How to Print a GUI?

Hi guys,

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

Thanks

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

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.

[Olaleye Benjamen]

Hi sir

am actually working on the same programe byt i want to print my pwn GUI witg all tge result in it

[Jan]

@Olaleye Benjamen: You can do this with the provided code. Therefore I do not understand the purpose of your comment.

[Roberto]

Hi... I am struggling with the same problem.

So far I am able to save the GUI figure into a PNG file, but the result is weird.

The GUI does not handle the 'PaperPositionMode' or any of these commands.

you can try, but the result isn't pretty.

[File,Path] = uiputfile('*.png');
FileOUT  = [Path File];
print('-dpng','-r72',FileOUT)

[Roberto]

partial solution.... open the GUI using the guide command and just go to the properties editor and set the PaperPositionMode in auto.

That should do the trick.