colorbar problem in 2014b when printing pdf
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When I make a colorbar and print as pdf, it has an artifact that looks like a white dashed line. I think it is where two parts of the colorbar image meet. Any ideas for a work around?
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print('-dpdf','test.pdf')
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Christopher Benwell
on 19 Oct 2016
I also have this problem. Has anyone found a workaround for it? It is quite incredible how often Mathworks manage to introduce new problems with their updates.
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Jan
on 28 Dec 2014
Edited: Jan
on 28 Dec 2014
Is this a problem of Matlab or does it depend on the PDF viewer? See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/15388-artifacts-in-figures-exported-as-pdf-from-matlab .
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Travis
on 8 Jan 2015
Beautiful!!! First time I have found someone actually point the way to the fix. Thank you.
Leo OfNature
on 18 Mar 2019
Edited: Leo OfNature
on 18 Mar 2019
Sorry, but fixing the pdf viewer is not a satisfactory answer, given that that most pdf viewer are configured by default to make this deffect appears... WRONG answer!
Bing Yuan
on 31 May 2016
In matlab2016, adding the following line removes the dashed line in the colorbar, although the size of the output file changes:
set(gcf, 'Renderer', 'opengl') % remove grids for contourf and the dashed line in colorbar when saving pdf/eps. in matlab2016a.
It might also work for matlab2014b.
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Leo OfNature
on 18 Mar 2019
Yes, but the quality get so poor that it doesn't worth anymore to export as a vecrorized graphics...
Michael Tippett
on 22 Sep 2016
And I've confirmed that Matlab 2016a still has the artifact if vector graphics are used (no embedded bitmap). Sad.
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