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I'm using false-color visualizations for some HDR images in MATLAB, but with large images I find that the colorbar labels get cut off.

In the MWE below, colorbar labels (and I think some of the colorbar too) have been cut off when I print to PDF for inclusion in LaTeX. I've uploaded the output I'm getting here.

Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks.

MATLAB Code:

h=2304; w=3072;
y=(1:1:2304)';
x=1:1:3072;
z=y*x;

figure();
imshow(z,[]);
colormap(jet);
colorbar;

print(gcf, 'test.pdf', '-dpdf');
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  • It works fine with Matlab R2010b on Linux. Maybe you could upload your test.pdf and also add a MWE example of your .tex file to show how you include the PDF into your document?
    – Jake
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 14:13
  • @Jake: thanks for the reply. I've updated my post with a link to the output file I'm getting and slightly different code just to make the file smaller; the problem is still the same. Thanks.
    – SSilk
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 16:53
  • Try issuing set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','Auto','PaperType','a4') before you print the image.
    – Jake
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 17:37
  • @Jake: Just tried that, it didn't work. It actually cut off more stuff than before, including a big chunk of the image.
    – SSilk
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 21:19

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Worked fine on 2008b here, but the bounding box is wrong for what people normally expect on an embeddable graph. MATLAB has always treated PDF export as a special case of printing to a regular printer, when it should be analogous to making an EPS.

What I normally do for LaTeX is create an EPS file, and then convert it to PDF. I wrote a pdfprint.m file some time back to automate that. It should work on any Windows or UNIX-like system with MATLAB and epstopdf (standard with LaTeX). You can download it here.

Also, the pdflatex in TeX Live 2010 can automatically convert EPS graphics to PDF when needed.

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