How do I create a report (.doc or .txt or PDF) with Matlab WITHOUT the report generator?

I need to output a clinical report after some image analysis and we don't have access to the report generator with student software.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Publish it!

doc publish

[Golnar]

How can I include the figures that are produced in the code in the pdf? and exclude some portions of the code from being printed?

publish('clinicalreport.m','pdf')

[Sean de Wolski]

Use sections, i.e. two % signs followed by a space:

imshow(magic(5))
surf(peaks)

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

You can use ActiveX to control MATLAB, but I think it would be extraordinarily difficult to create a nicely formatted document this way. Just simple text would be fine/easy. Formatting and setting margins a little more difficult, and doing things like figures with captions, tables, equations, etc. would be pretty difficult.