saveas

Save figure to specific file format.

📝 Syntax

• saveas(fig, filename)

• saveas(fig, filename, formattype)

📥 Input argument

• fig - figure object.

• filename - character vector or scalar string: destination filename.

• formattype - character vector or scalar string: extension filename.

📄 Description

saveas save figure to specific file format.

supported formats:

Option	Format	File extension
svg	SVG (scalable vector graphics)	.svg
pdf	Full page Portable Document Format (PDF) color	.pdf
png	PNG 24-bit	.png
jpg	JPEG 24-bit	.jpg
gif	Graphics Interchange Format	.gif
tif	Tagged Image File Format	.tif

💡 Example

x = -2:0.25:2;
y = x;
[X,Y] = meshgrid(x);
F = X.*exp(-X.^2-Y.^2);
surf(X,Y,F);
saveas(gcf(), [tempdir, 'svg-file.svg']);

🔗 See also

gcf.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.0.0	initial version
1.13.0	tiff format added