Thread Subject: Matlab gives negative values to the axis width and height when saving a figure

Hello,
I'm trying to get the same axis Position in two different
figures with different axis labels and tick labels. To my
surprise, matlab changes the Position property of the axes
in the figure when saving to an eps or png file (this
happens when I use large font size), sometimes giving
negative values for the axis width and/or height, which then
gives an error when I try to assign them to the Position
property of the axis of another figure.
For example:

fh=figure;
plot.....
....
ca=get(fh,'CurrentAxes');
pos_vect=get(ca,'Position')
saveas(fh,figure_name,'png');
get(ca,'Position')

returns

pos_vect =

    0.2154 0.1435 0.6896 0.7815

ans =

    0.8635 0.7739 -2.3404 -2.0152

I don't have any ResizeFcn defined, and setting
'PaperPositionMode' to 'auto' doesn't help either.
I can use the Position property before saving for assigning
to the axis of another figure, but the result is not as
expected (the axis of the saved figure has actually been
resized by the saveas command).
I guess that my problem could be related to the last
(unanswered) question in this thread

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/151519

I'm using Matlab 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3
Thank you very much and best regards

Xavi

Hi
Try to use hgexport instead.

"Xavi Alonso" <gargle777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<g7sa0f$g06$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get the same axis Position in two different
> figures with different axis labels and tick labels. To my
> surprise, matlab changes the Position property of the axes
> in the figure when saving to an eps or png file (this
> happens when I use large font size), sometimes giving
> negative values for the axis width and/or height, which
then
> gives an error when I try to assign them to the Position
> property of the axis of another figure.
> For example:
>
> fh=figure;
> plot.....
> ....
> ca=get(fh,'CurrentAxes');
> pos_vect=get(ca,'Position')
> saveas(fh,figure_name,'png');
> get(ca,'Position')
>
> returns
>
> pos_vect =
>
> 0.2154 0.1435 0.6896 0.7815
>
> ans =
>
> 0.8635 0.7739 -2.3404 -2.0152
>
> I don't have any ResizeFcn defined, and setting
> 'PaperPositionMode' to 'auto' doesn't help either.
> I can use the Position property before saving for
assigning
> to the axis of another figure, but the result is not as
> expected (the axis of the saved figure has actually been
> resized by the saveas command).
> I guess that my problem could be related to the last
> (unanswered) question in this thread
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/
view_thread/151519
>
> I'm using Matlab 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3
> Thank you very much and best regards
>
> Xavi