Print only UIPanel object to PDF

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Austin Burritt
Austin Burritt on 25 Jan 2022
Answered: Austin Burritt on 27 Jan 2022
I have an app that displays multiple figures, and I'd like for the user to be able to print off a page of these figures. exportapp() gets me close, but I'm hoping I can cut out all the extra widgets and buttons that are also on the app and print just the axes to a pdf. Unfortunately none of the print functions seem to interact with UIPanel objects, which is where all my graphs are located. Anyone know how to print just what is shown in a panel to a pdf? Or perhaps another way to group my UIAxes objects so that they print as they are shown in my app?
Thanks for the help as always.

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Austin Burritt
Austin Burritt on 27 Jan 2022
To any who stumble upon the same problem as I did, here was my solution using the getframe function and its rect argument:
pos = app.Panel.Position;
%Changing the height and width ensures that the position arguments are
% within the bounds of the app window, I had issues with the panel position
% showing as out of bounds when calling getframe(). There is probably a
% cleaner way to avoid this issue.
pos(3) = app.UIFigure.Position(3)-pos(1)-1;
pos(4) = min(app.UIFigure.Position(4)-pos(2)-1, pos(4));
printFig = figure(Visible="off");
appFrame = getframe(app.UIFigure, pos);
imshow(appFrame.cdata)
exportgraphics(printFig, filepath)

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