documentation, select Print from the File menu in Acrobat.

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