laprint and auto-pst-pdf: A winning combination!

WOW.  I just finished installing/figuring out how to use the laprint function for matlab, to simply export research-quality figures into my latex documents.  I won’t spend a whole lot of time rehashing the directions, because installation and usage were pretty straightforward:

• Put laprint in the matlab path.
• Use it to generate a picture, with some text strings that will eventually be parsed by TeX.  I had to include the command: set(0,’defaulttextinterpreter’,'none’) in order to prevent matlab from messing everything up.
• Install psfrag and auto-pst-pdf into your TeX distribution path (I use MacTeX and TeXShop with a default install, so this is just /usr/texbin for the .sty files and /usr/local/bin for the .pro file from psfrag).
• Copy the .tex and .eps files that laprint generates into the working directory of your tex file.
• Typeset a-la the example given in the directions.

So simple, even a child with sudo privileges could do it.  Granting a child sudo is generally a questionable thing to do, however…

-n

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