Legend position change after printing

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Junyi
Junyi on 2 Oct 2015
I draw a bar figure and set the legend using
leg = legend('w/s QOS','w/o QOS','Location','best');
And then I try to save the figure using print
fig2.PaperPositionMode = 'manual';
fig2.PaperUnits = 'points';
fig2.PaperPosition = ([0 0 1920 1080]);
print('./figure/delay_avg','-djpeg');
The following figure is what I have in Matlab window
and the figure below is the figure saved in the file
As you can see, the position of the legend changes. Is this a bug of Matlab? I'm using R2015a

Answers (6)

Brian Pierre
Brian Pierre on 14 Jun 2016
I have the same issue in 2014b. A big problem for a large automated report with thousands of figures.

Abhinav Gupta
Abhinav Gupta on 21 May 2022
Edited: Abhinav Gupta on 21 May 2022
This problem still exists in the R2021b. It would be great if this could be fixed!

Eric Delaunay
Eric Delaunay on 19 Jan 2023
Found a workaround :
l = findobj(gcf, 'type', 'legend');
set(l, 'Location', 'none');
before printing. It disables auto layout for legend and uses its current 'position' for printing. It works for me in R2017b.

Rohit Kudva
Rohit Kudva on 22 Oct 2015
Hi Junyi,
I work for MathWorks and I have forwarded this feedback to the appropriate product team.
Regards,
Rohit

Thorsten
Thorsten on 15 Jun 2016
Use
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto');
before printing. It works for me (R1015b).

Mark Kerssenfischer
Mark Kerssenfischer on 2 Dec 2022
Indeed, I just ran into the same issue in Matlab R2021b.
Please fix it!

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