text borders in a plot
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Is there anyway to plot text, and have it such that the text is, say, white, but it has a black border around itself (ie the black is the letters, not a box!)
what I tried was first printing the text in black, in size 10.4, and then overlaid white, in size 10, but it doesn't come out right.
in case anyone is still at a loss, I want something like this:
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Adam Danz
on 11 May 2021
Himanshu Saxena's answer moved here as a comment
I am also looking for the solution to the raised question.
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Jan
on 2 Aug 2013
No this is not possible in Matlab.
You could write the text to an empty axes, capture the screen area, use the image processing toolbox to detect the edges, apply a method to grow the regions, capture the screen again, and post a cropped image instead of the text. Does not sound convenient.
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Jan
on 2 Aug 2013
What about using a tight border in the background color of the axes? Or an annotation, which is places outside the graphics with only an arrow to the concerned location?
Fabricio Castro
on 22 Mar 2018
You can plot a bold text with a white font color, and plot the same but unbold black text over the early one. I think this is the only way to accomplish what you looking for.
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Jan
on 22 Mar 2018
In bold face the width of the characters is increased, such that it is unlikely, that the characters will match.
Adam Danz
on 11 May 2021
That's what this answer demonstrates but as Jan said, there are restrictions. Using fixed width font helps.
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