MATLAB: How to plot without rendering the figure window and also save the figure to disk in MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)

Question

I would like to create plots in the background and save them to disk without having them to render at runtime.

Answer 1

Use the following code to create plots in the background and save them to disk (ex: JPEG Format)

h =  figure('Visible','Off');  % Creating a figure and not displaying it
ax = axes;   % Create an Axes;
plt = plot(ax,1:10,1:10,'r');  % Plot an arbitrary line in the axes 
set(h,'CurrentAxes',ax);       % Set  current Axes of figure  to 'ax'
print(h,'-djpeg','fname.jpeg')% Print the plot to file 'fname.jpeg'