Error copying a figure to clipboard

Dear all,

I would like to copy a matlab figure to my clipboard so I can paste it in Powerpoint as a vector graphic. This is usually very simple, I just choose "metafile" in the cop options. More recently I tried the same thing getting this error message:

Error using print (line 82)

Unable to copy the figure to the clipboard. Increasing the Java Heap Size setting in the MATLAB preferences may

help; otherwise try saving to a file or choose a different clipboard format.

Error in matlab.graphics.internal.copyFigureHelper (line 158)

print(argsToPrint{:});

Error in editmenufcn (line 69)

matlab.graphics.internal.copyFigureHelper(hfig)

Error while evaluating Menu Callback.

I followed the suggestion and increased the Java thingy, up to 4 GB, still same problem. The weird thing is, it's actually a rather simple image of only 4 MB. I'd be happy to upload the .fig file here if possible.

Any hints what the problem might be?

Thanks,

Toby

[Qian lix]

Hello Toby:

I have the same problem as you with the same feedback.

Increasing memory won't solve this problem either

my matlab version is 2020a ,how about yours? I'm not sure this would have happened to an earlier version.

I'm using an iteration graph of variable size, the interesting thing is that the problem arises when you increase the number of iterations to a certain value.

I'm looking for other solutions.

Have you made any progress of solving this question?

[Sai Bhargav Avula]

can you provide your OS and MATLAB version details?

[Rahul Ramanujam]

I have also the same problem cannot find copy figure in edit. OS:ubuntu 20, Matlab 2020

[Sinmyong Park]

I also have same problem. I use OS win10, matlab R2018a. I just want to copy surf figure(1024×20 double) to ppt file. I get same feedback above. So I try to copy other surf figure(2048×128 double) with different data and document path, then there are no problem. ..then, i move first one have a problem to other directory and get same problem. I cant find the cause.

Answer 1

[Chihang Yang]

I also met this problem in MATLAB 2020a.

But the problem is gone when I copy the same figure in MATLAB 2018b.