MATLAB: Working with large Matlab figures in Word

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I would like to insert a scatterplot of data into a MS Word file. There are roughly 200 thousand points on the figure, so when I save the figure as an EMF the file is over 50MB in size. What is my best option for inserting figures like this in Word? I want to keep my Word doc to a manageable size. I have tried reducing my dpi but it does not help. Any tips or pointers would be much appreciated.

Best Answer

With that many points, it is probably advisable to use a bitmap format, rather than EMF. I would think that exporting the figure as a PNG-file with a reasonable high resolution (perhaps 200dpi) should give you acceptable quality:
print -dpng -r200 exported.pdng
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