Question

I’m trying to save a figure in PDF format such that I don’t get extraneous white space around it, i.e. the figure should be the same size as the figure window.

I’m pretty sure that the way to do it is

figureNames = {'a', 'b', 'c'};
for i = 1:3
    set(figure(i), 'paperpositionmode', 'auto');
    print(figure(i), '-dpdf', figureNames{i})
end

But it’s not working. I’m getting as much white space as ever. Can someone enlighten me as to what’s wrong?

Answer 1

You can try “all in one” solutions for converting figures to pdf-files. I use mlf2pdf
(http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28545) and it seems to work quite well. Moreover, the quality of the produced figures is much better due to Latex typesetting of everything