How to make circle marker round and axes and labels black in vector graphics export?

In previous versions of Matlab, saving a figure with point ('.') or circle ('o') markers produced round vector objects. Then in 2014b these became collections of wedges and line segments and now in 2015b the points are round but circles (and filled circles) are decagons. Is there a way to make the circles round again?

Also, with 2014b-present the default text and axes colors in plots save as gray in .eps and .pdf. Explicitly making them black (rather than black by default) makes them dark gray. Inexplicably, black legend text remains black when saved, highlighting the gray-ness of the axes and labels. Is there a way to make everything export as black again?

I am running 2015b in MacOSX 10.10 and wanting to export matlab figures as vector graphics into Adobe Illustrator in preparation for publication.

[Richard Quist]

Hannah, I think you should MathWorks Technical Support about black/gray text issue. What you're experiencing doesn't sound right and they should be able to help identify what is happening.

I would suggest putting together a code sample that creates the kind of figure you're using, and that you provide the specific steps you use to save the pdf and eps files (are you using File->Save As? or calling the print function directly? or ...). It would also help to include one of the eps files that shows the problem.

The issue with the markers is known. Technical Support may be able to point you to a bug report that you can monitor for updates.

[Petar Lambrev]

The same issues on Matlab 2014b and later for Windows.