Desktop Tools and Development Environment

Printed Documentation

Printed manuals are provided for the major releases of some products and tools. The online documentation often has information not included with the printed manuals and is often more current. If you want to purchase printed documentation, see the online store at the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com.

You can print the current page displayed in the Help browser, or print a page or an entire book from the PDF version of the documentation.

Printing a Page from the Help Browser

To print the page currently shown in the Help browser, select File -> Print, or click the Print button in the display pane toolbar. The Print dialog box appears.

The Pages field in the Print dialog box shows the total number of pages to be printed and lets you specify the range of pages you want to print. When there is more than one page, it means that multiple physical pages are needed to print the single page displayed in the Help browser.

Complete the dialog box and press OK to print the page.

Printing the PDF Version of Documentation

If you need to print more than a few pages of documentation, or if you want the pages to appear as if they came from a printed book, print the PDF version of the documentation. PDF documentation is shown and printed using your PDF reader, usually Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF documentation reproduces the look and feel of the printed book, complete with fonts, graphics, formatting, and images. In the PDF document, use links from the table of contents, index, or within the document to go directly to the page of interest. Note that some documentation available from the Help browser is not available in PDF format.

Note    The Help browser accesses PDF documentation from the MathWorks Web site. Therefore, you need Internet access to view or print PDF documentation.

1. In the Help browser, click the Contents tab and select a product, for example, MATLAB.

1. The roadmap page opens for that product, providing links to key documentation for that product.

2. Near the end of the roadmap page, listed under Printing the Documentation Set, are links for printing the documentation. Select the link for the item you want to print.

1. MATLAB accesses the selected document from the MathWorks Web site. Your PDF reader opens, displaying the documentation.

   If you are using a UNIX platform and cannot open the PDF documentation, check the Help preferences. See PDF Reader--Specifying Its Location for more information.

3. To print the documentation, select Print from the File menu in your PDF reader.

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