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dormant
dormant on 21 Jun 2021
Answered: dormant on 8 Oct 2024 at 13:20
Is it possible to add a margin to figures saved using the exportgraphics function?
It crops a tad too tightly for my needs.

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David Hasin
David Hasin on 7 Oct 2024 at 15:50
Edited: David Hasin on 7 Oct 2024 at 16:07
Hey there, you can use 'padding' in the exportgraphics option, but it is available only in matlab online 2024a. For example:
exportgraphics(ax,"figurepadding.png","Padding","figure")
or
exportgraphics(ax,"figurepadding.png","Padding",20)
See documentation:

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Paul Wintz
Paul Wintz on 15 Sep 2021
Edited: Paul Wintz on 18 Nov 2021
You can force exportgraphics to export the entire figure by drawing an white rectange around it with the command
annotation('rectangle',[0 0 1 1],'Color','w');
To adjust the margins, change the dimensions [0 0 1 1].
As noted by @David Walwark in the comments, the plot will not be interactive while it is annotated. To restore interactivity, delete the annotation after calling exportgraphics.
a = annotation('rectangle',[0 0 1 1],'Color','w');
% -> Save figure here <-
delete(a)
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Bill Tubbs
Bill Tubbs on 23 Mar 2023
Edited: Bill Tubbs on 23 Mar 2023
This didn't work for me. Presumably when doing 2 subplots you need to apply this annotation to each subplot?
I tried adjusting the margins to [-0.05 -0.05 1.05 1.05] and it raises:
Error using annotation (line 116)
Position values must be between 0 and 1.
Alexander Moody
Alexander Moody on 28 Aug 2023
Had the same issue... this worked for me, but I had to change the color of the annotation rectangle to something other than white for it to work.

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Kiran Felix Robert
Kiran Felix Robert on 24 Jun 2021
Hi Dormant,
If you are trying to export multiple sub-images/plots onto a single figure, you can explore the tiledlayout to introduce spacing using the 'TileSpacing' Name-Value pair.
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Paul Wintz
Paul Wintz on 15 Sep 2021
This doesn't answer the question. How do we adjust the margins on the outside of a figure saved with exportgraphics?
Bill Tubbs
Bill Tubbs on 23 Mar 2023
This worked for me. When I did my 2-plot figure using tiledlayout instead of subplots the outer margin was significantly wider.

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dormant
dormant on 8 Oct 2024 at 13:20
Many thanks to you all. I gave up on this approach as I needed to specify sizes exactly. So there's a new question here: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2158290-specify-plot-box-position-for-tiled-layout?s_tid=srchtitle

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