Matlab 2014a Mac Matlab R2014a For Mac
I am having a similar problem. I recently switched from a PC to a Mac (OS 10.9) and am not able to copy and paste decent looking figures from Matlab into Powerpoint. I looked into changing the renderer and found the 'zbuffer' and 'opengl' both work when using 'Copy Figure', but both produce very poor quality images when they are pasted into Powerpoint. Bad enough that I wouldn't want to show anybody those figures, which I'm pretty sure is the purpose of a Powerpoint presentation. The 'painters' renderer does not work at all.

It does not give an error, but it seems like its not copying anything to the clipboard at all either. Copy figure stopped working with Lyx on OSX 10.8 (Mavericks) and 10.9 (Yosemite) in at least R2014a and R2014b. Copy figure has alway worked fine with Lyx at least to R2011b. Just copy figure in Matlab and then EditPast Special in Lyx in insert the figure in Lyx and make a copy on disk at the same time. Any Idea how to get this to work again? Copy figure seems to work in Word and Powerpoint though.
Copy paste of pictures form Powerpoint to Lyx also works just fine. It seems that at least something was broken by the Mathworks in their new release. Does anyone have a solution to this?
I try to install Matlab R2014a on Mac 10.9.4, which is a Virtual Machine in my Windows 7. After open InstallForMacOSX.app, the logo things appear for a while, and then it says: Install Matlab quit unexpectedly. Problem details are: Process: java 427 Path: /tmp/./java Identifier: net.java.openjdk.cmd Version: 1.0 (1.0) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: sh 389 Responsible: sh 358 User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2014-09-08 01:02:34.324 -0700 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: 7FAD146F-0E07-23E8-AB07-4C6408874BB4 Crashed Thread: 19 Java: Java2D Queue Flusher Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x000000 VM Regions Near 0: - TEXT 400 68K r-x/rwx SM=COW /tmp/. Application Specific Information: abort called. In the log file, the report is: A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fff8bdeefc8, pid=427, tid=40455 JRE version: 7.011-b21 Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (23.6-b04 mixed mode bsd-amd64 compressed oops) Problematic frame: C libGL.dylib+0x1fc8 glGetString+0xf Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try 'ulimit -c unlimited' before starting Java again If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.

See problematic frame for where to report the bug. Both of them are of a huge length. I'm sorry I'm not familiar with Java things.
I wonder what is going on here? I already install Java SE and JavaforOSX. I was having a similar problem installing R2014a on a Mac OS virtual machine. However, I got it working by doing something like this.
Matlab 2014a Mac Matlab R2014a For Mac Os
Matlab 2014a Mac Matlab R2014a For Mac Os X
1) Download the latest java development kit from the oracle website (It might work with the java runtime environment on it's own also, if you don't want the entire JDK) 2) Run the matlab installer from a terminal, specifying the location of the new JRE. See also for more details, but the command for me (from within the MATLAB install directory) was./install -javadir /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.020.jdk/Contents/Home/jre At this point the installer worked basically as per normal, although there were errors with the Symbolic Math Toolbox, so I deleted the (faulty) installation, and ran the installer again as above, but without installing this toolbox. 3) Matlab didn't seem to open from the normal Applications shortcut, so I had to run it from a terminal and specify an alternative java virtual machine. See and for more details. Note, you can export the MATLABJAVA environmental variable in your.bashprofile file, and you will need to restart/open a new terminal before the changes to your bash shell have an effect.