Printing and Exporting Figures with MATLAB

Windows 95 and 98 Limitation for Broken Line Styles

Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 do not support broken line styles for lines whose width is greater than 1 pixel. Unfortunately, most printers produce lines more than 1 pixel thick, so in most cases, Windows 95 and Windows 98 drivers produce solid lines, regardless of the setting of LineStyleOrder.

There are various ways you can work around this problem.

• Change the MATLAB default line width to 1 pixel wide, by adding this line to the [MATLAB Settings] section of your MATLAB.INI file:

ThinLineStyles=1

This will result in thin lines, but the lines will print with the specified styles.

• Set the figure's Renderer property to OpenGL:

set(gcf,'Renderer','OpenGL')

The printed output will match the displayed figure. See Setting the Rendering Method for more information about the OpenGL renderer.

• Use a PostScript or Ghostscript printer driver. These drivers bypass the Windows Print Manager.

Getting the Best Results with Black-and-White Printers

Font Support for Printing