Export table from Live Script (formatting problem)

I create multi-column tables in LiveScript but when I export to *.pdf or *.doc files only the first column seems to be exported (see Exported_file.jpg). Is there some formatting command I am missing?

LiveScript code:

1. clear all
2. close all
3. clc
4. T = table(rand(5,5))

[Image Analyst]

Exactly what steps did you do to create the PDF output?

Answer 1

[Sandeep Mishra]

Hi Stu,

I ran the provided code in MATLAB R2024b and encountered the similar issue while generating the pdf using ‘Export to pdf’ button.

The table generated by the code has 5x1 dimension instead of 5x5 dimension and hence the pdf was not getting generated correctly.

You can refer to the following code snippet to generate a 5x5 table:

data = rand(5, 5); 
T = table(data(:, 1), data(:, 2), data(:, 3), data(:, 4), data(:, 5), ... 
    'VariableNames', {'Column1', 'Column2', 'Column3', 'Column4', 'Column5'})

For more information, refer to the following MathWorks Documentation to learn about ‘table’ function: https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024b/matlab/ref/table.html#btw1wrc-3

[Peter Perkins]

As Sandeep hints at, you likely wanted array2table(rand(5,5)), not table(rand(5,5)).

[Stu Pgmmr]

Thank you! array2table works well