exportgraphics: adding a margin
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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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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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