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output a pdf

David Doria — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:52:03 -0400

When I produce a figure and then do "File -> SaveAs" and
choose pdf, the pdf that matlab makes is too big - some of
the right side of the plot is chopped off in the pdf file.
Is there a way to overcome this?

Thanks,

David

Re: output a pdf

David Doria — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:05:04 -0400

I found "File - Export Setup" - it let me change the width
to 5 inches , which fixed the inital problem. However, I am
trying to put this figure into a latex document, and it
seems matlab has added white space to fill up an 8.5x11
piece of paper instead of just using the 5" that I
specified. Is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks,

David

Re: output a pdf

Richard Quist — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:45:35 -0400

David Doria wrote:
> I found "File - Export Setup" - it let me change the width
> to 5 inches , which fixed the inital problem. However, I am
> trying to put this figure into a latex document, and it
> seems matlab has added white space to fill up an 8.5x11
> piece of paper instead of just using the 5" that I
> specified. Is there a way to prevent this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

Something along this line may do the trick - assuming you want to the
output to be 5x5, set both the papersize AND the paperposition
properties on the figure:

   set(gcf, 'papersize', [5 5]);
   set(gcf, 'paperposition', [0 0 5 5]);
   print -dpdf test5x5.pdf

There's also my fillPage File Exchange submission
(http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=16566&objectType=FILE)
that helps with this kind of operation:
   oldSettings = fillpage(gcf, 'margins', [0 0 0 0], 'papersize', [5 5]);
   print -dpdf test5x5.pdf
   set(gcf, oldSettings); % restore previous settings

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Richard Quist
Software Developer
The MathWorks, Inc.

Re: output a pdf

David Doria — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:38:01 -0400

beautiful! that'll do it!