masdeseiscaracteres / fig2paper

Matlab/Octave script to generate properly sized TikZ figures for scientific papers

Fig2Paper

Fig2Paper is a Matlab(R)/Octave script that takes the current figure and converts it to a PDF file which is ready to be inserted in a LaTeX file. An standalone .tex with the TikZ code is also returned in case one needs to manually modify/compile it. This script is basically a wrapper of the Matlab2TikZ https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz script by Nico Schlömer.

Requirements:

• A LaTeX distribution including TikZ-related packages
• pdflatex added to the system path
• Matlab2TikZ added to the Matlab(R)/Octave path (if not found, it will downloaded automatically)

This is work in progress and new functionalities will be added sporadically.

Usage

Convert the current figure to a PDF file named fig-[timestamp].pdf

fig2paper

If you prefer to specify a name for the output use:

fig2paper('figure_name')

Desired width and height can be also specified (using LaTeX length specifiers):

fig2paper('figure_name','width','8cm','height','6cm')

By default, the returned figure has divine proportions with width equal to \textwidth