@OP:

>> Please let me know how should I modify the code to make this function working?

This is typically a question you can ask on the help mailing list (help@octave.org). You'll get more audience and more Windows users who can help you if you really want to pursue this activex approach.

From your script I understand that, in absence of a file name and given a suitable device (meta, pdf and bitmap I guess [1]) Matlab sends the output to the clipboard, as if the -clipboard option had been passed.

Unfortunately the -clipboard option is not implemented, and you won't be able to use this copy-paste approach from Octave.

I'll update the title to make it a feature request for the -clipboard option.

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/print.html#bukyb6e-1-clipboardformat

My problem was due to missing fig2dev. Now, depending on which version of pstoedit I have  I get different errors.

It looks like we have our annual emf bugfest.

May be we should depreciate emf format and direct people to use
 other formats (e.g. svg) and external programs (e.g. inkscape?) to convert to emf, if they really need it.

Dmitri.
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Pantxo,

Does

plot(1:10)
print "t1.emf"

work for you? I do not get any warnings/errors, but the t1.emf is
garbage -- contains only:

cat t1.emf
The driver for the selected format cannot write to standard output because it writes binary data

(this is with recent 6.0.1)

Dmitri.
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Thanks for your report. You did not provide a file name so the print function assumes you want to send the figure to a printer (this is explained early in "help print"). In that case you should use either -dps or -dpdf (if your printer supports pdf) or specific Ghostscript formats designed for printers (see e.g. [1]), hence the cryptic error message.

Can I close this report or do you think the doc or the error message could be more clear?