MATLAB Publishing quality figures in MATLAB

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Creating publishing-quality figures in MATLAB can be time-consuming, especially when aiming for proper fonts, scales, and annotations. Users have found that MATLAB's support for LaTeX enhances the aesthetics of their plots significantly. Functions like hold, xlabel, ylabel, title, and legend are essential for improving figure quality, and the plottools command offers additional features. Despite these tools, many users still feel that achieving a polished look requires considerable effort and patience. Overall, while MATLAB provides useful functionalities, some users consider alternative software like ORIGIN for quicker results.
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Is there an easy way of making publishing quality figures in MATLAB? I use MATLAB for calculations and working plots, but to get a nice figure (I mean proper fonts, scales, some text, symbols, lines for different datasets) takes me so long time that I better use something like ORIGIN program for this. I guess there should be some templates...
 
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When I discovered that Matlab plots support LaTeX, my plots all suddenly were a bit nicer.

/theta_{k}^{2}

Here are a few functions that might help. Type "help <function name>" at the command line for more info

hold
xlabel
ylabel
title
legend

You can get much more by using >> plottools
 
p1ayaone1 said:
When I discovered that Matlab plots support LaTeX, my plots all suddenly were a bit nicer.

/theta_{k}^{2}
Thanks, good to know.

Here are a few functions that might help. Type "help <function name>" at the command line for more info

hold
xlabel
ylabel
title
legend

You can get much more by using >> plottools

Yes, this I use, but to make the figure nice I need quite some time...
 
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