PDF export to edit in inkscape?

Hi everyone

Very commonly, I plot data and edit those plots with inkscape. I made quite good experience with saving plots as pdf and importing them into inkscape. With this, I can chose all the small parts of the plot separately and thus change everything (e.g., font size, thickness etc) in inkscape. However, since today, this is not working anymore. Importing Matlab plot pdfs into inkscape, I cannot edit them anymore. The problem is within the pdf because looking at those PDF files in a pdf reader, I could always zoom all the way in and the resolution stayed high. Now, they are pixelated and have quite a low resolution. I use 2013b.

Does anyone know what to do?

[Johannes Fischer]

I use Yair Altmans export_fig for exactly the same purpose.

Keep in mind, that you can also change the fontsize within Matlab. This might be the wiser choice when preparing reproducible figures. But that really depends on your application.

[Sarah Buehnke]

Somehow it didn't work but I found that, if I use printf and change renderer, it works

Answer 1

[Martin Jendryka]

print('-painters', '-dpdf', 'PlotName') 

directly saves your figures the desired way.

the painters option is essential for vector graphics, such as pdf.

Check also https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/print.html?searchHighlight=rendering%20file&s_tid=doc_srchtitle#d123e1050108 for more information