MATLAB: How to Print a GUI

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Hi guys,
I have a GUI with inputs and a plot. I want to print this ideally to PDF. Is this possible?
Thanks

Best Answer

A - a GUI is a figure, so you can use print to save it as an image or as a PDF. For example, I would launch my GUI as
 h = myGui;
where h is the handle to the GUI. Then to print this to file, I would use
 print(h,'myGuiImageFilename','-dpdf');
or whichever format you wish. You may find that some experimentation is required to get the image of the GUI to appear as desired. Sometimes, it is just easier to do a (for example) Windows or Mac screen capture of the (running) GUI and use that captured image within your file.
If this occurs from within a pushbutton callback of the GUI, then there is no need for the h parameter. You could just use the GUI figure handle instead
 function pushbutton_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
 print(handles.figure1,'myGuiImageFilename','-dpdf');
or whatever the Tag property has been set to for your figure.
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