Thread Subject: The matter of the lost title position in the fig file

Hello,

I would simply like to change a title position and save the figure in a fig file.

Example:

plot(1,1)
h=title('test');
set(h, 'Position', [0.5, 2, 2]);
saveas(gcf, 'figure_1', 'fig');

The plot saved in the file "figure_1.fig" contains the title. The title is however located at the default position. Why is this? Is there a way to save the title position in the fig file?

Thanks,

Niels

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-8UNP4I/?solution=1-8UNP4I

Thank you. I found a workaround. Instead of saving the information in the fig file I simply modify it after I open it. This yields the same results in the context. The context is to publish the fig files in a report with the 'publish' command.

Anyway it makes no sense that Matlab figures can not save this information. Sometimes when you use subplots you need to change position of the title and labels in order to seperate these from other text objects such as axis tics. I hope this is changed in future releases of Matlab.

Does anyone else find this language from the above referenced doc. a bit of a cop-out?

"LABELS and TITLE are standard graphics objects which are supposed to be located at some specific position to justify their meaning and significance. Repositioning these objects defeats the purpose of their existence."

My question is, why allow L & T to be moved at all if moving defeats the purpose of their existence? I am really surprised by this wording from TMW.

"Matt Fig" <spamanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message <hdeja6$9bu$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Does anyone else find this language from the above referenced doc. a bit of a cop-out?
>
> "LABELS and TITLE are standard graphics objects which are supposed to be located at some specific position to justify their meaning and significance. Repositioning these objects defeats the purpose of their existence."
>
> My question is, why allow L & T to be moved at all if moving defeats the purpose of their existence? I am really surprised by this wording from TMW.


I agree the text needs rephrasing.

I have personally repositioned labels and title on several occasions, to make better use of the available space between my axes and the surrounding figure components. Another typical case is when I have textual tick labels - having the axes labels on the same side of the tick labels looks horrible, so I simply reposition the general xlabel/ylabel to the other side of the axes box.

Just my $0.02...

Yair Altman
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com