I have a list of .fig files in a directory.
How do I write a simple matlab function that converts all the .fig files to .jpg files automatically?
2 Answers
Matlab figs are just matrices which you have to load into Matlab to interpret and convert, so you can try something like this:
fig=openfig(FileName,'new','invisible'); saveas(fig,OutputFileName.jpg,'jpg') close(fig); The 'invisible' option does not open the fig in a plot, so it saves memory and time.
GameOfThrows' answer was useful in saving a single .fig file to .jpg
To loop through all the .fig files, this worked for me:
//obtain the files with .fig extension files = dir('*.fig'); //loop through the .fig files for i=1:length(files) //obtain the filename of the .fig file filename = files(i).name; //open the figure without plotting it fig = openfig(filename, 'new', 'invisible'); //save the figure as a jpg saveas(fig, 'example.jpg'); //close the figure so that the next could be opened without some java problem close; end 
