MATLAB: How to use the PUBLISH function to create a PDF document in MATLAB 7.0 (R14)

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I want to create a PDF document instead of HTML from my file. Is there a way to do this?

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As of MATLAB 7.0 (R14), you can create a PDF document by using the PUBLISH function to convert your MATLAB file to LaTeX first before converting to the PDF format. You will need proper TeX tools first. Two of the TeX tools we have used are MiKTeX and GhostScript, but other TeX tools should work as well.

To install either of these products, you can go to their respective websites:

https://miktex.org/

AND

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Next, use the following code to convert your file to LaTeX. In this example, we choose myfile.m to be the name of your file.

publish myfile latex

You can then create the following MATLAB function file as a wrapper to quickly convert the LaTeX file to PDF file format. Please make sure that LATEX.EXE and DVIPDFM.EXE are in your system path.

function pdf(file)
location = which(file);
d = fullfile(fileparts(which(file)),'html');
cmd = ['cd ' d ' && latex ' file '.tex && dvipdfm ' file ' && ' file '.pdf'];
system(cmd);

Then, the following line will do this conversion:

pdf myfile

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When using the MATLAB "publish" function or the Publish icon on the PUBLISH Toolstrip, you can automatically publish your code for sharing. By default, the output format is HTML, but you can select other formats, such as LaTeX or PDF.

LaTeX offers a convenient way to create tables. LaTeX code can be inserted in your MATLAB file by adding LaTeX markups around it.

For instance, the following code creates a table using the LaTeX syntax and surrounds it with LaTeX markups:

%% LaTeX Markup Example

% This is a table:

% <latex>

% \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline

% $n$ & $n!$ \\ \hline

% 1 & 1 \\

% 2 & 2 \\

% 3 & 6 \\ \hline

% \end{tabular}

% </latex>

However, the code between the markups is only published when the output format specified for "publish" is explicitly set to LaTeX. When trying to publish this code to a PDF file, the code between the markups will be ignored.To generate a PDF file where the table appears, you can use LaTeX markups as above and publish your MATLAB code to LaTeX. This will generate a LaTeX file that can be readily compiled to a PDF file with a LaTeX compiler.

Another possibility is to use a MATLAB "uitable" object on a figure as follows:

data = {1, 1 ;

2, 2 ;

3, 6};

columnName = {'n', 'n!'};

fh = figure;

t = uitable('Units','normalized','Position',...

[0 0 1 1], 'Data', data,...

'ColumnName', columnName,...

'RowName',[]);

figPos = get(fh,'Position');

tableExtent = get(t,'Extent');

set(fh,'Position',[figPos(1:2), figPos(3:4).*tableExtent(3:4)]);

When publishing to a PDF file, MATLAB will include the figure on the generated PDF file. However, the code that generates the figure will also appear in the PDF. To prevent the code from appearing, you can save it to a separate MATLAB script with an appropriate name (for instance Factorial_Table.m) and call this script in the MATLAB script that you wish to publish. In the resulting PDF file, you will see the single command that calls your MATLAB script and the table generated.

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I don't know an easy way with Matlab, but you can trivially solve this with pdfLaTeX. You can even build this file with Matlab.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-]{name_of_pdf_file1.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=-]{name_of_pdf_file2.pdf}
\end{document}

(the pages=- switch means that it will include all pages, not just the first)

Save this as a .tex file, install MikTeX (or any other package manager) and run pdflatex your_file_name.tex in your command prompt (or with system from Matlab)

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