How to generate the figure of subplot with consistent size?

Frank Lau asked on 28 Jan 2012

Latest activity: Answer by Daniel on 28 Jan 2012

I would like to know how to generate the figure of subplot with consistent size. This is becuase after I generate the figures of subplot from different computers (different computers have different monitor and resolution) and save them, the size of subplot in different figures appears to be different.

I think that there is command to control the size to be consistent so that I can save figures of subplot with consistent size no matter different computer is used to generate and save the figures, but I do not know that command. Does anyone know about that?

Thanks for your kind attention...

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nanren888 answered on 28 Jan 2012

Look for position properties in the figures. You can get & set them with the figure & axis handles.

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Frank Lau on 28 Jan 2012

But how about if I use some command to do so?

Because if I generate many figures, then each time I need to get & set them with the figure & axis handles and it would take a long time to do that.

Jan Simon on 28 Jan 2012

@Frank Lau: But "get" and "set" *are* commands.
You can set the size, papersize and paperposition of the figure programmatically (see "doc figure"). If the figure has a well defined size, the subplots have also.

Daniel answered on 28 Jan 2012

Before running your code, right when you start MATLAB, or added to your startup.m

x = get(0, 'DefaultFigurePosition');
set(0, 'DefaultFigurePosition', [x(1:2), 800, 600]);

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Frank Lau on 7 Feb 2012

The above commands still don't work properly. I have generated the figures from the same code by using different computer with different resolution. I still found that there are differences in the size of subplot of the figures.

When looking at properties of each subplot in two figures, I found that there are differences in the 'Outerposition' and 'Position'. I guess that some commands are needed so that 'Outerposition' and 'Position' are the same even the figures are generated from different computers. But what commands should I use in this case?

Daniel on 7 Feb 2012

Are you comparing on screen size? Are you figures identical (same axis limits and labels)?

Frank Lau on 8 Feb 2012

The axis limits and labels are the same. But the size of each subplot is different when comparing two figures generated from different computers