Matlab gets stuck in publish function

I'm trying to use the Matlab publish command to make my code into a pdf, but it gets stuck in an infinite loop while attempting to publish where I have to use control-c to get out. Here is my code and the output in the command window after I manually exit from the codes is below.

clc; clear; close all;
N = 50; %mols
Vo = 10;% L initial volume
ya = 0.5; %vapor fraction
delta = 2;
epsilon = ya*delta;
Nao = N*ya;
k = 0.45; 
t = 60; %time
Cao=Nao/Vo;
Xa = 2/(Vo/(Nao*(k*t+1/Cao))+1)-1;
XA = (Cao*k*Nao*t-Cao*Vo+Nao)/(Cao*k*Nao*t+Cao*epsilon+Nao);
fprintf('The conversion for isobarically condition %.6f \n',Xa)

Constant Voume

Xa2 = 1-(k*t*Cao)^-1;
fprintf('The conversion for isochoric condition %.3f \n',Xa2)

%%Concentration Figure
 tc = linspace(1,60);
Xac = 2./(Vo./(Nao.*(k.*tc+1./Cao))+1)-1;
Xac2 = 1-(k.*tc.*Cao).^-1;
figure(1);
plot(tc,Xac,tc,Xac2,'LineWidth', 2)
xlabel('Time (s)'); ylabel('Conversion X');
title('Conversion Vs Time of Reactors');
legend('Isobaric','Isochoric','Location','Best'); axis tight; grid on;
set( gca, 'FontSize', 16 )
saveas(figure(1),'Problem3Conversion.png')

publish('Hw3_problem3.m')

end

The command window displays this after forcing to exit from running

Operation terminated by user during alternatePrintPath

In print (line 82)
pj = alternatePrintPath(pj);

In saveas (line 181)
        print( h, name, ['-d' dev{i}] )

In Hw3_problem3 (line 37)
saveas(figure(1),'Problem3Conversion.png')

In evalmxdom>instrumentAndRun (line 109)
text = evalc(evalstr);

In evalmxdom (line 21)
[data,text,laste] = instrumentAndRun(file,cellBoundaries,imageDir,imagePrefix,options);

In publish

In Hw3_problem3 (line 39)
publish('Hw3_problem3.m')

In evalmxdom>instrumentAndRun (line 109)
text = evalc(evalstr);

In evalmxdom (line 21)
[data,text,laste] = instrumentAndRun(file,cellBoundaries,imageDir,imagePrefix,options);

In publish

In Hw3_problem3 (line 39)
publish('Hw3_problem3.m')

Answer 1

[Jeremy Thomas]

It looks like you're calling publish inside the file you're trying to publish. Remove publish from the script and call publish on the script from the matlab command line.

Answer 2

[Chetna Jain]

Hi Kelton ,

I have informed the development team about this issue. They are looking into it.

Meanwhile , You can use the "publish" method(line 39, as per what I see in above post) outside the "Hw3_problem3" file i.e from MATLAB prompt after removing it from file.