Setting the Paper Orientation :: Printing and Exporting (Graphics)

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Setting the Paper Orientation

Paper orientation refers to how the paper is oriented with respect to the figure. The choices are Portrait (the default), Landscape, and Rotated.

You can change the orientation of the figure:

Using the Graphical User Interface

Using MATLAB Commands

The figure below shows the same figure printed using the three different orientations.

Note The rotated orientation is not supported by all printers. When the printer does not support it, landscape is used.

Using the Graphical User Interface

Select Page Setup from the figure window's File menu and select the Paper tab. (See Using the Graphical User Interface).
Select the appropriate option button under Orientation.
Click OK.

Using MATLAB Commands

Use the PaperOrientation figure property or the orient function. Use the orient function if you always want your figure centered on the paper.

The following example sets the orientation to landscape:

set(gcf, 'PaperOrientation', 'landscape');

Centering the Figure. If you set the PaperOrientation property from portrait to either of the other two orientation schemes, you might find that what was previously a centered image is now positioned near the paper's edge. You can either adjust the position (use the PaperPosition property), or you can use the orient function, which always centers the figure on the paper.

The orient function takes the same argument names as PaperOrientation. For example,

```
orient rotated; 
```

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