Obviously, I want to avoid raster images as intermediate step.
I've never tried this, but I think you'd have to first convert the EPS file to a PDF (using Ghostscript or something), and then use importPageIntoForm or importpage (depending on exactly what you're trying to do). You need a PostScript interpreter to handle EPS, because PostScript is a complete programming language, and PDF isn't.
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I have a file that is in AVL file format from a program called ArcGIS (formerly ArcView) that I need to convert to a mat file. It contains data I need to play back. Can anybody suggest a simple way to convert the file? I have done quite a bit of searching, and it seems the AVL is not a binary, aka it is a text format, which means I could write a program to convert it, but only if I also knew the corresponding matlab MAT file format. Moreover, this could take quite a while to do, and I need to file to be converted quickly so I can use the data.
I need to convert thousands of .doc files to HTML. These documents contain MathType equations, Word Drawings (vector drawings), and the drawings many times contain more equation objects themselves.
Through Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word I have managed to save .docs to filtered HTML and "unfiltered" HTML (this last mode has the advantage of generating several .wmz files). Sadly, the MathType SDK fails to convert every single equation in the wmz files that are generated in the process (the wmf examples that come with the SDK are converted to LaTeX just fine..). Summing up:
I need to know which wmf files are MathType equations and which are word drawings;
I need to be able to convert the wmf files that are MathType equations to LaTeX.
I need some PRETTY good wmf to svg converters to convert the drawings, because it is quite often that the results are not to our liking;
I need to have access to the mathtype equations contained in the word drawings.
All of this has to be automated, since there are thousands of files.
Anyone with some experience on this?
WMZ is gzipped WMF, so if the conversion of WMF to LaTeX works, then try unGzipping the WMZ file to WMF and then converting it to LaTeX.
This question was posted on Matlab Central (http://goo.gl/MkU8P) but hasn't gotten any answer. I thought someone here might have a lead.
I use publish() quite a bit to produce online class notes. It's working well but frankly, I find the PNG plots to be of awful quality. I've tried setting figureSnapMethod='antialiased' and that's a bit better but I mostly find the result fuzzy.
What would be awesome is to produce SVG plots. Is there any way to do that? I suppose it would have to involve plot2svg somehow (also from File Exchange) since SVG output seems to be only supported for Simulink models. Or perhaps someone has a better solution using some other high quality format.
before using publish you should set some options to change imageForamt. by default it is set to PNG format which is not good for reports, papers, etc. what you need is a vector graphic image, something like an eps or emf file formats. (in such case it does not matter how much you zoom in , it never becomes fuzzy or low resolution).
Any image format that your installed version of Microsoft Office can import, including 'png' , 'jpg', 'bmp',and 'tiff'. If the 'figureSnapMethod' is 'print',then you can also specify 'eps', 'epsc', 'eps2', 'ill', 'meta',and 'pdf'
for HTML output any format publishes successfully
for latex output any format publishes successfully
I suggest you to use eps, it is the best. and remember SVG is not supported in publish. ;)
you should add this part to your command:
'imageFormat','eps'
I'd like to create a PDF out of my matlab m-function. The PDF should contain some text information which I want to style a bit and one image (which is previously generated as figure). Is there any way? The only thing I found is publish to publish source-code. The only alternative I could think off was to programm the texts into the figure window and than export the whole figure to pdf. Perhaps there's a better way to do it?
Thanks!
I would recommend generating your figure with Matlab, outputting it to eps, then converting the figure to pdf using epstopdf. Then embed your figure in a latex document and generate a pdf with pdflatex.
I know this sounds like an incredibly roundabout way of doing it, but
This is the way I've come to do it after years of experience and it always gives me the best results
Every one of my colleagues does it this way for the same reason
The results will be completely reproducible
You're using Matlab to do what it's good at (making scientific figures) and latex to do what it's good at (formatting documents)
The Matlab code to make the eps of the figure would be like this (supposing your figure is figure 1):
print -depsc2 -f1 -loose my_fig.eps
You could pretty easily write a latex template that uses my_fig.pdf and then run everything from your Matlab using bangouts:
!epstopdf my_fig
!pdflatex mydoc.tex
If you're on Windows, you can connect to Word using 'actxserver', insert and style any text you like into a blank document, copy and paste MATLAB figures into the document, and then save it to PDF. You can do all of that from within MATLAB. The first time you do this it's a pain, as you need to learn quite a bit about the Word Object Model; but once you've done it a couple of times it's very simple and quick, and you can achieve very professional results. You can combine this with using the 'export_fig' that others have mentioned.
I am working on a project that requires reading intensity values of several images from a text file that has 3 lines of file header, followed by each image. Each image consists of 15 lines of header followed by the intensity values that are arranged in 48 rows, where each row has 144 tab-delimited pixel values.
I have already created a .mat file to read these into Matlab and create a structure array for each image. I'd like to use OpenCV to track features in the image sequence.
Would it make more sense to create a .cpp file that will read the text file or use OpenCV and Matlab mex files in order to accomplish my goal?
I'd recommend writing C++ code to read the file directly independent of Matlab. This way, you don't have to mess with row major vs. column major ordering and all that jazz. Also, are there specs for the image format? If it turns out to be a reasonably common format, you may be able to find an off-the-self reader/library for it.
If you want the visualization and/or other image processing capabilities of Matlab, then mex file might be a reasonable approach.