MATLAB Release Notes

Graphics Features

MATLAB 6.5 adds the following graphics features and enhancements.

New Text Properties - Control Text Background

Text objects have the following new properties.

Property	Purpose
BackgroundColor	Color of text extent rectangle
EdgeColor	Color of the rectangle edge
LineStyle	Style of the rectangle edge line
LineWidth	Width of the rectangle edge line
Margin	Increase the size of the rectangle by adding a margin to the text extent

Colormap Editor - Modify Colormaps Interactively

The colormap editor is a tool that enables you to modify the colormap of the current figure. See the colormapeditor function description for more information and an example.

Redesigned Property Editor

The Handle Graphics Property Editor and associated help have been redesigned.

Selecting a Printer From the MATLAB Command Line

In earlier versions of MATLAB, you could select a nondefault printer for graphics from the MATLAB command line on UNIX systems only. In MATLAB 6.5, you can do this on Windows systems as well. Specify the printer using the -P switch in the print command.

For example, to print Figure No. 3 to a printer called Calliope, type

• print -f3 -PCalliope
  

If the printer name has spaces in it, put quotes around the -P option, as shown here.

• print -f3 '-Pmy local printer'
  

Using a Network Print Server

On Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP systems, you can print to a network print server using the form shown here for a printer named trinity.

• print -P\\PRINTERS\trinity
  

This form is not supported on Windows 98 or Windows ME. On these platforms, you can print to a network printer only if you install a network printer using the Add Printer dialogs. When installed in this manner, these network printers work without the use of the \\server\printer notation, as they look the same as local printers.

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