Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Fig file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to pnm in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.fig -c "convert to pnm" (how).
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Let your AI agent convert MATLAB Figure to PNM
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the MATLAB Figure files in my Downloads folder to PNM”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.fig -c "convert to pnm"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert MATLAB Figure to PNM?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.fig -c "convert to pnm" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
A FIG file is a figure saved from MATLAB. It stores the plot itself - axes, lines, markers, surfaces, images, text, legends and colorbars - inside a MAT-file, so MATLAB can open and edit it again.
The PNM (Portable Any Map Image) file format is a subset of the broader Netpbm format, designed for storing various types of digital images. It acts as an umbrella term for three specific types of grayscale, color, and black-and-white images, represented by PBM (Portable Bitmap), PGM (Portable Graymap), and PPM (Portable Pixmap) formats respectively. PNM files are known for their simplicity and ease of conversion to other image formats.
