Question: subplot axes label cut off (activepositionproperty problem?)

2012 2 21
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Hi! I want to make a subplot such that two plots are side by side. The resulting figure needs to be small enough to fit in my document, and in the eps format. However, when I try to resize the figure past a certain size, the axes x labels are cut off like so :
this only happens when you resize it small enough. Also, it doesn't happen with the 'plot' command, I can resize as much as i like and the axes labels are maintained in the figure. My understanding is that activepositionproperty governs this sort of thing, and that it should be set to 'outerposition', but I've tried forcing that and it doesn't have any effect. Also, it doesn't seem to matter if you manually set the papersize and paperposition and then export, or whether you change the figure size using WYSIWYG on screen and then exporting. Would be grateful for any ideas to work around or fix this problem! I'm sure it didn't used to happen on earlier versions of matlab

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Jan
Jan 2012-2-21
"Earlier versions of Matlab" than which version?
Please post what you have done exactly with the PaperPosition and the OuterPosition. These details are important and actually the should solve the problem. Therefore it is necessary to understand, what you have tried already.
Paul B
Paul B 2012-2-21
Sorry Jan, I did put the version in the question but it doesn't seem to display the answer I gave. It's version R2010a but I don't have access to a later version to test it.
To answer your question, this code is a test to recreate the problem...
ax1 = subplot(121);
plot(1:10);
set(ax1,'ActivePositionProperty','outerposition');
xlabel('xlabel')
ylabel('ylabel')
ax2 = subplot(122);
plot(1:10);
xlabel('xlabel')
ylabel('ylabel')
set(ax2,'ActivePositionProperty','outerposition');
...and then try resizing your figure a bit on screen, if you go small enough the x label is cut off. I tried setting paperpositionmode to 'auto' and File -> save as eps, obviously it just prints what is on the screen so the x label is cut off. I also tried setting..
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','manual','PaperUnits','inches','PaperPosition',[0 0 6 2])
print -deps figure.eps
...and this still cuts off the x label. Making it 6 by 4 just about includes the x label, but then the graphs are stretched beyond what I want. I'm curious if this happens to anyone else !
Paul B
Paul B 2012-2-21
By the way I've managed to test it with matlab r2007b, and i can confirm that there is no problem with the xlabel no matter how small you size the figure. So it seems to me this is a problem with how recent versions of matlab handle the activepositionproperty within the subplot environment, unless I'm doing something stupid!

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Jason P
Jason P 2012-2-28

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I have been having the same problem but just got around it by "hacking" the axis position for each of the subplots:
v = get(gca,'Position');
set(gca,'Position',[v(1) v(2)*1.5 v(3:4)])
and you can adjust the values v(2) and v(4) to be whatever looks best for you.

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Paul B
Paul B 2012-4-21
Ok thanks Jason! This is a good workaround but I still think the original problem is a bug. Will get round to reporting it one day!

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Shep Bryan
Shep Bryan 2021-1-29

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I have found a pretty decent work around. When you make your xlabel, add an extra blank line like this:
xlabel({'my label', ''})
That way the extra line gets cut off, but the real label is preserved.

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