RE: removing text from graph

[financial engineer]

> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:33:12 -0700
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: FW: removing text from graph
>
> If you don't have the handle, and you ultimately want the image without text
> as an eps file (I guess you could save as eps, then convert to something
> else with GIMP), it's easy. Go ahead and save the image:
>
> print(figure_handle,[filename,'.eps'],'-deps','-color');
>
> then open the eps file in a text editor and find the text and remove it and
> save. For example, I saved a plot generated with this on it:
>
>
> title('JAH-1024'),text(0,0,'JAH-1227')
>
> in the eps file I see and remove
>
> [ [({}) 200.0 0.0 true true 0 (JAH-1024)]
> ] -66.7 MCshow
>
> and
>
> [ [({}) 200.0 0.0 true true 0 (JAH-1227)]
> ] -66.7 MLshow
>
> The results (as far as I can tell) is an identical image with the text
> removed.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Andrew
>
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thanks Andrew, that does .... I have not used GIMP before though, so it is good to know that capability....Bobby