Is there a way to plot to a file while in a parfor loop?

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Hello,
I have a MATLAB program I'm running in parallel. I understand that I can't use a worker process to plot to the screen. But, I'm curious, is it possible to use a worker process to plot directly to a file?
Thanks,
Mark

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Jing
Jing on 28 Mar 2013
Edited: Jing on 28 Mar 2013
You can plot in parfor, it's just you won't see it, but the handle is still there. Then you can use saveas to save it to a file.
parfor i=1:5
figure(i)
plot(rand(i*10,1));
saveas(gcf,['temp' num2str(i) '.jpg']);
end
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Mathias
Mathias on 7 Feb 2019
Edited: Mathias on 7 Feb 2019
I tried the code, but got the following error:
% Error using validate (line 162)
% Printing of uicontrols is not supported on this platform.
%
% Error in print (line 67)
% pj = validate( pj );
%
% Error in saveas (line 181)
% print( h, name, ['-d' dev{i}] )
%
% Error in Untitled (line 1)
% parfor i=1:5
Using Matlab 2017b. Any solution for this?
Thanks in Advance
Edit: Found another examle of this with figure() instead of figure(var). Thats the solution.

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