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Printing Documentation

Printed documentation is provided with the major releases of some products and tools. The online documentation sometimes has information not included with the printed material and may be more current than the printed material. If you want to purchase printed documentation, see the online store at the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com.

You can print the current page displayed in the Help browser, or print a page or an entire book from the PDF version of the documentation.

Printing a Page from the Help Browser

To print the page currently shown in the Help browser, click the print button in the display pane toolbar. The Print dialog box appears.

The Pages field in the Print dialog box shows the total number of pages to be printed and lets you specify the range of pages you want to print. If there is more than one page in the range, it means that multiple physical pages are needed to print the single page displayed in the Help browser.

Complete the dialog box and press OK to print the page.

Printing the PDF Version of Documentation

If you need to print only a few pages and if the quality does not need to be equivalent to pages in a printed book, you can print directly from the MATLAB Help browser--see Printing a Page from the Help Browser.

If you need to print more than a few pages of documentation, or if you need the pages to appear as if they came from a printed book, print the PDF version of the documentation. PDF documentation is shown and printed using your PDF reader, usually Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF documentation reproduces the look and feel of the printed book, complete with fonts, graphics, formatting, and images. In the PDF document, use links from the table of contents, index, or within the document to go directly to the page of interest.

To print a PDF version of documentation, follow these steps:

  1. For Windows systems only, insert the PDF Documentation CD provided with MATLAB into your CD-ROM drive. PDF files are on the CD and are not installed on your system. (For UNIX systems, the PDF files are installed). If you have problems, check the Help preferences--see Documentation Location--Specifying the help Directory.
  2. In the Help browser, click the Contents tab and select the title (first entry) for a product, for example, MATLAB.
  1. The Roadmap page opens for that product, providing links to key documentation for that product.

  1. On the bottom of the Roadmap page, listed under Printing the Documentation, is a link for printing. Click that link.
  1. If there is only one manual for the product, your PDF reader opens, displaying the table of contents and first page of the manual.

    If there is more than one item you can print for the product, a page listing the choices appears. Select the item you want to print. Your PDF reader opens, displaying the documentation.

    If you have problems, check the Help preferences--see PDF Reader--Specifying Its Location.

  1. To print the documentation, select Print from the File menu in your PDF reader.

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