Question about Figure Export Setup

I always need to modify the figure properties to fit certain requirements such as figure size, font size and line styles. However, I find it impossible for me to change the figure size via export setup after opening the plot tool.

It is very convenient to change size/rendering/fonts/lines in the export setup. But as I open plot tool to make more detailed modification, it just resize the figure and could never be changed using export setup.

I don't have such problem using 2008 version. But this really annoys me in the version afterwards. Has anyone come across this problem and how to solve it? Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Generally people work around the problem by skipping the GUI and using Oliver's contribution export_fig

Answer 2

[Matthias Will]

I had the same problem as Kakit, however I did not find use of the export_fig function to be very satisfying as the size of the exported image is controlled by the size of the plot window (at least I did not manage to set the size in export_fig, correct me if I am wrong).

The problem using the plot tool is that it is setting the 'windowStyle' property to 'docked'. So what you want to do is

set(gcf,'WindowStyle','normal');

Afterwards you can use the export setup and set the desired size.

I found this solution here. It is in german though.

https://www.gomatlab.de/figure-lsst-sich-nicht-in-der-gre-ndern-t4742.html