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From: tristram.scott@ntlworld.com (Tristram Scott)
Subject: Re: Report Generator - Export Figures to PDF in Vector format
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Richard  <richard.germuska@nhs.net> wrote:
> UPDATE
> 
> Mathworks have confirmed that the Report Generator uses third-party
> software that cannot retain vector properties when exporting to PDF via
> Report Generator, despite apparently offering this functionality in the
> Report Generator GUI.
[snip]

> 
> If anyone has any thoughts on whether it is technically possible to
> create a compiled Matlab GUI that creates multi-page vector PDFs, using
> pure Matlab code I would be very grateful.

What about creating a LaTeX report instead, with the images going in as
eps?  You can then run PDFLaTeX over it, or LateX, dvips and psp2df.

Not quite a pure MATLAB solution, but then, technically, neither is the
report generator.

Personally, I am still awaiting a command line version of the report
generator, allowing creation of documents paragraph by paragraph through
function calls. It doesn't seem to be the toolbox that gets the most
attention from the developers.

-- 
Dr Tristram J. Scott               
Energy Consultant