Exporting figures is freezing up my computer

Hello!

I have created some figures in Matlab and want to convert them to another format, say .jpg or .eps. I have a few plots which I used the 'area' command and have set transparencies of <1 on them. When I try and convert/export/save as or even print these figures to a file my entire computer freezes up! I have not the faintest idea why this is happening!

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you!

p.s. I am using the Ubuntu O.S.

[Laila]

update I: typing opengl software reduces the problem to that of a frozen Matlab and not of a frozen computer.

Answer 1

[Laila]

actually I managed to fix the problem. In case anyone is wondering .. it turns out that the driver for Nvidia was not activated, and neither was the fglrx driver installed. I activated the Nvidia driver and then ran sudo nvidia -xconfig.

Seems to have fixed the problem!

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Have you tried export_fig, as recommended in the FAQ: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_save_my_figure.2C_axes.2C_or_image.3F_I.27m_having_trouble_with_the_built_in_MATLAB_functions. ? It's the number 1 most downloaded MATLAB File Exchange submission.

[Laila]

Thank you! That is an excellent file! But unfortunatley does not solve my problem. Regardless of how I try to export these files, the computer freezes. By typing in Opengl software, I can reduce the problem to Matlab alone freezing.. but still, the main problem, that I cannot export all .fig files remains..