How to include an image with original resolution in a Live Script?

I am creating an exercise for a course with a Live Script in Matlab 2016a.

I made some PNG drawings with free body diagrams. Unfortunately when they are inserted the Live Script, the image quality is dramatically decreased, making the text in the images very difficult to read. I tried also TIFF and JPEG with the same results.

Is there a way to include an image in a Live Script with the original quality and resolution?

Where can I suggest the addition of support for SVG or some format that support vector images?

Thank you.

[Saurabh Gupta]

Please share a simple example (with original image and live script) to demonstrate the use and the issue.

[Charles Refvem]

I am having a similar problem to what is mentioned in the original post using Matlab 2019b.

I have attached my original image (5584px x 1042px), the low quality image (1200px x 223px), my live script in .mlx format, and the .html formatted output.

In my opinion the image quality is unacceptable. Is there anyway to workaround this issue? It appears that every image is resized to a width of 1200px. Can I change that value somewhere?

[Daniel Alazard]

Hi,

I have the same probem and I saw that there is no answer from Matlworks...

Hope they could help up to solve this problem

Daniel

[Axel Jacobsen]

Hi!

This may be a bit late, but I found imshowing an imread worked at full resolution:

imshow(imread("qrd_xfer.png"))

[Nalini R]

Any update on this query on the resolution of the image inserted in live editor? I use 2023b version still i am facing issue with the image quality. Mathworks providing such great service why is this still not been resolved.

[Image Analyst]

I don't use live script so all I can suggest is to check out truesize or just use a regular script which will use regular, detached figure windows.

Answer 1

[Martin Knelleken]

Hi,

I'm very sorry for the delayed answer. I noticed this post only recently.

Regarding the quality loss of images: We are aware of that problem and we're aktively working on a solution. It's caused by a certain library we're using for loading images from disk. It has limits for the image size and the resize algorithm is poor.

Again, this affects only reading images from disk. It does not happen when you paste the image into the Live Script. Thus, if you have the chance to open the original image in another application (e.g. Paint on Windows, or Preview on Mac), you can copy it there and then paste in MATLAB. That should preserve the original solution.

Btw, MATLAB Online does not have that limitation. Just in case you're using it.

Regarding SVG support: We're working on that, too. Stay tuned.

Thank you for using the Live Editor and your feedback!

Kind regards

- Martin

[Carlo Monjaraz]

Thank you Martin for your answer. It is appreciated.

[Ricardo]

Thank you for the answer. And +1 on thew fix and more so for the svg support! Hopefully this comes with better support for exporting with transparency as well.

Answer 2

[Math Works]

so? still not fixed?

[Martin Knelleken]

Unfortunately not.

The fix needs some other changes which turned out to take longer than expected. It's still in progress.

So, sorry for the delay and inconveniences.

Kind regards

- Martin

[Alex Morgan]

In the meantime, I would use Python if you have the image files saved, it is fairly simple even if you don't know it

Answer 3

[Michael]

It seems like including .svg images inside live scripts is still not possible - any update on that?