Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Surface Plots from Matlab

[internetmanden]

I have a problem with making a properly looking figure of a surface plot from Matlab. I save the figure as PDF (or EPS and use the epstopdf package) and then I use {figure} environment. However, when I compile it to a PDF document, the figure looks bad, as if there is too much vectorized graphics at once or something like that. If I save it as PNG it works fine, but PNG does not come out very nice when they are scaled. I use MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXstudio.

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thank you very much!

[Johannes_B]

Nobody is able to help you right now. What makes a figure look bad? Can you at least give the compiled PDF or a screenshot? Also good would be a compilable minimal working example. That means you might need to upload one (or maybe more) of your graphics to make everything comprehensible and reproducible.


Welcome to the board

[feuersaenger]

Hi,

if I am not mistaken, there are a couple of different ways to generate an eps export from matlab - and not all of them are good ways.

The preferred way would be to plot your surface as usual in matlab, then type "print -depsc <filename>" . I believe that this command accepts a sampling resolution as well (like -r600 or something like that).

The result should be a good input for converters to pdf.

You may also be interested in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/ ... atlab2tikz which has a different way of integrating graphics from matlab into TeX: it reimplements the graphics using pgfplots. The font quality, consistency, size, and general appearance is typically better, albeit at a higher runtime cost and limited feature scope (pgfplots cannot do all that matlab can). Details in the link above and in the pgfplots manual (http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/)