Print Pushtool in gui doesn't work!

I have a GUI that has a figure containing an axes and some uicontrolls plus some toolbar pushbuttons including a print Pushbutton which is hooked up to the default callback function. when I have a ribbon in my axes it refuses to print the graphics (it still prints an empty figure), but when I have a graphics that was drawn by plot, the print button works. P.S. my axes 'visibility' property is turned off, which don't think has anything to do with the print malfunction.

any tip is appreciated

[Sean de Wolski]

Can you try turning on the axes visibility on and see if it prints?

[hana]

The invisibility of the axes is by design and I have to work around this. (turning on the visibility didn't help either) thanks

Answer 1

[Tom]

It could be the renderer. Try

get(handles.figure1,'Renderer')

for both types of plot and see if they're different. The reasons for this are beyond me, but a while ago I tried changing the renderer on a figure because the colorbar was being weird- it fixed the colorbar problem but when I went to print, a blank sheet came out.

Answer 2

[Jan]

If the figure property 'RendererMode' is 'auto', Matlab selects the "best" renderer for the existing objects: 'Painters' for 2D, 'OpenGL' or 'ZBuffer' for 3D, 'OpenGL' for 3D with a lot of data or transparencies.

If you specify, how you "print" the graphics, the influence of the renderer could be investigated. Do you call the print command, and if so, how? Do you print to paper and specify a 'paperposition' outside the printable area?

Answer 3

[hana]

Yes thanks Tom, that was the reason preventing the graphics from printing. but the other kind of renderer is too slow and choppy, which I solved with switching immediately before and after printing.