MATLAB plots in LyX

Question

I am very new to LyX or LaTeX, so I do not want to complicate the process. So what I currently do, is saving the figure as a PDF and then attaching it. But I don't think this is a good method as the output I am getting looks like this:

Is there any easy way to do this? The settings are as follow: Placement: Here Definitely Alignment: Center

Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34386/how-to-export-matlab-figures-to-pdf-latex?rq=1 — Przemysław Scherwentke, Sep 12 '16 at 06:07
Standard PDF export from Matlab is kind of rubbish, open the PDF and see, there's probably a lot of whitespace around the plot. There are functions on the File Exchange that does it better I think, e.g. export_fig See also How to avoid large margins around Matlab plot in PDF — Torbjørn T., Sep 12 '16 at 07:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '16 at 06:46

I think what you mean is that you want the figure to be located neatly with the caption "Figure 1 My lovely MATLAB plot" under it, right ?

In that case you need to insert->float->figure

This will create a floating environment for the figure, with a caption. You should add "My MATLAB plot" there.

Then you'd want to add your figure, go to before the caption and do Insert->graphics

in the file menu add the pdf image you created

You can also scale the image by setting its width or height. After you add the plot you'll see something like this in Lyx

and when previewing you'll get the following in the pdf

Also - you should consider using eps files instead of pdf, matlab exports them just as easily and they tend to scale better

MATLAB plots in LyX

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