mlreportgen.report.Axes class

Package: mlreportgen.report

Axes reporter

Since R2021b

Description

Use objects of the mlreportgen.report.Axes class to report on axes found in a MATLAB^® figure.

The mlreportgen.report.Axes class is a handle class.

Class Attributes

HandleCompatible

true

For information on class attributes, see Class Attributes.

Creation

Description

axes = mlreportgen.report.Axes() creates an Axes object with default property values. You must specify the axes handle to report by setting the Source property. Use other properties to specify report options.

Note

The figure containing the axes must remain open until you add the axes reporter to a report.

axes = mlreportgen.report.Axes(source) creates a reporter that adds the axes specified by source and sets the Source property to source.

axes = mlreportgen.report.Axes(Name=Value) sets properties by using name-value arguments. Specify multiple name-value arguments in any order.

Properties

Snapshot — Axes image properties

mlreportgen.report.FormalImage object

Properties for the axes image, specified as an mlreportgen.report.FormalImage object. Use the properties of the FormalImage object to specify the size of a snapshot if you cannot use Scaling, Height and Width properties without cropping the image.

Note

The axes reporter initializes the Snapshot property. Do not reset this property.

Source — Axes image source

axes handle

Axes image source, specified as an axes handle.

SnapshotFormat — Snapshot image format

'svg' (default) | 'bmp' | 'jpg' | 'png' | 'emf' | 'tif' | 'pdf'

Snapshot image format, specified as a character vector or string scalar. Supported formats are:

• 'svg' — Scalable Vector Graphics.

• 'bmp' — Bitmap image.

• 'jpg' — JPEG image.

• 'png' — PNG image.

• 'emf' — Enhanced metafile. This format is supported only in DOCX output on Windows^® platforms.

• 'tif' — Tag Image File format. This format is not supported in HTML reports.

• 'pdf' — PDF image. This format is supported only in PDF reports.

See Compatibility Considerations.

Scaling — Scaling options for axes image

'auto' (default) | 'custom' | 'none'

Scaling options for the axes image, specified as 'auto', 'custom', or 'none'.

• 'auto' — For PDF or Word reports, this setting scales the axes image to fit the current page layout while maintaining its aspect ratio. First, the axes image scales to the page width. If the image height exceeds the page height, the image scales down again. This additional scaling ensures that the image fits the current page with an extra one inch spacing. This setting does not apply to HTML reports.

• 'custom' — This setting scales the axes image based on the values of the Height and Width properties.

• 'none' — The image is not scaled.

Note

The 'auto' and 'custom' options use the MATLAB print command to resize the figure. If the figure is too large to fit legibly in the specified space, the print command crops the snapshot image. To avoid cropping, you can set Scaling to 'none' and use the reporter specified by the Snapshot property to size the axes image. Because this reporter reduces the size of the text with the rest of the image, a user might need to zoom the image to discern fine detail. See Resize Figure Snapshot Image.

Height — Height of snapshot image

character vector | string scalar

Height of snapshot image, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, '2in' specifies two inches. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Example: '2in'

Width — Width of snapshot image

character vector | string scalar

Width of snapshot image, specified as a character vector or string scalar that consists of a number followed by an abbreviation for a unit of measurement. For example, '2in' specifies two inches. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Example: '3in'

PreserveBackgroundColor — Preserve axes background color

false (default) | true

Preserve the axes background color in the snapshot, specified as true or false. If PreserveBackgroundColor is true, the background color of the snapshot is the same as the background color of the axes. If PreserveBackgroundColor is false, the background color of the axes image is white.

TemplateSrc — Source of template for this reporter

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar | reporter or report | DOM document or document part

Source of the template for this reporter, specified as one of these options:

• Character vector or string scalar that specifies the path of the file that contains the template for this reporter

• Reporter or report whose template is used for this reporter or whose template library contains the template for this reporter

• DOM document or document part whose template is used for this reporter or whose template library contains the template for this reporter

The specified template must be the same type as the report to which this reporter is appended. For example, for a Microsoft^® Word report, TemplateSrc must be a Word reporter template. If the TemplateSrc property is empty, this reporter uses the default reporter template for the output type of the report.

TemplateName — Name of template for this reporter

character vector | string scalar

Name of template for this reporter, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The template for this reporter must be in the template library of the template source (TemplateSrc) for this reporter.

LinkTarget — Hyperlink target for this reporter

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar | mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget object

Hyperlink target for this reporter, specified as a character vector or string scalar that specifies the link target ID or as an mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget object. A character vector or string scalar value is converted to a LinkTarget object. The link target immediately precedes the content of this reporter in the output report.

Methods

Public Methods

getSnapshotImage	Get axes image path
mlreportgen.report.Axes.createTemplate	Create axes reporter template
mlreportgen.report.Axes.customizeReporter	Create class derived from axes reporter class
mlreportgen.report.Axes.getClassFolder	Get location of folder containing mlreportgen.report.Axes class definition file
copy	Create copy of reporter object and make deep copies of certain property values
getImpl	Get implementation of reporter

Examples

Add an Axes Image to Report

This example shows how to add an axes image to a report and set the axes image caption and dimensions.

import mlreportgen.report.*

Create a PDF report and chapter.

rpt = Report("Add Axis Figure", "pdf");
chapter = Chapter("Axes");

Create data and a set of axes for the plot.

ax = axes(Position=[0.1 0.1 0.7 0.7]);
x1 = linspace(0,10,100);
y1 = sin(x1);
plot(ax,x1,y1);

Create an axes reporter by using mlreportgen.report.Axes.

axesRpt = Axes(ax);

Use the custom scaling options to set the height and width of the image to be four inches.

axesRpt.Scaling = "custom";
axesRpt.Height = "4in";
axesRpt.Width = "4in";

Add the axes reporter to the chapter and the chapter to the report.

append(chapter,axesRpt);
add(rpt,chapter);

Close the report and view it.

close(rpt);
rptview(rpt);

Version History

Introduced in R2021b