When nodisplay=1, the figure has to be set visible before saving and closing, otherwise it is saved as not visible and when users try to open it, the saved figure is invisible (ticket 216).

The process is so quick that the figure is closed before it is made visible on the screen, so complying with nodisplay requirements, keeping thew whole procedure behind the scenes.

matlab/dyn_saveas.m

@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ if ~exist('OCTAVE_VERSION')
         eval(['print -dpdf ' fname]);
     end
     if find(strcmp('fig',DynareOptions.graph_format))
+        if DynareOptions.nodisplay
+            set(h, 'Visible','on');
+        end
         saveas(h,[fname '.fig']);
     end
 end