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From: "David Doria" <daviddoria@gmail.com>
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Subject: figure size in pixels?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:32:02 +0000 (UTC)
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I want to save a figure to a file with a particular size in
pixels.  I do this:

figure('units','pixels','outerposition',[0 0 800 450]);
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto');
print('-djpeg', filename);

but the resulting file is 1237x575!!

What have I done wrong?

Thanks,

Dave