EPS export issue: blank figure

Hi, I got a new laptop recently and I reinstalled Matlab on it. I am writing a latex file where I inserted .eps figures. Up to now, I have used .eps figures that I got thanks to Inkscape, and everything worked perfeclty. However when using .eps files I exported with Matlab, the figures are empty. I don't get error or warning messages, just an empty figure. So I opened my .eps files (the ones I got with matlab) with Inkscape, and it is just blank. Somebody knows why do I have that, and how to remedy this issue? (I have Ghostscript installed)

Sincerely

Answer 1

[Vect13]

Actually I ended up finding what was wrong. I was using the output profile Latex => PDF. I just switched to Latex => PS => PDF, and now my .eps Matlab files are displayed.

[Tony Nenov]

Hi, how did you change the output profile? Are you using Texmaker?

[Vect13]

Hi Tony,

No, I use TeXnicCenter

I could change the output profile from the drop-down menu (red rectangle on the image).

In Texmaker though, I don't know how to do that. I saw in this video Texmaker that in Options > Configure Texmaker , there are things to do that might help you out.

Answer 2

[Giuseppe Inghilterra]

Hi,

I usually export matlab figures in .svg format, then I modify them in inkscape and save it to .pdf. I add it in LaTex document and image does not lose quality.

I tried on my own with .eps images and I can't open them with Inkscape (Inkscape returns me an error).

[Vect13]

Hi Giuseppe, thank you for your reply. Your trick worked well, I saved my matlab plots as .svg files, I opened them with Inkscape, and I saved them as .eps file. This is kind of a digression but it works well. (I can open .eps files with Inkscape, the the corrupted matlab .eps documents trigger an error too)