Matlab: Compile all open figures as a single pdf

As part of my network status log processing script, I needed a way to export weekly overview plots in a format that could be used to convey problems to other people at a glance.  The larger body of the script is a block-mode kludge which does the actual log file processing and plotting in whatever manner I choose.  The final block is a brief bit which rolls the current figure windows into a single pdf.

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%% print plots to pdfs; use pdfshuffler to cat or fix rotations   filebasename='/home/ikilledsuperman/plot_%d.pdf' outputname='/home/ikilledsuperman/outputlogfile.pdf'   m=length(findall(0,'type','figure')); filelist=cell(m,1); for n=1:1:m     figure(n);     set(n,'PaperUnits','normalized');     set(n,'PaperPosition', [0 0 1 1]);  %fit to page     filelist(n)=cellstr(sprintf(filebasename,n));     print(gcf, '-dpdf', sprintf(filebasename,n)); end   delete(outputname) append_pdfs(outputname, filelist{:}); delete(filelist{:})

As the comment says, pdfshuffler can be used to put the finishing touches on any generated pdfs.  Close any unneeded figure windows with 'close all'.  This script makes use of append_pdfs.